Category: INDIA’S CHINA STRATEGY
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CHINA’S STRATEGY OF INDIRECT APPROACH TO CONTAIN INDIA
China is very clearly adopting a strategy of indirect approach as propounded by Sir Liddel Hart to contain India. Having failed to enforce a military solution on India for the past four years and seeing the threats developing on its other fronts combined with internal difficulties, China is using Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka…
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CHINESE DISCOURSES ON INDIA
The popular perception is that there is no discussion about India in China and that they do not regard us their rivals / competitors. That is far from the truth. There is no denial of the fact that the discourse in the Chinese media is dominated by USA. China wants to reach a G2 status…
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China’s Politico Military Strategy In 2025
Xi has deep anxieties on many fronts – economic, diplomatic, demographic and military. China now face four military fronts in Korea, Taiwan, South China Sea and India. It does not want to get into a two front situation. It has failed to enforce a military solution on India. USA is redeploying and reinforcing forces in…
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CHINA INDIA IN THE WORLD ORDER – A CHINESE PERSPECTIVE
In any analysis the first order of business is to know what lies on the other side of the hill. It is in this context that one has to understand the Chinese perspective of where they see China and India in the world order. Logically a country in decline should start altering its ambitions. However…
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INDIA UP AGAINST CHINA PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH
India faces a new security paradigm. It is up against China, Pakistan and Bangladesh which are coalescing together. While each country poses a different challenge, there is an emerging nexus aimed at containing India. While China has withdrawn from the LAC due to its apparent incapacities and internal situation, it is now getting to India…
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China’s Decline is Now Official
The PLA Daily recently declared that China can do with less than 5% GDP Growth and that China needs to abandon ‘Worship of Speed’. Superficially it appears as if the CCP is preparing the Chinese people to accept lower growth rates. However the problem is deeper. This is the beginning of the official decline of…
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HOW TO DEAL WITH A DECLINING CHINA?
Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan (R) outlines the markers of the Chinese Decline. While most people do not believe that China is declining, the facts on the ground say otherwise. There is a huge imbalance in the Chinese system. With time, these imbalances have increased. It is to note that a declining China is worse than…
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Chinese Stimulus is Failing : India Must Not Bail China out.
My article in the Economic Times @ https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/blog/chinese-stimulus-is-failing-what-can-china-do-to-revive-its-economy/115261265?utm_source=latest_news&utm_medium=homepage Lt Gen P R Shankar, ET Government, Published on Nov 14, 2024, The Chinese economy will continue to ail; with or without a stimulus. India must not bail it out. India needs to deal with China from a position of strength and advantage. Despite many naysayers ,…
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CLIMATE CHANGE IN CHINA AND THE LIMITS OF CHINESE POWER Part 1
Climate Change will affect everyone on mother earth. However its effect on China will be profound due to the way China has grown. It places severe limits on Chinese power relative to others. It is already happening. I have just correlated climate related events of the past four years in China . The results are…
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Can China Escape Its Own Traps?
The rapid rise of China is a marvel. However in its rapid rise China has set traps for itself in which it finds itself entrapped and cannot get out of. As China declines these will become more prominent. Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan (R) and I have outlined a few of these traps and examined how…
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