Tag: China
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION , INDIA & CHINA : A CLAWS PODCAST
An esteemed panel of experts analyze the geopolitical shifts, security dynamics, and economic ties that define this era. Featuring Shri M K Narayanan (Former National Security Advisor), Lt Gen Dushyant Singh, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) | DG CLAWS, Amb Harsh V Shringla (Former Foreign Secretary), Maj Gen Ravi Murugan, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) | DA to Washington,…
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Interview With Dainik Bhaskar on India China Relations During Bhopal Lit Festival
A young reporter from Dainik Bhaskar wanted to interview me on the relations between India and China during the Bhopal Literature Festival. This is in Hindi and a simple short one.
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China’s Strategic Misperception of India
India’s policy toward China the rest of Modi’s term in office will be to continue to adhere to the “3 NOs”: dare not confront, do not want to be neutral, do not want to follow. This is the kind of internal writings in China.
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An Examination of Conventional Weapons Technology of PLA
By Lt Gen PR Shankar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (R) Published in Strategic Reflections, 2024 by CENTRE FOR LAND WARFARE STUDIES (CLAWS), OCT 2024, SABRE & QUILL PUBLISHERS, NEW DELHI. Pages 203- 221 General Transformation of the PLA began with ‘four modernisations’ under Deng Xiaoping. Since then, China has been consistently enhancing its defence expenditure in order to…
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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 2024 : ON A LIMP
China’s big bet on technology will not revive its fortunes as its property sector continues to sink further. The interesting thing is that two new factors of downward pull have emerged – involution and social unrest. Consumption, the likely saviour of China is elusive as its population keeps sinking and its military edge keeps getting…
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FOUR YEARS ON THE LAC IS CHINA’S DEFEAT
The PLA spent four years on the LAC to go back to the points where it started from. What did it achieve? In my opinion – DEFEAT. I have elucidated it in this video. The events of the past four years have been examined against the background of China’s historical actions in Korea, India(62), Vietnam,…
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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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DISENGAEMENT TO DETERRENCE
Lt Gen Raj Shukla and I had a discussion on something India needs to think of very seriously. How to deter China from coming back as it has always done after a step back. India needs to put in place a fail safe layered deterrence mechanism based on persistent surveillance, guaranteeing simultaneous adversity , narrowing…
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