China recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet.
Suddenly China, slapped with over 100 per cent tariffs by the United States, is sidling up to our side.
The United States cannot act recklessly and the wheels of history cannot be reversed, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
The relationship between India and China, two of the oldest civilizations in the world, has been a saga marked by both shared history and contentious moments.
South Korea's Acting President Han Duck-soo has said South Korea will not form a coalition with China and Japan to jointly respond to US tariff measures, but seeks to resolve related issues through negotiations with Washington.
The expanded trade had not helped Nepal not the least because it contended with a huge deficit. China has now restricted the issue of visas to Nepali traders who have been forced to place orders virtually. Many traders have complained that they have been shortchanged in terms of quality as they had to place orders virtually.
Prime Minister Nehru was hardly worried about the protection of our borders that depended on Tibets independence. He did not want to intervene in the internal affairs of another country because he accepted Tibet as part of China. His attitude was exposed in his meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1956. The Dalai Lamas escape to India in 1959 and his asylum are usually highlighted. Rarely does the Dalai Lamas first meeting with Nehru come into the public domain
The two sides will consider how they could deescalate the situation at the remaining friction points in Eastern Ladakh where they have been involved in the face-off since April-May 2020.
It is entirely in Beijing’s interest that the US-led West, which had disentangled itself from West Asia and the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre to focus its strategic energies on the Indo-Pacific to counter the threat of a rampant China, be waylaid in Europe. That is a huge relief for Beijing which was getting cornered in the Asia-Pacific.
China is going to increase its military budget to USD 229.5 billion in 2022, according to the draft budgetary proposals released on Saturday.
