Category Archives: Elsewhere on the Web

• Where are China-India ties headed in 2018? 26 December 2017 | Long Xingchun no comments

  If India would like to meet China halfway and make concerted effort, 2018 will probably become the best year for their bilateral ties. ...

• How China got a US senator to do its political bidding 26 December 2017 | Josh Rogin no comments

  In its effort to cultivate foreign influence, the Chinese Communist Party boldly mixes economic incentives with requests for political favours. Its dealings with Sen Steve Daines, R-Mont, th ...

• Dalai’s mobile app another desperate move: experts 18 December 2017 | Deng Xiaoci one comment

  The recent launch of the Dalai Lama's free mobile application is another desperate move to cover his clique's China-splitting political ambition with religious colour ...

• China urges India to learn lessons from border standoff 13 December 2017 no comments

  The relationship between China and India is not satisfactory in 2017, though it has maintained an overall trend of development, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Indian counterpart. ...

• Mao’s strategy, not Nehru’s policy, led to war: Lintner 12 December 2017 | Indrani Bagchi one comment

  It wasn't Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Forward Policy' of 1961 that caused the war with China in 1962. Instead, evidence and insight make it clear that China was planning to attack India since 1959. ...

• Five years of Xi Jinping: Tibet remains a giant open-air prison 18 November 2017 | John Jones no comments

  Under Xi the policy has been to suffocate Tibet by massively ramping up security and surveillance while cutting it off from the wider world. ...

• US, China success benefits whole world 7 November 2017 | Terry Branstad no comments

  The US and China each have a strong stake in the other's success. And when we succeed, the whole world benefits. ...

• CPC speeds up modernization drive toward “great” socialist China 18 October 2017 no comments

  Xi Jinping painted a particularly optimistic outlook for the future of the world's second-largest economy, promising a "great modern socialist country" by the middle of this century. ...

• Wrong to rail against Dalai Lama for not condemning violence on Rohingya Muslims 13 September 2017 | Omair Ahmad 2 comments

  The Dalai Lama has multiple times condemned attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, but people have turned to blame him, in one of the cases of moral blindness that is shocking in its idiocy ...

• Xinhua Insight: Xi sails BRICS ship on epic voyage 5 September 2017 no comments

  In stormy waters it is common for fishermen in southeast China to set out to sea in groups. Each boat has its own captain, but they will discuss fishing strategies when they return. ...