China’s Border Robot Highlights Industrial and Tech Edge Over India

A video recently went viral on YouTube showing a lone Chinese robot standing guard at a remote border post in Tibet. Captured by Indian troops along the western section of the China-India Line of Actual Control (LAC), the footage was intended to showcase India’s high-ground advantage. Instead, ...

China Launches WTO Complaint Over India Solar, IT Trade Measures

China launched a complaint with the World Trade Organization over Indian measures on trade of solar cells and modules as well as information technology goods, the global trade body said Tuesday. The WTO said that Beijing had requested that it initiate ...

Chinese Social Media Mocks India’s ‘Semiconductor’ Stock Mania

Chinese social media has been buzzing with disbelief and humor over India’s latest stock market frenzy, RRP Semiconductor Ltd., a company whose skyrocketing stock is almost entirely divorced from its real operations. The share price of RRP Semiconductor has surged by an eye-popping 55,000 percent over ...

India Launches $815 Million Plan to Cut Reliance on China for Rare Earth Magnets

India has approved a more than $800 million plan to boost production of rare earth magnets in an effort to secure supplies and cut its dependence on imports from countries like China. Rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs), some of the strongest ...

India’s Top Tennis Player Says Denied China Visa

India's top-ranked men's tennis player Sumit Nagal said China denied him a visa weeks before he was set to appear at an Australian Open qualifying tournament in southwestern Sichuan. "I am supposed to fly to China soon to represent India at ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

CGSP Take: How Does the Venezuela Crisis Affect China’s Relationship with the Global South?

By Cobus van Staden, CGSP Head of Research,
China has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela and its detention of President Nicolás Maduro. 

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‘Smooth and Easy’: India and China Resume Direct Flights as Ties Improve

By Sailendra Sil The resumption of direct flights between India and China after a five-year suspension was hailed by arriving passengers Monday, a move important both for trade and a symbolic step as Asia's giants cautiously rebuild relations. ...

Chinese Youth Fear India Will Seize Job Opportunities Under New K Visa

A recent commentary from College Daily, the largest media platform for Chinese students overseas, examines how China’s newly launched K visa, set to take effect on October 1, is already drawing unusual attention abroad—particularly in India. Major Indian outlets are referring to it as “China’s H-1B,” ...

Bookings Open for First India–China Direct Flights Since Pandemic Suspension

India and China will resume direct flights between their two countries this month after a five-year suspension, officials said, with bookings opening on Friday. Direct flights between the world's two most populous countries were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ...

India Plans Mega-Dam to Counter China Water Fears

By Arunabh Saikia On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. ...

China-India Relations Remain Fragile Despite Warming Ties

It wasn't that long ago when the leaders from India and China couldn't even look at each other when they were in the same room. Today, the situation is very different. Ties between the two Asian powers have improved dramatically from ...

India-China Reset? Modi and Xi Test a Fragile Rapprochement

The reset between India and China appears to be holding. Nearly two weeks after President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin, five years of frigid ties between the two Asian ...

Economics, Not Politics Are Driving Modi Closer to China, Says Scholar

There's been a lot of speculation as to why, after 4-5 years of bitter feuding, China and India are now deciding that the time is right to reconcile. The narrative in the U.S. and Europe focuses on the role of Donald Trump and his torpedoing of the ...
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