India-China relations

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

Weight and Watch

Siddharth Singh

Between Trump and Xi

Difficult Choices

Siddharth Singh

There is more to India’s foreign policy than the illusory binary of peace and war

China: The Paper Dragon

Bharat Karnad

A disruptive neighbour like China does not deserve India’s respect

Enlightenment in the Gobi Desert

Nanditha Krishna

Amidst the India-China standoff elsewhere, art unites the two countries on the Silk Road. Nanditha Krishna looks at the Grottoes of a Thousand Buddhas to realise how civilisation is a unifying force even in the time of adversity