India-China relations

The Three-Body Problem

Shivshankar Menon

Ananth Krishnan’s compelling portrait of China is a refreshing break from the familiar media trope

How the Russians dealt with China’s ‘Ladakh-style’ incursions

Ajay Kamalakaran

China has a 4209-km long border with Russia, a significant part of which is on the Amur and Ussuri rivers

Speak, History

TCA Raghavan

Returning to the broken fragments of the 1990s to understand the China-driven churn of the present

Self-Reliance in a Brave New World

Siddharth Singh

China hardly buys anything while it sells everything to India. No prime minister, least al all Narendra Modi, could ignore the consequences of this skewed trade pattern

Homemade

Lhendup G Bhutia

From Reliance Jio’s Made-in-India 5G plan to the recent boom in desi apps and PPE manufacturing, Indian industry gets ready for a swadeshi turn

They Are the World’s Finest Soldiers. Show Some Respect

Vinaya Chandran

A former infantry officer debunks some expert opinions about the Indian army fighting in Ladakh

A Playbook for the 2020s

Shashi Tharoor

Globalisation has created a rift but a more networked world can heal it in the new decade

As Xi Jinping comes calling, a close examination of China’s effort to educate its students and lead well-funded research platforms—from a state that sent poets to jail for subjectivism to Jack Ma’s Alibaba