‘Prairie fires’ rage across China
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli More than nine decades ago, on January 5, 1930, Mao Zedong wrote a letter titled “A single spark can start a...
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Dec 4, 20224 min read
International Political Economy of iPhone Production
By Aishwarya Pathak There was a headline on the Hindu on September 26, 2022 that read “Apple starts production of iPhone 14 at Foxconn’s...
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Nov 11, 20225 min read
Chinese Motive Behind Its Repeated Attempts at Blocking India’s Bid To Blacklist Global Terrorist
By Pratik Mall “Eminent geoeconomic, geopolitical and strategic rationale underpins China's repeated attempts to block Indian bids to...
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Nov 11, 20223 min read
Xi Jinping, the new Mao
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli The 20th Communist Party Congress in China signalled a total centralisation of powers in the person of Xi...
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Nov 4, 20224 min read
Will Xi Jinping’s ‘Yes Men’ Fulfil His Vision of Making China a World Leader?
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli The current politburo standing committee members, all Xi loyalists, owe their rise to Xi and can bend to his...
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Oct 28, 20225 min read
China’s New Pantheon Is Cast in Xi Jinping’s Image
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli The ‘Chairman of Everything’ has demolished all factions, ruthlessly sidelined senior leaders, and placed...
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Oct 28, 20225 min read
How not to deal with a rising China
Amitabh Mattoo and Joseph S. Nye outline some of the key misconceptions about strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific and the US–China...
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Oct 26, 20224 min read
A new modernization choice for world
By Prof. Swaran Singh In his speech at the opening session of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sunday, CPC...
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Oct 19, 20225 min read
Xi’s Forward Plan: After Taiwan, Galwan, Where Would the Buck Stop for China?
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Xi reiterated in work report to safeguard China’s dignity and core interests which has major implications...
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Oct 19, 20223 min read
Let’s do some Pekinology
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Such a lack of transparency is a Soviet legacy and is followed by Communist parties across the globe As the...
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Oct 1, 20225 min read
US Pacific Islands Strategy: what lies beyond
By Prof. Swaran Singh Interactions at the Pacific Islands Summit this week revealed some of the deeper fears that explain perennial...
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Sep 26, 20224 min read
Xi might want to quickly forget his Samarkand outing
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli When Xi visited Samarkand on September 16, what surprised many analysts was that he made no major...
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Sep 20, 20226 min read
Global Security Initiative: Off to a Promising Start but an Uphill Task
By Prof. Swaran Singh Instead of transforming diminishing post-war institutions, the U.S. and its allies remain focused on strengthening...
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Sep 16, 20227 min read
China Storming Arunachal Bastion in Vain
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli While the nation’s attention is drawn acutely to the western sector of the border between India and China in...
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Sep 12, 20224 min read
Matter of time
By Prof. Swaran Singh BRICS expansion is inevitable in light of developed countries' unwillingness to give developing countries greater...
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Sep 10, 20224 min read
Will India walk out of IPEF?
By Prof. Swaran Singh As part of the hyperactive senior official- and minister-level talks launched during US President Joe Biden's visit...
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Aug 23, 20224 min read
Middle Kingdom: Gunboat Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Why the Yuan Wang 5’s Arrival in Sri Lanka is Consequential for South Asia Despite serious reservations...
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Aug 23, 20226 min read
Decoding China’s ‘new normal’ Taiwan policy
By Prof. Swaran Singh The tone of Beijing’s latest White Paper on Taiwan differs markedly from those issued before the Xi Jinping era...
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Aug 11, 20224 min read
Pelosi’s visit could derail US–China compromise over Taiwan
By Prof. Swaran Singh and Prof. Yves Tiberghien, UBC There is plenty of blame to go around for the apparent fourth Taiwan Straits crisis...
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Aug 11, 20223 min read
Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan: Need to Stand Up to China and Call Its Bluff
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Nancy Pelosi’s defiant, but unannounced, visit comes in the wake of China’s uncalled for, politically...
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