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Flashback '62: Let's not be sitting ducks for a China attack

If an opportunity presents itself, China they may not hesitate to seek a military solution to our border dispute.

Why China insults India: Because it can get away with it

India's weak-kneed response to the visiting Chinese Defence Minister deliberate breach of protocol will reinforce Chinese perceptions of India's weakness.

India mustn't rush into SCO's secret 'security club'

China is using the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation security grouping to protect its interests in Central Asia. India too wants in, but it should consider the extent to which it should participate in the security mechanism.

Peace with China: Is Gen JJ Singh a loose cannon or a trial balloon?

Former Army chief Gen JJ Singh floats a land-for-peace proposal on China. Here's why we should listen to him.

As China confronts Bo crisis, is Asia's last bastion of political stability wavering?

It was political stability that underwrote China's supernormal growth of decades, Today, after a political scandal centred around a privileged politician, that stability is at risk.

Three's not a crowd: China seeks trilateral talks with India, US

The move is seen as a shift in Chinese strategic thinking away from boxing India within South Asia.

Hu at BRIC summit unlikely to pacify Tibetan protesters

China's infirm hold on Tibet, and the continuing wave of self-immolations, hold grave security implications for India, which is home to Tibetan exiles.

China grapples with its own ‘Kudankulam’ protests

A village in China protests against a nuclear power plant in its backyard. How the government responds could be a contrasting case study with our own Kudankulam protests.

With all its might, China cannot crush the Tibetan soul

By treating the Tibetan uprising as only a law-and-order problem and dealing sternly with it, China is set on the wrong path in history.

What's a good price to pay for 'heavenly peace' with China?

Any future border settlement between India and China will be based on some form of land swap. But the challenges of forging a national consensus around that are formidable.

Why India-China border talks never make any progress

Locked in distrust, the two countries cannot even agree on how long their disputed border is. Chronicle of a troubled relationship.

India must kick China out of Sri Lanka: William Avery

A former US diplomat foresees India as the next global power, and reasons that it must defend its turf in its neighbourhood by keeping China out.

Why India is at risk from China's cyberwar ability

Without being drawn into a US network of allies and partners aimed at containing China, India can promote strategic convergence with the US and build up its defences against China.

Let's not get paranoid about China Navy in the Seychelles

Chinese strategic thinking in the Indian Ocean revolves more around energy security than power projection.

Heat is on India as China commits to emission cuts

China breaks ranks with developing countries by committing - with conditions - to cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure is now likely to mount on India to conform.

A test for India: How do you deal with a bully like China?

China's effort to dissuade West Bengal officials from participating in an event attended by the Dalai Lama in Kolkata amounts to brazen meddling.

A chill wintry wind blows across China-India relations

While advancing our core interests with China, we should be wary of triggering a disproportionate, even adventurist, response from a prickly China.

The calming, unreal bhai-bhai bonhomie of Wen and Singh

Two lions in winter, considered political lightweights in their respective dens, seek to pitch bilateral relations on to a higher peace orbit. But do their memos even reach their mandarins?

Why we don't need Bush to scare us about China...

India and China have enough troubles already, and yet more US scare-mongering is unhelpful.

In China, Emperor Modi, beware the 'panda ambush'

While courting investments from China, Modi and his men must never allow bilateral bonhomie to advance China's claims on Indian territory, as happened last week.

In hounding dissent, India is just as rotten as China

The way Anna and his supporters are being targeted for harassment, raises the question: are we any different from authoritarian China?

With China, war-talk may be best bet for peace

An abiding lesson from Nehru's naivete: talk peace, by all means, but keep the powder dry...

US courts China, India ahead of key regional summits

The US reasserts its engagement with Asia and with the emerging power centres Beijing and New Delhi ahead of the East Asia summit and a conference on Afghanistan.

Treading softly, India plays a losing game with China

Whatever the nature of the 'confrontation' involving Indian and Chinese navies in the South China Sea, the Indian strategy of tamely giving in won't earn any respite.

Investors ready to rescue Chinese healthcare, challenges await

As healthcare spending in China goes up and the government system falls short, private equity is the country's best bet. But investors await detailed guidelines, and stare at a high taxes and staff crunch.

China-India tensions now spill over into high seas

Two recent incidents involving the Chinese and Indian navies point to a dangerous escalation in tension between the two countries.

Two of a kind: Why China is betting on Narendra Modi

If China's leaders are signalling they can do business with Modi by rolling out the red carpet, it's because they see a bit of themselves in Modi.

A 'green card' opens the door to more 'Little Indias' in China

The grant of permanent residence rights to an Indian national in China is a milestone event in immigration history, and could see perhaps see more Indians 'Enter the Dragon'.

No more Chinese consulates in India until we get one in Lhasa

India's case for establishing a Consulate in Lhasa is stronger than the US, which is playing hardball diplomacy with China on Tibet.

China 'punishes' countries that receive the Dalai Lama

Using hard power and its commercial clout, China is working to limit the Dalai Lama's sphere of global influence. That strategy is working, going by Obama's 'downgraded' meeting with the Tibetan leader.