India-China relations

A Higher Orbit

Rajeev Deshpande

A discussion to felicitate Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s space flight descended into partisan rancour in Lok Sabha

Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai?

Siddharth Singh

India could do well with a large dose of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as well as trade in key commodities, such as fertilisers and rare earth

A Turning Point in Qingdao

Harsh V Pant

India’s stand on terrorism exposes the SCO’s contradictions

China Can’t Turn off Brahmaputra’s Tap: Assam CM

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Counters Pak scaremongering with figures that reveal most of river's water flow is from India itself

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Maestro of Foreign Policy

TP Sreenivasan

As Prime Minister, Vajpayee’s contributions far exceeded his foreign policy successes

The Power of Choice

Shashi Tharoor

India can leverage its partnership with the US to advance its geopolitical interests without provoking a volatile and vindictive China

Buffer Story

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The buffer zones, which involved a pullback from specific friction points on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by Indian and Chinese troops, remain but patrolling has been restored to full extent

India in Today’s World

Krishnan Srinivasan

And the way forward

Resumption of Indian Patrolling Along LAC Reduces Salience of Buffer Zones

Rajeev Deshpande

Border breakthrough happened as keeping troops locked up in Himalayas delivered diminishing returns to China more than four years after the bloody clash at Galwan