China Studies as a whole brings into perspective the rising power's mounting economic, military and diplomatic clout that certainly has the aptitude to either overturn or sustain the current contemporary world order. The Center broadly examines China's international strategic thinking and conduct, foreign and security policy, and the impact of domestic politics and economy on China's foreign relations. It further addresses China's emergence in the face of the world in flux, domestic politics, economy, society, culture, People's Liberation Army and Tibet Autonomous Region and most importantly her engagement with each of South Asian country.
Cults of personalities for centuries enabled the survival of innumerable dynasties and dynasts by constructing a perception where an individual is essential for the survival or prosperity of the state by inextricably affiliating themselves with the state. Putin and Xi are prime examples of this ...
Five years on, the BRI narrative has not only focused on hard infrastructures like railways or hydropower but also on areas like digital technology through its digital silk road, on global health governance through its health silk road and fostering people to people relationship and so on. ...
China has moved away from risk-averse satellite projects and has ventured into high risk areas in space technology like human spaceflight and deep space exploration ...
The pandemic has also played a significant role in reinvigorating the old ties in the region, which suggests that the post-pandemic relations in South East Asia would see a strengthening. ...
France’s growing defense cooperation with New Delhi and Taiwan is in opposition to China’s regional interests. These strategic and ideological contradictions hinder the scope of the Sino-French partnership beyond a particular limit. ...
The Chinese have already acquired overseas bases at Maldives and Hambanthota in Sri Lanka, Chittagong in Bangladesh, Gwadar in Pakistan and Chabahar in Iran are in process ...
it is possible that there could be shifts in the balance of Russia-China relations in the future and that Russia recalibrates its relationship with China though this might be difficult considering its overdependence on China for trade and investments and its current rupture with the West. ...
The fiasco of 1962 and the failure of Panchasheela, which should have led to a massive rethinking of India’s strategy vis-à -vis the border and China, instead gave way to a state of limbo in the relationship ...
The current hostilities might be an American strategy to bring the Chinese back to the negotiation table and it is in China’s interest to devise a smart strategy to forge economic alliances with the US ...
China-Iran Deal: Headache for New Delhi ...
The enlarging Sino-Iranian cooperation between Beijing and Tehran is a blow for New Delhi’s strategic calculations. However, the range and depth of these challenges would be determined by the extent of Beijing’s advance in dealing with the conflicts of interest involved ...