India, China express satisfaction over peace efforts in border areas
India and China reviewed border peace, diplomatic coordination and bilateral normalisation during the 35th WMCC meeting held in Beijing on Wednesday.
India and China reviewed border peace, diplomatic coordination and bilateral normalisation during the 35th WMCC meeting held in Beijing on Wednesday.
Without directly referring to Beijing’s aggressive posturing, the four Quad nations on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the situation in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Nepal’s new political establishment appears determined to redraw the rules of engagement with the outside world.
China’s latest growth numbers offer reassurance at first glance, but they obscure a more uncomfortable reality: the world’s second-largest economy is increasingly reliant on external demand at precisely the moment when the global environment is turning hostile.
The latest exchange between Washington and Beijing is a reminder that beneath the courteous language of diplomacy lies a hard, immovable dispute.
The world’s eyes will be on Taiwan over the next six months as the country goes to the polls in January 2024 to elect its new leader. While the vote is going to be consequential, it is unlikely to be existential.
Washington and Beijing’s prima facie diametrically opposed positions regarding the rise of China and its place in the evolving international order “should not be seen as insurmountable barriers to a more stable coexistence between the two countries,” wrote Patricia M. Kim of the Brookings Institute in a recent article.
Human beings can be hugely creative. Although population increased eight times from 1 billion to over 8 billion between year 1800 and now, they are able, by and large, to meet their needs in a better way now compared to then, avoiding for the most part the devastating famines of those times.
With Presidential elections due in a little more than six months, and with the outcome expected to directly impact ties with Beijing and geostrategic equations in the IndoPacific, Taiwan is being rocked by a succession of allegations of sexual harassment, primarily targeting members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
As a democratic, affluent country which has punched below its weight in the international system, South Korea now appears ready to carve out a larger role for itself.
