China's effort to dissuade West Bengal officials from participating in an event attended by the Dalai Lama in Kolkata amounts to brazen meddling.
While advancing our core interests with China, we should be wary of triggering a disproportionate, even adventurist, response from a prickly China.
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?
India and China have enough troubles already, and yet more US scare-mongering is unhelpful.
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.
The way Anna and his supporters are being targeted for harassment, raises the question: are we any different from authoritarian China?
An abiding lesson from Nehru's naivete: talk peace, by all means, but keep the powder dry...
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.
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.
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.
Two recent incidents involving the Chinese and Indian navies point to a dangerous escalation in tension between the two countries.
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.
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'.
India's case for establishing a Consulate in Lhasa is stronger than the US, which is playing hardball diplomacy with China on Tibet.
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.
India's yearning for a place at the High Table of global governance isn't about to be realised anytime soon, given the cynical nature of Big Power politics. A reality check.
Talk about pre-emptive strikes! Chinese authorities have added Google+ to the long line of social networks that can't scale the Great Firewall of China.
The official Chinese narrative on the Three Gorges Dam is moving away from triumphalism, reflecting a rethink of Mao-era monstrosities.
Ai’s arrest and disappearance, along with the severe prison sentence imposed on the Noble Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, are driven by the same motivation: to dam the potential for political unrest and purge independent intellectuals.
The gloves are off: India’s aspirations for permanent membership just became a tad more unrealisable.
Slow population growth and a rising number of aged could stall China's high-speed chase to the World No 1 spot
Even if Hu Jintao relaxes his stance on the family planning, inflation dictates that choice of the average urbanite