Category: CHINESE REALITY ANALYSIS
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The China Challenge : Defining the Challenge
The curtain raiser on the China challenge was indeed defining. Lt Gen SL Narasimhan (R) lays it out in bare terms the challenge which is now emerging from China. This is the second time I heard this presentation. It acquired more meaning. This is a must for anyone who is a china watcher , even…
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China on a Prowl by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
It was pretty apparent that China will use technology, diplomacy and its military to revive its economy and also use them to offset its long term problems. Published in The Financial Express @https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/china-on-a-prowl/3052055/ In an earlier article I had opined that in the foreseeable future, the China will exhibit an hard exterior and a brittle interior. It…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : Waning Comprehensive National Power of China
The Pandemic and the Ukraine War have shown that China’s comprehensive national power is waning. The post covid reopening of China has been sluggish at best. It will be a grave mistake if we ascribe great capabilities to China which they do not have. This is based on my article @ https://gunnersshot.com/2023/03/29/pandemic-ukraine-war-and-the-waning-comprehensive-national-power-of-china-by-lt-gen-p-r-shankarr/
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Pandemic, Ukraine War and the Waning Comprehensive National Power of China By Lt Gen P R Shankar(R)
Over the past two years, the pandemic and the Ukraine war have upended some Chinese myths. Many popular assumptions of China and its CNP have been laid bare. Published in The Financial Express @ https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/pandemic-ukraine-war-and-the-waning-comprehensive-national-power-of-china/3025926/ In the pre-pandemic period it was thought that China’s Comprehensive National Power (CNP) was increasing rapidly. It was deemed to…
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China’s Hard Exterior and Brittle Interior in A Peek Into Everyday China
China is developing a hard exterior as Xi Jinping attempts to establish a Sino Centric World Order. However it is beset by internal problems which will only increase as days go by. This is the new China which is emerging. One needs to be cognisant of this since China sees India as a country which…
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Post COVID China: Hard Exterior and Brittle Interior by Lt Gen PR Shankar (R)
To understand this, one must start with the economy. China and the CCP are GDP fixated. China has always set hard growth rates and striven to achieve them. The fundamental precept of the Chinese political economy has been getting high GDP growth rates and achieving them. Published in The Financial Express @ https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/post-covid-china-hard-exterior-and-brittle-interior/3017859/ Post Zero-Covid,…
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China’s Climatic Scourge in A Peek Into Everyday China
Droughts and floods have been endemic to China from time immemorial. Many Chinese dynasties have collapsed due to drought, famines and floods. Recent events indicate that China faces this harsh reality. I have tried to analyse the likely effect of climate change on China.
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Big Worry
China has some major problems which I tried to put across in as simple a method as possible in these videos in hindi and English Une analyse très incisive, visionnement de cette vidéo fortement recommandé…this was the comment of one of the viewers…it translates into ..a very incisive analysis, viewing this video strongly recommended…the rest…
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Chinese Vulnerability : A Discussion With Aadi
China is showing a vulnerability not seen in the recent past. Aadi and I discuss the factors driving the vulnerability.
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A Peek Into Everyday China : In The Fragile Zone
There is a new fragility about China which one has not seen in the past quarter of a century. The post Zero Covid China is a far different animal than one we saw in the run up to the 20 Party Congress in which Xi anointed himself as the emperor. The emergent fragility in China…
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