ISSUE/POLICY BRIEFS & REPORTS
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CAN THE SECOND XI-MODI SUMMIT TACKLE THE REALLY DIFFICULT ISSUES
In just around a fortnight in mid-October, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in India for his second ‘informal’ meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ancient coastal town of Mamallapuram near Chennai. Xi Jinping is likely to combine it with a visit to neighbouring Nepal where China has in recent years acquired considerable influence, the pace of which has accelerated since installation of the communist government initially under Prachanda. Developments over the past months, however, make any meaningful progress at the Summit unlikely.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Oct 2019 (It was published on https://www.vifindia.org/2019/october/04/can-the-second-xi-modi-summit-tackle-the-really-difficult-issues ) |
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CHINA’S XIAOKANG (WELL-OFF) BORDER DEFENCE VILLAGES IN TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION
Since the 19th Party Congress in October 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping has signalled that extra attention would be paid by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership to building a more comprehensive security structure in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The new architecture strengthens the present security apparatus already in place and combines it with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new initiative of ‘model ‘xiaokang’ (well-off) border defence villages’. It is part of his nationwide push for poverty alleviation spelt out at the 19th Party Congress. The ‘xiaokang’ (well-off) border defence villages’ are also intended to create a buffer inhabited by people loyal to the CCP and the nation.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Sep 2019 |
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INNER-PARTY DIFFERENCES ON HONG KONG ISSUE POSE PROBLEMS FOR XI
JINPING China’s leadership will have been incensed by the photographs and videos of
protestors in Hong Kong carrying American flags and chanting “America please take
over Hong Kong” on September 9, in apparent escalation of the protests against
Chinese rule by millions of Hong Kong residents that have continued over fifteen
weekends in the adverse glare of international media publicity. It would have
underscored the concerns of senior and veteran leaders at the annual gathering in
Beidaihe of a ‘colour revolution’.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Sep 2019 (It was published on https://www.vifindia.org/article/2019/september/16/inner-party-differences-on-hong-kong-issue-pose-problems-for-xi-jinping on 16 September.) |
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THE US-CHINA TRADE WAR: FALL OUT IN CHINA The mood in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy is sombre. The US-China trade war as it is called marks a substantive change in the US-China relationship. Mutual suspicion now taints what Beijing has for decades described as its most important relationship. The bipartisan support that Trump’s new policy towards China enjoys points to strains in the relationship lasting for quite some time and, in any case, fundamentally altering it. Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Aug 2019 |
