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10.24.16Guess What India and China Need to Improve Relations? More Spies
South China Morning Post
Strange as it may sound, China and India need a basis in espionage to improve their relationship.
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10.06.16Pakistan Tensions Loom Over India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
CNBC
Pakistan may not be officially included in this year's round of talks between India and China, but it's certainly high up on the agenda.
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06.24.16China Has Foiled India's Bid to Join the Nuclear Suppliers Group
Quartz
China insisted any concession extended to India must apply to its nuclear-armed neighbor Pakistan.
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06.13.16Despite Narendra Modi's Stellar Efforts, China Can Still Destroy India's NSG Dreams
Quartz
The 48-member NSG, set up after India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, regulates the trade of nuclear technology.
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04.26.16Visa Rejection Flap Shows China Wants Tighter Grip On Muslim Far West
Forbes
Beijing has pressured India into canceling the visas for a pair of independence activists from Xinjiang.
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12.03.15Sino-Indian Border Talks Not Enough to Defuse Tensions
Diplomat
Unless India and China can take positive actions, they risk drifting into a growing conflict on their disputed border.
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11.23.15Would India Dare Risk Antagonizing China?
Council on Foreign Relations
I found a striking consensus about the relative stability between the two giant Asian neighbors.
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11.18.15India-China Talks Fail To Make Progress on Border Dispute
Defense News
"This is the highest level defense delegation to visit India in the recent years. The visit signifies the enhanced defense exchanges between India and China."
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07.02.15China: The Indian Ocean can’t be India’s backyard
Business Insider
Chinese military officials warn that the Indian Ocean is not India's "backyard" and may result in clashes.
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06.24.15China Opens New Land Route to Tibet for Indian Pilgrims
New York Times
The crossing of Nathu La, between India and Tibet, signals the opening of a new pilgrimage route for Indian pilgrims to holy sites.
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06.01.15Made in Chindia: Giants Take Different Manufacturing Paths
Bloomberg
Made in Chindia: Giants take different manufacturing paths http://www.livemint.com/Politics/5dpo7KGpdaYBigaTctF8BJ/Made-in-Chindia-Giants-take-different-manufacturing-paths.html
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05.15.15Indians From All Over China Are Flocking to Shanghai to Hear Their Prime Minister Speak
Time
More than 5,000 Indian expats are expected to attend an event on Saturday.
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05.13.15Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping Aim to Shelve Rifts Amid Economic Courtship
New York Times
Indian and Chinese officials are promoting Modi’s three-day visit as a business trip filled out with displays of good will.
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05.13.15Why China and India Just Can’t Get Along
Time
A stunning dearth of fraternal ties exist between the two Asian superpowers.
Sinica Podcast
05.11.15
India Comes to China
from Sinica Podcast
This week’s Sincia Podcast is about the upcoming visit to China of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who served from 2001 to 2014 as Chief Minister of Gujarat and was sworn into office almost one year ago this month. Modi’s visit comes at an...
Conversation
04.29.15
Is China Building Up Soft Power by Aiding Nepal?
A devastating earthquake has struck one of China’s smallest neighbors, the mountainous former kingdom known, since 2008, as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Surrounded on three sides by India—known in Nepali as a “friendly nation”—Nepal...
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03.26.15Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?
Harvard Business Review
Companies' quest to cut costs per engineer drives new entrants into using R&D from India and China.
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03.16.15India Should Play Bigger Role in South China Sea, Says Singapore
Bloomberg
India’s involvement in the region could give Southeast Asian nations a further buffer against China.
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02.22.15China Protests India Leader’s Visit to Disputed Border Area
New York Times
A large portion of the Austria-size state is claimed by China, and the two sides fought a border war over the area in 1962.
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02.06.15Q. and A.: Andrew Small on the China-Pakistan Relationship
New York Times
The book “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics” argues that there have always been irritants below the surface.
Environment
12.04.14
Indian Critics of Tibet’s First Dam ‘Exaggerating’ Dangers
from chinadialogue
Tibet’s first major dam, the Zangmu hydropower station, started generating electricity at the end of November. This prompted complaints from Indian media that Chinese dam building on the Yarlung Zangbo River could reduce water flow and cause...
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11.03.14China Celebrates Successful Moon Probe
Telegraph
The mission to the Moon was “another step forward for China's ambition that could eventually land a Chinese citizen there,” Xinhua, China’s official news agency, said. It was “the world's first mission to the Moon and back for some 40...
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10.31.14India-China Border Standoff: High in the Mountains, Thousands of Troops Go Toe-to-Toe
Wall Street Journal
The mountain standoff lasted weeks and at times involved tense shoving-and-shouting matches, according to Indian border-patrol troopers who participated. Both armies called in helicopters. The scale and duration of the clash are signs of mounting...
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09.24.14Once-Banned Modi Embraced by U.S. as China Interests Mesh
Bloomberg
A decade ago, the U.S. saw Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an international pariah. Next week he’ll address a sell-out crowd at Madison Square Garden and stroll down the red carpet at the White House.
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09.22.14China’s Measured Embrace of India
Project Syndicate
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India, the main leg of a recent tour of Central and South Asia, sheds new light on China’s emerging approach to its neighbors, particularly Asia’s other giant.
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09.19.14Dalai Lama: Chinese President Xi Jinping is ‘More Open Minded’
Wall Street Journal
India's support of the Dalai Lama, who fled to India after a Chinese crackdown in the Himalayan region in 1959, has been a source of friction between the two countries.
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09.18.14Towards an Asian Century of Prosperity
Hindu
The combination of the world’s factory and the world’s back office will produce the most competitive production base, writes Xi Jinping , President of China
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07.01.14China to Let Indian Experts Monitor Brahmaputra in Tibet
Hindu
China has for the first time formally agreed to allow Indian hydrological experts to conduct study tours in Tibet to monitor the flows on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, according to a new agreement signed here on Monday during the visit of...
Sinica Podcast
06.27.14
Narendra Modi and Sino-Indian Relations
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy grab Ananth Krishnanin, correspondent for India’s national newspaper The Hindu, and drag him into our studio for a discussion of the state of Sino-Indian relations. In particular, we’re curious why Sino-Indian...
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06.11.14China Cultivates India Amid Tension With Neighbors
ABC
Amid fierce disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, China is reaching out to India in a warming trend that could help ramp up economic exchanges and dissipate decades of distrust between the two giant neighbors.
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06.09.14Commentary: China, India Strategic Partners, not Rivals
Xinhua
China and India have had more high level exchange this past year than in nearly 60 years because they know common development can only be achieved through a strategic cooperative partnership.
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05.29.14India’s Modi and China’s Xi: Frenemies, or Just Plain Enemies?
Time
With two nationalists in power, relations between the world’s two most populous nations could turn even frostier.
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05.27.14International China Welcomes New Indian Government
Associated Press
China is "ready to work with the new Indian government to maintain high-level contact, strengthen cooperation and communication in all areas," former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Ambassador Ashok Kumar Kantha.
Sinica Podcast
05.03.14
Shoptalk on Publishing
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn is pleased to be joined by two people navigating the English-language publishing industry as it involves China: Alice Xin Liu, Editor of Pathlight magazine, and Karen Ma, first-time author of the well-received...
Sinica Podcast
04.14.14
Live at the Association for Asian Studies
from Sinica Podcast
This week, Sinica presents a special live recording from the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) which convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Regular listeners, please note that the audio quality here isn’t up to our usual...
Environment
03.11.14
It’s Time to Cooperate on the Yarlung Tsangpo
from chinadialogue
This is part of a special series of articles produced by thethirdpole.net on the future of the Yarlung Tsangpo river—one of the world’s great transboundary rivers—which starts on the Tibetan Plateau before passing through India and Bangladesh.The...
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01.30.14United Against China?
New York Times
Japan invests in India, and the two countries prepare for potential hostility from China.
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05.17.13India Says China Agrees Retreat to De Facto Border in Faceoff Deal
Reuters
India and China have ended a three-week standoff on a windswept Himalayan plateau where they fought a war 50 years ago by agreeing to pull forces back to positions held before the confrontation.
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05.16.13Border Dispute Between China And India Persists
New York Times
Two weeks ago the Chinese sent an unusual number of military patrols into a remote high-altitude desert at the northern tip of India. As its economic might has grown, China has become increasingly assertive in its territorial claims across...
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08.27.12China Seeks to Increase Mutual Investments with India
Hindu
China has called for a move to boost mutual investments with India as a measure to strengthen trade ties and reshape what officials have acknowledged is an increasingly unbalanced and strained business relationship, as trade talks between both...
Sinica Podcast
09.30.11
The Shanghai Train Accident
from Sinica Podcast
At least 284 people were injured on Tuesday when a train in the Shanghai metro smashed into another which had stalled on the tracks. The accident, which threw Shanghai into disarray, came only two months after another near-disastrous incident on the...
The NYRB China Archive
05.12.11
Quality of Life: India vs. China
from New York Review of Books
The steadily rising rate of economic growth in India has recently been around 8 percent per year (it is expected to be 9 percent this year), and there is much speculation about whether and when India may catch up with and surpass China’s over 10...
Reports
02.08.11
Beyond Symbolism?
Cato Institute
The Obama administration has elevated nuclear disarmament to the center of its nuclear agenda through the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia and the release of the U.S. Nuclear
Posture Review (NPR). The administration also...
Sinica Podcast
12.17.10
China and India
from Sinica Podcast
Asia’s rising colossi share a great deal besides rich cultures, great culinary traditions, billion-plus populations, and a long border. But relations haven’t always been smooth. Have a recent round of border talks, followed up by Premier Wen Jiabao’...
The NYRB China Archive
05.27.10
The Message from the Glaciers
from New York Review of Books
It was not so long ago that the parts of the globe covered permanently with ice and snow, the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greater Himalayas (“the abode of the snows” in Sanskrit), were viewed as distant, frigid climes of little consequence. Only the most...
The NYRB China Archive
12.04.04Passage to China
from New York Review of Books
1.The intellectual links between China and India, stretching over two thousand years, have had far-reaching effects on the history of both countries, yet they are hardly remembered today. What little notice they get tends to come from writers...
The NYRB China Archive
04.22.71
How Aggressive is China?
from New York Review of Books
Peking’s “expansionism” has been the major justification for the United States’s containment policy. The sudden Chinese attack on Indian border forces in October, 1962, was denounced by India as unprovoked aggression, and it still contributes to the...