Asia Times looks at India’s widening trade deficit with China: On the surface then, there appears to be plenty of evidence for optimists who hold that Bangalore and Shanghai, rather than New Delhi and Beijing, are the new determinants of the topography of bilateral ties; ties that are increasingly characterized by commerce rather than conflict. […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu: Negotiations between the Special Representatives of India and China ” National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo ” on the border dispute began here on Tuesday. This is the 11th round of talks since the appointment of the Special Representatives. The in-camera talks, which will continue till […]
Read MoreChina and India have teamed up by issuing a joint statement asking for a more prominent role for their two countries during the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of talks, which are slated to conclude at the end of the year. From the Hindu: The statement followed a meeting between Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: As Beijing gears up to host the Summer Olympic Games next year, it is anxious to project itself as a modern world-class capital. However, wrong-footed conceptions of modernity combined with a weak legal system and corrupt collusion between real-estate developers and local officials has resulted in the wanton demolition of large swaths […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, a look at how the government is addressing concerns about growing social and economic inequality, and the lingering tensions over the issue: Increasingly squeezed between the demands of the right and the criticisms of the left, the CCP is engaged in an ever more delicate juggling act, balancing the interests of the […]
Read MoreFrom Hindu.com: Marking the closing of the India-China friendship year, an exhibition of ancient Indian sculptures will be inaugurated here on Tuesday by Minister for Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni. The exhibition will showcase a wide-ranging selection of 100 antiquities that represent Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art and date between 3rd century BC and 18th […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra for more than […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Even as the main dam of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir, the world’s largest hydroelectric project, was completed in late May several months ahead of schedule, China is gearing up to launch another massive Yangtze River dam-building project. Sandwiched between the towering majesty of the Jade Dragon and Haba Snow Mountains in […]
Read MoreFrom Asian Times Online (link): From high up in the misty Song Mountains of central China’s Henan province, the Shaolin monastery and its kung fu monks have held a peculiar fascination across the centuries. Shrouded in a swirl of myth and mystery, the temple’s fame has long crossed Chinese borders thanks to Hollywood and Jet […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu (link): “THE first time I sold my contemporary art collection was around three years ago and I tripled my investment. If I had waited till today the same works would have gone for 10 times what I sold them for!” rues Robert Bernell, a Beijing-based art publisher and collector. Indeed, as China’s […]
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