Articles By Hemant Adlakha
Making sense of Xi-Biden meeting in Bali: Scholars in China want Beijing to...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2022
Biden’s changed rhetoric in Bali did indeed surprise the world – including China. An editorial in the Financial Times explains the US president’s pledge in Bali to “manage China” as a...
Russia-Ukraine War: China Weighs What Benefits Beijing The Most
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2022
A series of recent Ukrainian counteroffensive successes – the Kerch Strait Bridge blast being the latest, have inflicted significant losses on the Russian forces, yet Ukraine wants an early end...
Biden signs CHIPS Act, Leaves No Bargaining Chip for China
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2022
The new USCHIPS and Science Act of 2022 is the beginning of Washington’s“technology arms race” against China, analysts are telling us. As was expected, Beijing has reacted strongly by...
Beijing calls the visit farce as Pelosi begins a 4-nation Asia journey
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2022
Last Friday, the US House Speaker kicked off her much-hyped, long-awaited Asia journey. Curiously, her itinerary includes 4 nations – Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore, but a visit to...
‘When China needed NATO against Russia’
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2022
Since the Chinese communists took control of Beijing in 1949, despite China proclaiming “self-reliance” in foreign policy Beijing has always relied upon either alliance or siding with one of...
Biden’s Asia-Pacific Tour, Skips Visiting China
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2022
Biden concludes Asia tour, Beijing wonders if he will ever return to visit China as US President Last week, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, 10-12 June, China issued a stern warning to...
Russia-Ukraine Crisis: China’s Leaders Look for ‘Opportunity’ amid...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2022
George W. Bush administration had to abandon China “encirclement” policy when the terror struck in New York. For the ensuing twenty years the US was chasing Islamic militants. The period...
Did India ‘Misread’ Chinese Foreign Minister’s one-day Stopover in the...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Mar , 2022
“Welcoming the unwelcome” is how a TV news channel headlined the 24-hour stopover by China’s foreign minister in the Indian capital last Thursday-Friday. While the Indian foreign minister...
War in Ukraine: Public Diplomacy ‘Argy-Bargy’ in Public, on China’s Weibo
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2022
Leaders from around the world have found a new social media platform in their political battlefield over the war in Ukraine – Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter. While China’s Weibo users...
Ukraine War Crisis and Geopolitics
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2022
Beijing’s Lesson from Russia-Ukraine War: Don’t Ever Let NATO-like Organization Come up Near China An explicitly anti-communist alliance created at the dawn of the Cold War, NATO evolved into...
14th Round : Endless Negotiations, ‘Insipid’ Line, Unsettled Border,...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jan , 2022
It can be argued, when Henry McMahon drew an “insipid” line sitting in beautiful surroundings in Simla Office over one hundred years ago, he was only being dutiful in maximizing British...
With the Taliban on Its Side, Beijing Mulls Making India...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2021
Pitch As China gears up for “seizing the golden opportunity” in Afghanistan under the Taliban, a key component of Beijing’s Afghan strategy is to render the Indian role there...
QUAD: Is India really the weakest link in US-led alliance? (Part 2)
By: Hemant Adlakha | Date: 19 Jun , 2021
Prime Minister Modi’s “twin” failure in effectively tackling the second wave of Covid-19 and creating chaos in procuring and distributing vaccine across the country have “battered...
QUAD: Is India really the weakest link in the US-led alliance?
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2021
Japanese leader Shinzo Abe pioneered the idea of Quad more than a decade ago. In December 2017, President Trump toyed with the idea of reviving Quad 2.0 as a “trump card” to counter China in...
Is ‘guht’ the anagram Biden must solve before calling up President Xi?
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2021
Is China’s Xi Jinping shaping our world? Yes is the answer if you are in Beijing but a definite no if you are in Washington. Is the CPC strongman a ‘thug’? Yes if you are in Washington but a...
Sino-US Conflict: What Realism?
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media — Translation by Hemant Adlakha Source: http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001089199#s=d FTChinese.com Date: September 29,...
Chinese View: Pompeo’s agenda in Japan, South Korea and Mongolia: Push...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media Original article title in...
Chinese View: India thinks it has got the better of China, so it can dare China
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media Original article title in Chinese: 刘宗义: 印度自以为把准了中国的脉，所以敢于咄咄逼人 Professor Liu...
Chinese View: India in 2020 is clumsier than India in 1962!
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media Original article title in Chinese: 《印度这回，比1962年还蠢》September 6, 2020 Originally published by: ...
Chinese View: Indian Army Illegally Crosses LAC again, Occupies Chinese...
By: Hemant Adlakha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2020
The article is presenting what the Chinese are writings in their Media Original article in Chinese:...