Category: China-India

China's steadily worsening ties with India soured further on Tuesday when Beijing's ambassador to Kathmandu, Chen Song, criticized New Delhi's "policies towards Nepal and other neighbors" as "not so friendly." Chen's remarks sparked an angry response in the Indian media, which ...

The Indian government issued a formal diplomatic protest on Tuesday against China over the publication of Beijing's new official map that New Delhi claims includes large swathes of its territory. The 2023 edition of the "standard map of China" that ...

Part of the problem at the root of the worsening border dispute between India and China is that both sides are approaching the issue from two totally different, wholly divergent perspectives. While the Indian government accuses China of encroaching on its ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came under withering criticism this weekend from his political rivals and the media back home for the way he handled a short, "informal" exchange with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of last week's BRICS summit in Johannesburg -- their first ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi re-surfaced longstanding suspicions that China is fueling the Global South debt crisis by engaging in predatory lending. In an interview with India Today published on Friday, the Prime Minister insinuated that unnamed "forces" are ensnaring ...

The South African organizers of the BRICS summit stupidly used small national flags as floor markers for where the five leaders should stand during a photo shoot on Wednesday. Putting a flag on the ground for someone to step on is ...

One of the closest-watched interactions at the summit will be between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping. Tensions between the two Asian superpowers have been rising due to an ongoing border dispute and larger geopolitical wranglings. There are 

India and China's fractious relationship reaches far beyond their disputed border. It influences politics in countries like the Maldives, where candidates in the upcoming presidential election are frequently defined according to their China/India alignment. The tensions are also reshaping multilateral organizations. India ...

By Saniya Kulkarni There has been much scrutiny of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit two weeks ago – especially around the fact that it was entirely virtual. Compelling arguments have been put forth on both sides, the advantages and disadvantages ...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi called on his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar to re-orient their two countries' steadily deteriorating ties away from "specific issues" that Wang feels shouldn't "define the overall relationship." Wang made the request on Friday during talks with ...

India's top diplomat S. Jaishankar issued a subtle yet direct criticism of China's engagement in Africa during a recent tour of Zanzibar and Tanzania. "Unlike some other countries," he told a meeting of the Indian diaspora community in Dar es Salaam, ...

Press outlets in India are reporting that Chinese entities are working with the Pakistani army to build infrastructure along the de facto India-Pakistan border (known as the Line of Control), which runs through the disputed Kashmir region. Reports allege that Chinese ...