China’s biggest challenge: Surviving autocratic Xi

File Photo: Xi Jingping, Communist China’s President By N. C. Bipindra Mao Zedong, it is said, was furious over the slights he had received at the Eighth Party Congress (1956 and 1958) – the call for collective leadership, the assertions that China would never have a cult of personality, the removal of Mao’s thought as the guiding principle for the nation, and the criticisms of adventurism. He…

J-POD || Podcast || “A large section of media doesn’t want to dwell on stories that present the government in a bad light” || Ananth Krishnan of ‘The Hindu’ on the tepid coverage of Chinese ingress

https://soundcloud.com/user-311470525/j-pod-ananth-krishnan-of-the Ananth Krishnan, the Mandarin-speaking Beijing Correspondent of The Hindu, on his book “India’s China Challenge” (HarperCollins), in the wake of #Coronavirus and the Chinese incursions into #Ladakh, and what the future holds for both countries.

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India is locked in its biggest conflict with China in recent times. Twenty…

The Hindu Explains | Who does Galwan Valley belong to?

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The story so far: On June 15, the worst violence on the India-China border since 1967 claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers. The clash occurred in the Galwan Valley, which hasn’t been a site of conflict since 1962. On June 19, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a statement claimed that the entire valley is located “on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC)”, which followed a…

The Hindu Explains | Who does Galwan Valley belong to?

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The story so far:On June 15, the worst violence on the India-China border since 1967 claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers. The clash occurred in the Galwan Valley, which hasn’t been a site of conflict since 1962. On June 19, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a statement claimed that the entire valley is located “on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC)”, which followed a…

Pakistan factor behind India-China stand-off in Ladakh

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China’s heightened concerns over Aksai Chin and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is routed, in part, through Gilgit-Baltistan, may have set the backdrop for the ongoing stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh.

“There appears to have been a strategic shift in Chinese thinking after India abrogated Sections of Article 370 last year and created the Union…

News Analysis | Behind new incidents, a changed dynamic along India-China border

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A greater capability by India to patrol up to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) coupled with an increasingly assertive Chinese posture is fuelling new tensions along the border, according to former senior Indian officials.

Indian and Chinese troops have been involved in as many as four incidents in recent weeks along the undefined LAC. On Monday, Chinese state media said the People’s…