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Chinese President Xi Jinping
DC Edit | Spark of hope as Xi, Biden meet
Any major shift in power dynamics between the two powers may be just an illusion.
18 Nov 2023 12:05 AM
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | 61 years after 1962, be alert for fresh Chinese mischief
India’s much-maligned law enforcement agencies are rendering yeoman’s service to the nation on the China front.
20 Oct 2023 12:10 AM
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Did eco focus, Xi absence spell Delhi G-20 success?
President Joe Biden: “It would be nice to have Xi Jinping here but the summit is going well”.
15 Sep 2023 12:05 AM
K.C. Singh | G-20’s outcome uncertain amid multiple challenges
This is the first G-20 summit that Xi Jinping is skipping.
08 Sep 2023 12:05 AM
Saeed Naqvi | Will absence of Xi, Putin hover over G-20 like Banquo’s ghost?
The G-20 summit’s outcome and the crucial bilateral visit will be determined not by what happens but how the Western media plays it up.
08 Sep 2023 12:05 AM
AA Edit | Xi to skip summit, but G-20 will not miss him
What remains for India is an opportunity to seal a greater strategic understanding with the US, which it sorely needs
06 Sep 2023 12:00 AM
Looking forward to India trip: Biden
China makes it final:Xi not to join G20 summit
05 Sep 2023 12:36 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India-China peace vital for Brics to acquire global role
As India tries to retain its influence, China crowed over the bonus of new friends and proteges.
31 Aug 2023 12:02 AM
K.C. Singh | China playing puppeteer as Brics expands, G-20 looms
Crucially, the group’s most important economies are China and India, bitter adversaries that rarely cooperate on anything: Jim O' Neill
28 Aug 2023 12:05 AM
DC Edit | Frank talk by Modi, Xi on LAC issue welcome
To serve its greater strategic aims in its BRICS presence, India will be competing against the clear enough intentions of China & Russia
26 Aug 2023 12:19 AM
India, China Disagree on Who Sought Bilateral Meet
It's worth recalling that India has consistently maintained that China's buildup of troops at the LAC in the Ladakh sector in 2020
26 Aug 2023 12:05 AM
AA Edit | Face up to obdurate China
There is little that India can do now except to pursue its strengthening the infrastructure along the border
18 Aug 2023 12:05 AM
AA Edit | Stand up to China’s silly games
It is time India stood up to China and called its bluff.
29 Jul 2023 12:10 AM
AA Edit | Wang’s return won’t change ties
A familiar figure, Mr Wang Yi has been in the centre of China’s dealings with many countries, including India
27 Jul 2023 12:10 AM
Sanjaya Baru | Modi’s Mission America: The dragon in the room
Can US-India “co-production” eventually help make India truly “atma nirbhar”?
26 Jun 2023 12:12 AM
Claude Arpi | China in suspense as Xi, 70, has junked succession plan
What will happen if the supreme boss goes?
15 Jun 2023 12:10 AM
Syed Ata Hasnain | Global shift? China is on a geopolitical overdrive
What is for India in all this renewed Chinese geopolitical vigour.
01 Apr 2023 12:11 AM
Saeed Naqvi | Vietnam joins Sino-Russian orbit, in a huge blow to West
The Beijing-Moscow pair has attracted new adherents, whereas the Western camp is restive.
26 Feb 2023 1:43 AM
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After 60 years: Beijing still focused on targeting Delhi
While China has started issuing visas to a few Indian students to return to their classes in that country, there are many thousands waiting
20 Oct 2022 1:24 AM
Full control over Hong Kong achieved: Xi Jinping at Communist party Congress meet
Xi said China has also waged a major struggle against Taiwan separatism and is determined and able to oppose territorial integrity
16 Oct 2022 12:01 PM
PM, in a swipe at Pak at SCO, pitches for transit rights, better connectivity
No handshake or conversation between Modi and Xi, China promises to back India's SCO presidency
17 Sep 2022 8:50 AM
Indonesia leader says Putin and Xi to attend G20 summit: Report
Jakarta has come under Western pressure to exclude Putin from the G20 gathering after announcing in April he had been invited
19 Aug 2022 12:09 PM
K.C. Singh | How absolutist policy can make a nation less secure
Taking the cue from Jia, one needs to ask whether viewing the region through the prism of 'absolute national security' is any longer useful?
24 Jan 2022 11:47 PM
Biden and Xi meet virtually as US-China chasm widens
The two leaders know each other well, having traveled together when both were vice presidents
16 Nov 2021 10:20 AM
China's president Xi warns against 'Cold War' in Indo-Pacific
Xi also said the region should make sure to keep supply lines functioning and to continue liberalising trade and investment
11 Nov 2021 10:18 AM
K.C. Singh | Amid China power games, stop divisiveness at home
The diplomatic jostling has increased between India and China after the in-person Quad summit hosted by US President Joe Biden in September
19 Oct 2021 1:25 AM
China appoints new army commander to head troops along Indian border
The tensions have eased to some extent with troops from both sides moving out from the Galwan Valley, Pangong Tso and Gogra
07 Sep 2021 12:00 PM
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is many things, but it’s definitely not ‘lovable’
The “barbarians” deserve contempt and should be made to kowtow before the Beijing durbar
23 Jun 2021 12:00 AM
India, Bangladesh likely to sign three MoUs during PM Modi's visit
Modi is visitng Dhaka to attend the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the country's independence and the birth centenary of its founder
16 Mar 2021 12:38 PM
Biden, Xi face off in marathon two-hour call
The call was to set the stage for the relationship under the new US leader, after it frayed under former president Donald Trump
12 Feb 2021 12:50 AM
Claude Arpi | How Xi Jinping failed to learn the basics from Tzu’s Art of War
It’s not that the new Great Helmsman hasn’t received military training
28 Jul 2020 5:54 PM
Manish Tewari | Study Ancient China to learn to tackle Beijing
In 1839, China declared war on drugs by impounding over 1,000 tons of opium from British dealers in Canton (modern Guangzhou)
07 Jul 2020 6:07 PM
No need for 'third party' intervention at Sino-China border: China
Chinese foreign ministry asserts that China's position on the border issue with India is "consistent and clear"
03 Jun 2020 4:14 PM
Court documents reveal Chinese journalist jailed for 15 years for attacking ruling party
The charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" is a catch-all that Chinese authorities use against people who criticise the regime
01 May 2020 11:56 AM
Heating up the Himalayan border: What really is Beijing’s gameplan?
Strangely though, no sooner did Mr Xi leave Kathmandu October 13, strange things began to occur.
15 Jan 2020 1:47 AM
Hope, anxiety loom in 2019, as world on edge
Businesses are also on tenterhooks over the uncertainty of a disorderly Brexit and President Trump’s economic wars.
01 Jan 2019 11:01 PM
China says no to India's proposal for bilateral trade in domestic currencies
India has also proposed trade in national currencies with some other countries, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
02 Dec 2018 1:20 PM
At Modi-Abe summit, China will loom large
China must be closely reading the domestic developments in each rival nation carefully.
17 Oct 2018 12:30 AM
China offers USD 295 mn grant to Sri Lanka in a bid for increased influence
Grant offer comes when Chinese firm faces criticism for allegedly financing last election campaign of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
22 Jul 2018 5:05 PM
China will not concede 'even an inch' of its territory: Xi tells Mattis
US has been sending periodic air, naval expeditions to assert its right of freedom of navigation in SCS, most of which is claimed by China.
28 Jun 2018 7:27 PM
Chinese general to visit India soon as both countries attempt to reset ties
The Chinese Major General Liu Xiaowu would discuss border issues, cooperation as well as military exchanges during visit to India, Pak.
28 Jun 2018 6:18 PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping biggest promoter of Bollywood films, says envoy
The envoy said practising yoga, watching Bollywood films and tasting Darjeeling tea have become fashionable among the Chinese youth.
19 Jun 2018 1:30 PM
China scores strategic victory in Trump-Kim summit
When Trump announced that US would stop massive war games with S Korea, a longtime Chinese goal, it was clear that Beijing made its mark.
17 Jun 2018 3:05 PM
China retaliates with additional tariffs on USD 50 billion worth of US goods
China stated that if Washington imposed further tariffs in response, they too would take corresponding measures.
16 Jun 2018 1:56 PM
China rejects 'selfish, shortsighted' trade policies: Xi Jinping
Xi spoke hours after Trump said he was backing out of G7 communique, thwarting a fragile consensus on a trade dispute with US' top allies.
10 Jun 2018 1:03 PM
PM Modi, Xi Jinping Wuhan consensus to be reflected in SCO summit: Indian Envoy
India's focus will be to continue to expand cooperation in countering terrorism, economic development as well as cultural exchange.
08 Jun 2018 3:20 PM
Xi Jinping and N Korea's Kim Jong Un meet in China
It was Kim's second visit to China since March, highlighting efforts by the Cold War-era allies to mend ties.
08 May 2018 7:52 PM
Modi, Jinping to exchange views on global, strategic issues
The informal summit is being seen as a move by the two countries to get their ties back on track following the Doklam stand-off in 2017.
26 Apr 2018 9:04 AM
China welcomes North Korea's move to suspend nuclear tests
N Korea is set for summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in next week and with US President Donald Trump in late May or early June.
21 Apr 2018 2:41 PM
Trump to visit five Asian nations, seeks to pressurise North Korea
Trump asserted that North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens entire world with immense loss of human life.
18 Oct 2017 2:30 PM
'Resolutely oppose' any actions that undermine Communist Party's leadership: Xi Jinping
Xi told some 2,300 delegates at the Great Hall of the People that the country was entering a 'new era'.
18 Oct 2017 10:05 AM
China to provide USD 76 million for BRICS economic and technology cooperation
President Xi Jinping said China will contribute $4 million for the New Development Bank (NDB) setup by the BRICS countries.
04 Sep 2017 2:31 PM
Amid Sikkim standoff, Chinese President appreciates India's resolve against terror
China has praised India on the sideline meet of the G20 summit among BRICS leaders on Friday.
07 Jul 2017 2:52 PM
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From diplomatic invitations to papal visits and internal coalition dynamics, India's political arena navigates complex waters