What Modi’s Biggest Challenge at Davos Will Be
At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to explain whether the economic mismanagement of 2016 and 2017 was a mere blip.
At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to explain whether the economic mismanagement of 2016 and 2017 was a mere blip.
China’s foreign ministry said USS Hopper missile destroyer came within 12 nautical miles of Huangyan Island, which is also known as Scarborough Shoal and subject to a rival claim by the Philippines.
Maya Mirchandani interviews former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani about what ASEAN means for India and South East Asia.
Sporting extravaganzas are a way for cities in emerging market economies to try and play the ‘modernity game’. But they don’t make the rules, and so they can never ‘win’.
Whether Xi would be able to have his name ‘crowned’ in the party constitution had been seen as a key measure of his power.
Under President Xi Jinping, combat readiness has been elevated to a strategic priority.
The MEA has termed reports about infrastructure, albeit ‘temporary’, at Doklam as ‘mischievous’, says there has been no change in status quo.
Pakistan has already built a vibrant military relationship with China and also turned to UK, France, Sweden, Turkey and Italy for its arms supplies.
Swaraj said that the time terror was seen as other people’s problem is ‘long gone’ and that ‘zero tolerance is the call of the day’.
In a massive thaw in diplomatic relations, North and South Korean skiers will train together at a resort in North Korea before the Olympics start.
China has dismissed an international meeting on the North Korean nuclear crisis hosted by Canada and the US as illegitimate.
Plans for China to rate its citizens for their trustworthiness have been depicted as uniquely Chinese. Don’t be so sure.
Beijing has taken an increasingly hostile stance towards Taipei since the election two years ago of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
China’s President Xi Jinping told the US President Donald Trump that their efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions must continue.
We cannot simply rely on the actions of concerned individuals. What’s needed goes beyond reusing plastic water bottles and taking reusable bags to the supermarket.
The US and others say the international community must look at ways of expanding a broad range of sanctions aimed at North Korea’s nuclear programme.
Following a collision that took place on January 6 in the East China Sea, the oil tanker sunk after burning for more than a week.
The meeting comes as Trump considers imposing restrictions on steel and aluminum imports against China arising from an investigation into Beijing’s alleged theft of intellectual property.
China’s attitude towards Myanmar reflects a bigger strategy: to bolster its presence in Asia at the expense of other powers.
Six years after Modi stated FDI in retail would help “Italian businessmen”, his government has done away with mandatory sourcing conditions.
Since Trump was elected president, the US has eschewed soft power. China has spotted the gap and is attempting to woo many countries whose US relations are wavering.
The study confirmed that witchcraft accusations act as punishment for those who do not cooperate with local norms.
Analysis of China’s foreign “aid” misses the fact that much of it is in the form of commercial loans and little of it seems to have helped the recipient countries develop.
The Trump administration’s retreat from the world has enlarged China’s strategic opportunity.
The latest GDP figures prove that the economy has taken a battering because of the hasty implementation of GST.
Hong Kong’s legal chief Rimsky Yuen, who has been accused of using the law to clamp down on growing dissent, has left his job earlier than expected.
Government sources say the incident took place on December 28, nearly four months after the end of the 73-day long Doklam standoff.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong want China to stop compromising the city’s autonomy.
Maya Mirchandani speaks to journalist and author Bertil Lintner about his new book China’s India War and the Rohingya crisis.
China exported no oil products to North Korea in November, Chinese customs data showed, apparently going above and beyond sanctions imposed earlier this year by the UN.
The Chinese attempt to broker talks comes in the background of Af-Pak ties being poisoned, due to Kabul accusing Islamabad of supporting Taliban insurgents fighting US-backed Kabul, to limit New Delhi’s influence in Afghanistan.
The warning comes amid President Xi Jinping’s tightening party control over all aspects of life as well as locking up dissidents and rights activists on subversion charges.
Any delay in joint military drills with the US would depend on North Korea’s behaviour during the 2018 Winter Olympics, officials in Seoul said on Wednesday.
The penalties are aimed at tightening oversight of land, water and air pollution, and holding companies accountable for the clean-up costs and restoring the ecological balance after major accidents.
Diplomatic sources say China didn’t want to answer questions on transparency and environmental standards.
Gas shortages have sent prices soaring nationwide, undermining a sweeping campaign to switch millions of households and thousands of businesses from coal to natural gas in north China this winter.
Vinod Dua discusses former Pakistani high commissioner Ashraf Jahangir Qazi’s ‘secret’ meetings with L.K. Advani and Chinese diplomacy.
The threat is an attempt to preclude the island nation from allowing a US navy vessel to visit Taiwan.
The new diplomatic move comes amid Japan’s demands for exerting pressure on North Korea through sanctions to give up its nuclear weapons.
Stating that the WTO was ‘too easy’ on wealthier developing countries such as China, the US trade chief, criticised the organisations’s protectionism and advocated for a stronger multilateral system.