True, Russia had attacked Ukraine in 2014, and in the spring of 2021 had staged a dress rehearsal for an invasion, building up forces on the frontier before sending them home. Putin seemed ever angrier at Kyiv’s refusal to bow to his will. He openly derided Ukrainian national identity and […]
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India Enhanced Overall Military Capability In 2022
India embarked on a major overdrive in 2022 to significantly bolster its overall military prowess and focused on its strategic goals in South Asia as a fresh attempt of transgression in the Tawang sector by the Chinese troops amid the unresolved eastern Ladakh border standoff renewed the focus on the […]
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Biden’s Half-Hearted Policy Towards Southeast Asia
But showing up in Southeast Asia was not the only way the administration stepped up its engagement. In May, Biden hosted a historic U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit at the White House, bringing together nearly all ASEAN leaders. (Myanmar’s junta leader was not invited , and then-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte did not […]
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Mao’s Strategy Inspires Afghan Guerrillas and Chinese Planners
Mao’s military philosophies grew out of his experiences as a revolutionary leader in the Chinese Civil War. Mao’s ragtag band of communist guerrillas was malnourished, poorly clothed, poorly armed, and poorly trained. As Chinese propaganda proudly states, the Red Army of the 1930s was constantly on the verge of starvation […]
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China Can No Longer Deny Its Shrinking Population
If you would like to receive China Brief in your inbox every Wednesday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: China records negative population growth for the first time in decades, the government’s new COVID-19 death toll remains a serious underestimate, and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He speaks […]
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Washington Is Missing a Chance to Turn China Against Russia
First, on a visit to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan last September, Xi pledged to “resolutely” support its sovereignty, a snub to Moscow. Then at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting that same month, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly and unprecedentedly acknowledged China’s “questions and concerns” over the war in […]
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Chinese-invested cement firm reaches ‘drowning’ stage in Nepal
According to EPardafas, the largest cement company in Nepal with Chinese investment, Hongshi Cement Industry, has reached a point where it is “drowning due to internal disputes,” and Nepalese investors have left the board of directors after the industry’s economic situation deteriorated as a result of the “arbitrary decisions of […]
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Delay in road project by China causing casualties in Nepal
Only 23% of the East-West Highway’s Butwal-Narayanghat section’s road widening has been completed in 48 months. According to the online magazine epardafas.com, a Chinese contractor’s unfinished project is now contributing to traffic accidents. The project had to be finished by mid-July 2022, according to the Asian Development Bank, which provided […]