Xinjiang – China’s Uighur Problem
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or East Turkestan is the western autonomous province of China. It accounts for one-sixth of China’s landmass with a...
China in Africa – Messiah or Monster
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China’s incredible journey of colonizing Africa took off post 2009, when it overtook the United States as Africa’s biggest trading partner. BRICS...
How China is killing India’s dream of leading Asia?
In India, there is a robust debate among academics, politicians and journalists that China, conscious of its centrality as the Middle Kingdom and the...
The First Kashmir War: 1947
Kashmir is in some ways to India what Taiwan is to China: a peripheral area with an erratic imperial history, with mostly Muslim rulers...
Why Pakistan is so important to China?
Within months of the Dalai Lama’s fight to India following a failed uprising in Tibet, Chinese ambassador Pan Tzu-li wrote to Prime Minister Nehru...
Is China-Pakistan friendship a threat to India?
Today, China’s primary interest in its relationship with Pakistan is, as Stephen Cohen puts it, to pursue a “classic balance of power strategy,” using...
Tibet’s water and regional security
Tibet is strategically important to China due to its centrality in Asia’s hydrological cycle. Tibet is known as the ‘Third Pole,’ for having the...
Tibet – Self-Immolations and Aftermath
With the most recent self-immolation on March 24, 2013, there have been 111 Tibetans confirmed to have self-immolated in different Tibetan areas since February...
China’s interference in Nepal and Outcome on Tibetans
Tibetan refugees transit through Nepal as they flee persecution at home and toward freedom in India or beyond. They leave because of China’s increased...
Beijing’s Proclamations on Regional Security
Beijing’s stated overall approach to regional security relations might be summarized as follows:
Increased attention to its peripheral environment, primarily because China needs regional...