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China kicks off the Asian Games with no fireworks and a parade of global leaders
Asia’s version of the Olympics kicked off with dazzling light shows, an esports debut, and a slew of top dignitaries in attendance. Xi courted top Syrian and South Korean officials amid the fanfare, but his government also raised fresh tensions in its border dispute with India.
September 25, 2023 Source: The China Project
Li at G20, Xi in northern China
The Group of 20 summit concluded in New Delhi yesterday. Xi Jinping did not attend and instead visited flood-damaged areas of northeastern China, sending his second-in-command to India in his place.
September 11, 2023 Source: The China Project
BRICS agrees to add new members as Xi hails ‘historic’ decision
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will be admitted to the BRICS club. It remains to be seen if the enlarged bloc’s members can agree on anything substantial, and counterbalance the West.
August 24, 2023 Source: The China Project
The real reason to pay attention to BRICS
BRICS is an awkward group, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. But its appeal across the Global South shows that resentment about Western global leadership is emerging as an umbrella issue uniting countries as disparate as communist Cuba and anti-communist Indonesia.
August 17, 2023 Source: The China Project
How to read the People’s Daily: Q&A with Manoj Kewalramani
Manoj Kewalramani is an Indian researcher whose interpretations of the People’s Daily, the flagship propaganda broadsheet of the Chinese Communist Party, provide a daily guide to how China leaders are thinking. He is also one of the most perspicacious observers of India-China relations.
August 11, 2023 Source: The China Project
Political turmoil, separatist violence threaten China’s investments in Pakistan
China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng is in Pakistan talking up cooperation. But Pakistan’s fragile government in Islamabad also has to deal with local resentments at Beijing’s massive infrastructure projects, and its own complicated relationship with Washington.
August 2, 2023 Source: The China Project
Inconvenient India — America’s new best friend in the Indo-Pacific
The U.S. is cozying up to India partly in response to tensions with China. But no one in Washington, D.C., is quite sure how the new friendliness with Delhi will work out and what values will have to be tossed aside to make the relationship work.
July 10, 2023 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for June 23, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
June 23, 2023 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for May 31, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
May 31, 2023 Source: The China Project
Leader of Central Tibetan Administration says he wants ‘genuine autonomy,’ not ‘independence’
The leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile recently visited the U.K., where he called for resolving “the Sino-Tibet conflict in nonviolent, peaceful means.”
May 26, 2023 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for April 25, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
April 25, 2023 Source: The China Project
Uneasy smiles between China and India at G20 meeting
The Chinese and Indian foreign ministers met, in the latest awkward dance move between the two Asian giants who have an unresolved border dispute and different reasons for saying nothing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
March 2, 2023 Source: The China Project
China’s BYD to launch luxury electric sedan in India
Despite geopolitical tensions between Delhi and Beijing, electric vehicle brand BYD is making a big play in the Indian market.
January 12, 2023 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for December 20, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
December 20, 2022 Source: The China Project
Military buildups along disputed border stoke fears of escalation between China and India
After the latest skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control, Delhi has responded to renewed Chinese activity with a military buildup and road construction on its side of the contested border.
December 20, 2022 Source: The China Project
Chinese and Indian border troops clash for the first time since 2020
A skirmish between Chinese and Indian soldiers broke out last week in the western theater of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), stoking fears of violent clashes to come.
December 13, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for Tuesday, October 4, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
October 4, 2022 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for Monday, September 12, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
September 12, 2022 Source: The China Project
BRICS summit kicks off in Beijing
In a virtual keynote speech to the group, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hit out at sanctions for “weaponizing” the global economy, while shoring up Beijing’s awkward position of neutrality on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
June 23, 2022 Source: The China Project
China and India are more different than they are aligned
Manjari Chatterjee Miller and Manoj Kewalramani share their insight into the complex relationship between China and India in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
April 28, 2022 Source: The China Project