Dalai Lama’s Tawang Visit Rekindles Debate
The 14th Dalai Lama today reached Tawang, a small Himalayan district which while historically part...
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China Warns India Against Dalai Lama Border Visit
On Friday, Beijing rebuked India for inviting the Dalai Lama to visit the disputed border state of...
On Modi’s Journey to the East, Economy Likely to Be Focus
On May 14, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Xi Jinping in Xi’an. The chosen...
Beijing Protests Modi’s Visit to Disputed Border Region
On Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Arunachal Pradesh, a north-eastern...
China Plans Rail Extension to India Through Tibet
According to a state media report, China plans to construct two railway lines in Tibet that will...
China Reiterates Claim to Arunachal Pradesh
Amid tensions over territorial claims in the South and East China Seas, China marked a visit by...
Highway Reaches Last County, Near Indian Border
Thursday marked the opening of a new highway linking China’s last remaining county to the...
Amid Distrust, China Extends ‘Handshake’ to India
On his first foreign trip as Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang was in New Delhi today, where he met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Xinhua ran a sanguine report on Li’s talking points and the “great...
U.S. Will Not Endorse China Passport Map
A new passport design incorporating a controversial map of China has met a range of responses from neighbouring countries over the last week. The map’s apparent purpose is to force neighbours to acknowledge China’s...
Chinese Passports Stir Up Territorial Disputes
China delivered a rousing jolt to its various border disputes last week with the introduction of a controversial new passport design. Visa pages in the passports incorporate a map—shown in an annotated photograph at The...
Fifty Years On, Sino-Indian Border Still Unsettled
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1962 Sino-Indian War on Saturday, The Economist visited the disputed region of Arunachal Pradesh over which it was fought. The area, sometimes known in China as “South...
India Measures Itself Against a China That Doesn’t Notice
While China is often eager to measure its development against the West, India frequently fixates on its own progress relative to China, according to The New York Times. Following a series of major corruption scandals, some in...
No Plan to Give up Arunachal Claim: China
From the Times of India: the Ming Pao newspaper mistakenly reported that the Chinese government is prepared to give up Arunachal Pradesh in return for Aksai Chin: China wants just 28 per cent of the 120,000 square kms of...
China Showing ‘Flexibility’ on Border Talks with India
From the Times of India: MARSEILLES: Buffeted by the strong Indian reaction to its failed bid to stop the NSG [Nuclear Suppliers Group] waiver for India, China has been showing flexibility on boundary talks. Sources said the...
Great (or Not) Expectations for the China-India Summit
The list of issues hanging over Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing positively boggles the mind: Indian displeasure over China’s alliances with Pakistan and Burma, Chinese displeasure with...
China Raises Tension in India Dispute – Jo Johnson and Richard McGregor
From Financial Times: India’s strengthening ties with the US are the cause of China’s increasingly aggressive position over the disputed India-China border in the eastern Himalayas, according to security affairs analysts in both countries. The two fast-growing economies have co-ordinated their approach to climate change through the Group of Eight, and bilateral trade surged 56 […]
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