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China’s PLA sings Jai Ho as India goes for Border Defence
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 08 Jan , 2016
On New Year day, a Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) between India and China was held in a Chinese hut near a place called Damai, north of the Lohit sector of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian delegation...
China’s New War over Internet
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 23 Dec , 2015
Beijing irredentism is not restricted to the China Seas, Beijing also wants to be the leader in cyberspace and impose its own law. President Xi Jinping in his keynote speech at the World Internet...
Fan Changlong is coming to India
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 03 Nov , 2015
During the month of November, India will receive two important visitors from China; both are members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. …the PLA spokesman...
India China LAC face-Off – Analysis
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 23 Sep , 2015
After a swift victory, Julius Caesar is said to have bragged in the Roman Senate: “Vini, Vidi, Vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered). These historic words need to be adapted for the recent...
Nathu La to Kailash: Trip down the memory lane
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 30 Jun , 2015
Once upon a time, not far from Nathu-la, the pass situated at 4,310 metres above sea level between Sikkim and Tibet, India had a stunning Trade Agency in Yatung in Tibet. This came back to mind...
China floats dangerously over troubled waters of South China Sea
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 09 Jun , 2015
Some watchers have predicted a ‘crack’, others a ‘collapse’, all might be wrong, but the fact remains that the Middle Kingdom has entered troubled waters, not only in the South China...
China visit and after – Undoing Nehru’s folly
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 19 May , 2015
A few months ago, a European diplomat confidentially told me, ‘in fact, the job of Modi is just to undo the knots in which the UPA tied up India in the past’. He was probably thinking of the...
Xi Jinping’s brotherly love for Pakistan
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 14 May , 2015
As Prime Minister is preparing to pay his maiden visit to Beijing (as Prime Minister), it necessary to come back on another visit, President Xi Jinping’s trip to Pakistan and the enormity of...
Can Indian Navy deter China’s Two Silk Roads
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: www.niticentral.com | Date: 07 May , 2015
The 10-day Indo-French naval exercise code-named ‘Varuna’ recently held off the Goa coast did not get much coverage in the Indian media. The event was important for several reasons which...