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This Is What Could Start a War between India and China ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Palmo Tenzin)

INS Jalashwa underway ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Palmo Tenzin While everyone’s anxiously watching and analyzing the events unraveling in the South China Sea, there’s another resource conflict involving China that also deserves attention. In the Himalayas, China and India are competing for valuable hydropower and water resources on the Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra River. The dispute offers some important lessons for regional cooperation (on more than just water), and highlights what’s at stake if China and India mismanage their resource conflict. The Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra River is a 2,880km transboundary river that originates in Tibet, China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, before flowing through northeast India as the Brahmaputra River and Bangladesh as the Jamuna River. The resource conflict began on June 11, 2000, after a natural dam-burst in Tibet caused a flash flood that resulted in 30 deaths and serious damage to infrastr

Modi’s China Visit: Beijing Remains Unyielding – Analysis ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Namrata Hasija)

Image credits- Flickr / MEA Official gallery Source- Eurasia Review Author- Namrata Hasija The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently concluded his three-nation tour of China, Mongolia and South Korea. Of the three, the most anticipated was the visit to China, after which both sides have claimed to have achieved ground breaking results. From the Indian point of view there were some important issues that were on the table for discussion, such as the border issue, trade imbalance, water sharing and Chinese investment in India. The imperative question is what did Prime Minister Modi bring back for India? A record 45 agreements were signed during the visit, including 24 inter-governmental agreements in outer space, cyberspace, earthquake preparedness, maritime science, smart cities, consular establishment, finance, education, exchanges between political parties, states and provinces, think tanks and so on. In the field of economics, 21 business agreements were

The Chinese 'Century' Is Already Over ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Gordon G.Chang)

Image source- Flickr / Credits- MEA Official gallery Source- The National Interest Author- Gordon G. Chang On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry completed a two-day trip to Beijing. The day before, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his three-day visit to Xian, Shanghai, and Beijing. Everyone, it seems, is going to China, implicitly acknowledging that this is indeed its century. In reality, however, the period of Chinese primacy, if it ever existed, is just about over. Neither Modi nor Kerry was in any mood to accommodate Beijing on core issues. We start with Modi. The Indian leader was happy to travel to China to pick up commitments for Chinese investment into his country, and on this score, he appeared successful. On Saturday, he inked twenty-six memos of understanding for business deals valued by his government at $22 billion.  Modi, however, was not persuaded to agree to what Beijing wanted. He did not, for instance, endorse Chinese pre

India’s Newfound Spine in Dealing with China ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Harsh V.Pant)

Prime Minister Modi in China  ( Image source- Flickr ? Credits- MEA Official gallery) Source- The Diplomat Author- Harsh V.Pant For all the pomp and circumstance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to China will likely only be remembered for his plain-speaking. And it is by no means a small achievement. For years, Indian political leaders have gone to China and said what the Chinese wanted to hear. Modi changed all that when he openly “stressed the need for China to reconsider its approach on some of the issues that hold us back from realizing full potential of our partnership” and “suggested that China should take a strategic and long-term view of our relations.” In his speech at Tsinghua University too, Modi went beyond the rhetorical flourishes of Sino-Indian cooperation and pointed out the need to resolve the border dispute and in the interim, clarify the Line of Actual Control to “ensure that our relationships with other countries do not become a source of c

India and China Slug It Out in South Asia ( Source- The Diplomat, Author- Harsh V.Pant)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ Author- Sujna Source- The Diplomat Author- Harsh V.Pant Last week India decided to send five planes and two ships carrying water and machinery parts to Maldives, after drinking water was cut off for more than 100,000 residents in the nation’s capital of Male due to a fire in the city’s only water sewage treatment plant. The Indian Navy’s patrol vessel INS Sukanya carried 35 tons of fresh water and two reverse osmosis plants, which can produce 20 tons of fresh water per day to meet the water crisis in Maldives. India’s large fleet tanker delivered about 900 tonnes of fresh water to the Maldivian capital, while two C-17 planes of the Indian Air Force (IAF) also delivered another 90 tonnes of potable water. Maldives, located southwest of India in the Indian Ocean, depends entirely on treated seawater as the low-lying island nation has no natural water source . Accordingly, Maldives asked for help from various countries including India, C

How to Deal with Chinese Assertiveness: It's Time to Impose Costs ( Source- The National Interest, Author- Patrick M. Cronin)

PLAN Sailors ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons Source- The National Interest Author- Patrick M. Cronin China’s reemergence as a wealthy and powerful nation is a fact. In recent decades its rise has been unprecedented, moving from the tenth-largest economy in 1990, to the sixth-largest economy in 2001, to the second-largest economy in 2010. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China now surpasses the United States in terms of purchasing power parity. By the same measure, China’s economy was only half the size of America’s a decade earlier, and it is this trajectory that is molding assumptions about the future regional power balance and order across the Indo-Pacific. Recent declines in growth and rising questions about future stability have yet to alter most perceptions about tomorrow’s China. China’s deepening integration with the regional and global economy underscore the difficulty of pushing back when China transgresses rules and norms. Take the issu

Coming to the Indian Ocean, the Chinese Navy: How Should India Respond? ( Copy Right @ The National Interest, Author- James Holmes)

INS Kolkata, D-63 ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Sources- The National Interest Author- James Holmes Chinese submarines prowling South Asia’s briny deep? No longer is this some hypothetical prospect. A nuclear-powered People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 093 Shang-class attack boat was sighted cruising regional waters last winter. Indian naval proponents long maintained that Beijing would cross a redline if it dispatched nuclear subs to the Indian Ocean. It would set Sino-Indian maritime competition in motion—a seesaw process with unforeseeable repercussions. And just last month, a Type 039 Song-class diesel-electric boat put in an appearance in the region, tarrying at Colombo in company with a submarine tender. The Song was presumably en route to counterpiracy duty in the Gulf of Aden. And indeed, these undersea patrols set commentators aflutter on the subcontinent. “China’s Submarines in Indian Ocean Worry Indian Navy,” blared a typical headline. Why get exercised ov