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Abhijit Bhattacharyya
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The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.
    India and China are likely to go in for a joint economic project with Afghanistan.Opinion
    See what's behind the Sino-Indian reset'

    China has regularly and repeatedly announced that its territorial claim is its sovereignty, hence it's non-negotiable.

    8 May 2018 6:32 AM IST

    James MattisOpinion
    Of US, Russia & India's arms bazar

    For Western arms manufacturers, particularly those from the United States, India is just “waiting to be lapped up”.

    3 May 2018 7:41 AM IST

    China, under President Xi Jinping, is making a major push to use artificial intelligence, facial recognition and big data technology to track and control behaviour that goes against the interests of the ruling Communist Party online and in the wider world. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Emperor Xi's global OBOR dream

    It's up to India to realise the ground reality, to understand its power, strength and wisdom, and play accordingly.

    20 April 2018 7:43 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump warned that he could slap another USD 100 billion of extra tariffs on Chinas imports.Opinion
    Trade war with China: What led Trump to act

    Can Mr Trump be faulted for what he emphatically believed to be true?

    10 April 2018 12:55 AM IST

    Even though India has scrapped the earlier multi-billion contract for 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme and decided to go in for only 36 Rafales, the government will select at least one more aircraft besides Tejas to be built in India. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The perils of fighter price fixing

    Huge delays and the resulting rising costs have marred the modernisation programme and timely replenishment of inventory...

    21 March 2018 12:32 AM IST

    India China flagOpinion
    Tortuous talks in turbulent times

    China has been continuously trying to show India in poor light in front of its South Asian neighbours.

    7 March 2018 6:57 AM IST

    Aircraft, military or civil, are a high-tech, high-margin profitable business, specially for its makers and sellers.Opinion
    The price of aircraft & the price of power

    The non-manufacturing users and importers are always at the receiving end, except during the times when there is glut in...

    23 Feb 2018 7:07 AM IST

    Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maldives: India's new front with China

    India was one of the first to recognise the Maldives as an independent country and also the first to open its diplomatic...

    14 Feb 2018 12:29 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Dialogue in Beijing with his Afghanistan and Pakistan counterparts Salahuddin Rabbani and Khawaja Muhammad Asif respectively. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Han-style diplomacy: What China says, and what it may really mean

    From security to expansion, France sought a guarantee from both current contracting and past confronting parties.

    8 Feb 2018 1:05 AM IST

    According to the Indian commerce ministry, the trade deficit with China last year mounted to over $52 billion when the bilateral trade stood at $70 billion.Opinion
    The great Chinese (fire)wall: What India needs to do now

    Not only was indigenous industry ruined but from being a producer, India became a net consumer.

    1 Feb 2018 1:02 AM IST

    The Indian Army had last month made its first-ever military intervention of sorts on behalf of Bhutan by physically blocking Chinese troops from constructing a road in the Bhutanese Doklam area border territory near Indian border defences. (Representational image) .Opinion
    Behind China's push: Land, water, fuel issues

    Doklam and the Sino-Indian frontier are irritants and eyesores to Chinese leaders.

    23 Jan 2018 12:34 AM IST

    The Indian Army targeted the Hajira sector of PoK where 6 villages came under attack. (Photo: PTI/Representational)Opinion
    Wars in India: Looking back at history

    The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.

    15 Jan 2018 1:54 AM IST

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