Can India benefit?
The relationship between the United States and China has always been a delicate dance of power, influence, and mutual dependence.
The relationship between the United States and China has always been a delicate dance of power, influence, and mutual dependence.
The visit is Putin's symbolic first overseas foray since entering a new term as Russia's president last week.
Nine people were killed and two others injured after a truck collided with a car in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Thursday morning.
South Korea has raised its automotive industry's concerns with the US over Washington's inquiry and envisioned rules to address potential security risks from "connected vehicles" that use technology from China and other countries of concern.
Torrential rains have lashed multiple cities in south China's Guangdong Province including Zhongshan and Zhuhai, with 58 rainstorm alerts in effect across the province.
“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.
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.
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
Referring to the deadly clash between Indian and Chinese troops at the Galwan Valley on 15 June last year, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong admitted that every time such an incident occurred, the bilateral relationship was pushed back by years.
The changes introduced are an antithesis of the spirit of democracy that had propelled the “Umbrella movement” of 2014. It thus comes about that the number of directly elected seats in Parliament has been cut almost by half, and prospective MPs will first be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee to ensure their loyalty to the mainland.
