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Shekhar Gupta: Strategic wake-up call

Modi govt's strategic policy-making remains a prisoner of historic obsessions and BJP's electoral politics. Ladakh shows it needs hard introspection, realism, and course correction

US weighs sweeping travel ban on China's Communist Party members

The presidential proclamation, still in draft form, could also authorise the US govt to revoke the visas of party members and their families who are already in the country, leading to their expulsion

China rebounds from coronavirus crisis, economy grows 3.2% in Q2

However, Shanghai Composite slips 4.5% over policy tightening, foreign selling

Pakistan back in China's Belt and Road game with projects worth $11 bn

The Chinese financing has helped rid Pakistan of an electricity deficit that left exporters unable to meet orders and major cities without electricity for much of the day.

'Not interested in talking to China': Donald Trump on Phase 2 of trade deal

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed the Phase One deal in January

A paradigm-defining contest with China

As India redefines its priorities vis-a-vis China, its policymakers will have to be bolder in articulating the need for robust partnerships

China denies burial to soldiers killed in Galwan clash with India: US media

China can't accept that its soldiers were killed in the showdown in order to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, says report.

US rejects Chinese claims in South China Sea, terms 'completely unlawful'

The US stands with the international community in the defence of freedom of the seas and respect for sovereignty, says Mike Pompeo

The Chinese decade: Coronavirus has given Beijing a strategic opportunity

Instead of a Chinese Century, in other words, the coronavirus might be ushering in a Chinese Decade

Wielding the stick versus carrying one

When it comes to China what will win us the day? Braggadocio or preparedness?

Xi Jinping has made the familiar mistake of underestimating PM Modi

Modi gives his opponents several chances not to push him beyond the point of no return. He is willing to live and let live

China and India should be partners, not rivals: Chinese ambassador to India

In his video, he said that there was an incident on June 15th on the India-China border causing casualties, which neither China nor India would like to see

India rejects China's claim over Galwan; diplomatic talks likely on Friday

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India remained convinced of the need for maintenance of peace and tranquillity in the border areas

Withdrawal from Galwan Valley puts Indian troops further from LAC

The area in which PP-14 is located - and which the Indian Army has patrolled for decades - now effectively falls inside China's "buffer zone".

The story of the "Indian Panoptes"

Will it have an ending different from the one described in Greek mythology?

WHO team to visit Beijing to trace origin of Covid-19, says China

The disease, which originated in Wuhan city of China, has killed over 500,000 people in the world and cases and deaths are increasing by the day.

Democratic India has an ideological battle to fight with China

The future of democracy in Asia and the world may well be determined by choices India makes

US formally notifies UN of withdrawal from World Health Organisation

The withdrawal notice was sent to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday and will take effect in a year, on July 6, 2021, the State Department and the United Nations said on Tuesday.

India engaging with China through diplomatic, military channels: Shringla

Shringla said that diplomacy is looking at a very changed scenario in terms of how statecraft and relations between countries work in the wake of the pandemic.

Chinese miners deals seen stalling over Canada, Australian regulations

Canada and Australia have recently tightened restrictions on investment by state-backed firms, fearing economic dislocation caused by the pandemic will make it easier to buy strategic asset