The BRI, a pet initiative of President Xi, is aimed at promoting network of roads, ports and rail networks all over the world to spread China's influence.
Since China began this buildup, the Indian side says Chinese troops will have to start the de-escalation. Only then will Indian troops go back. The June 6 meeting agreed to this roadmap.
Indian elections are won and lost on 'negative' imageries and campaigns - but not certainly on 'negativity' as a political trait and electoral creed, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The Indian Army's surveillance had noticed the Chinese movements.' 'There was no intelligence failure.'
'If you behave like a nail, the adversary will behave like a hammer.'
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a media briefing in Beijing that "at the moment the situation in the boundary region between China and India is overall stable and controllable".
China on Friday hiked its defence budget to $209 billion, maintaining a single-digit growth for the sixth consecutive year with a 6.8 per cent increase in 2021.
'I strongly urge China to respect norms and use diplomacy and existing mechanisms to resolve its border questions with India'
The spiritual leader on Saturday addressed devotees speaking to them about the pratices of Boddhisattavas at the Yid GaChosin monastery in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
India will maintain territorial integrity in Doklam, the Raksha Mantri said.
The last conversation between the two leaders was on April 4 on the issue of hydroxychloroquine.
Ogyen Trinley Dorje hopes to get a university education, but will the government allow it? Anand Sankar wonders.
'Shastri told General Chaudhuri, 'I want to reach Lahore before they enter Kashmir'.' 'Today, many regard this initiative of Shastri as the first surgical strike.' A revealing excerpt from Dr Sandeep Shastri's Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics And Beyond.
It also dismissed Jaitley's remarks that India of 2017 is different from what it was in 1962, saying China too is different.
The Chinese action followed 'India's recent, illegal construction of defence facilities across the border into Chinese territory in the Galwan Valley region', a write-up in the state-run Global Times tabloid said, quoting unnamed military sources.
If the Taliban have proved one thing over these two decades, it is that they are way smarter than their big brother, observes Shekhar Gupta.
All democratic countries including India should stay away from the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, beginning in August, in order to protest the violent incidents in Tibet, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief K S Sudarshan said on Friday. The RSS chief was speaking at a function organised by the Tibetan Solidarity Committee, seeking support for the cause of the people of Tibet.
Once the tanks roll back, a zero-based assessment of future equations with China is necessary. Given the conflict situations that China is imposing on India time and again, the red, amber and green lines of interactions with China need to be laid down and communicated in no uncertain terms, asserts Srikanth Kondapalli, the leading China expert.
The Dalai Lama gestures as he leaves Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai on Monday. The Dalai Lama was discharged from the hospital four days after he was admitted with abdominal discomfort.
The United States on Monday welcomed resumption of dialogue between China and representatives of the Dalai Lama and said the talks should address the Tibetan complaints about freedom of religion and cultural values. The Dalai Lama's envoys and representatives of China's government on Sunday met in Shenzen for the first time since the unrest erupted in Tibet in March. China did some tough talking, asking the Dalai Lama to make credible moves to stop violence.
China on Monday said that the latest round of talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama failed to make progress on the vexed Tibet issue and vowed that it would never compromise on the status of the Himalayan region.The Chinese side held parleys with Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, the two envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The unification of the motherland, territorial integrity and national dignity are the greatest interests of the Chinese people, it said.
Safety fears rose for the relay in Australia after Chinese students called pro-Tibet supporters 'scum'.
The reasons for China's negative response are located in its territorial dispute with India but also to its grand designs of dominating the region from its previous position of being merely a "balancer" between India and Pakistan, points out Srikanth Kondapalli, Professor in Chinese Studies at JNU.
The Tibetan refugees in Kashmir on Wednesday staged protests against the Chinese action in Lhasa, calling on the international community to mount pressure on China to halt rights violations in Tibet. Scores of placard-carrying protestors marched through the main market square in Srinagar, after staging a sit-in at a local park.
