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Still unexplained

The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.

PM spells out India’s position on China

I n a recent interview to Newsweek, the Prime Minister, discussing Indo-China relations, commented, “For India, the relationship with China is important and significant.

Embassy violations cast a long shadow

It has long been held that embassies should be treated as “off-limits” to other nations. Yet in a single week, two governments – both long-established democracies – stand accused of violating, in different ways, the laws surrounding foreign diplomatic missions.

Russia ‘no’ to military ties with China

“No,” Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said categorically at a joint Press conference with External Affairs minister S Jaishankar when asked if Russia and China could sign a military pact, given the growing relationship between the two countries.

Power of trade

India’s exports to China over the last six years have been only a fifth in value of India’s imports from China. While average exports to China have been $13 billion in the six years ending 2019-20, the average value of imports from China has been $66 billion in the same period.

The alternative BRI

Not every nation will share the same urgency, fear or even the plausible appetite for joining an alternative to the existing BRI that willy-nilly entails offending the Chinese, directly. But the conversations have already started. The alternative to BRI may not only be feasible, but completely unavoidable, unless the ‘free world‘ throws in the towel to the Chinese, completely