ICS In The Media

Srikanth Kondapalli

China has taken the arms race to a different level

‘China recently demonstrated an “assassin’s mace” weapon that has the US and Russia worried, for different reasons. For the US, China’s flight test of a manoeuvrable hypersonic glide‘

Deccan Herald
4 Dec 2021

Srikanth Kondapalli

Amid signs of Cold War 2.0, China ups ante to be recognised as world’s pre-eminent power

‘The seemingly uneventful Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting last fortnight exposed the two diametrically opposite positions, raising concerns on increasing destabilising portends‘

First Post
1 Dec 2021

M V Rappai

The Chinese Communist Party’s ambitious agenda

‘It may be a mere coincidence that the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) delegation at the United Nation’s Climate Summit in Glasgow, agreed to work more‘

Hindustan Times
29 Nov 2021

Anurag Viswanath

China: Sex, censorship, videos & gender – What Peng Shuai case tells us about the state of women and treatment of MeToo victims in the country

‘China’s MeToo scandal involving a high-ranking Communist Party official Zhang Gaoli (former vice-premier) and tennis star Peng Shuai has taken the world by storm.‘

The Times Of India
24 Nov 2021

Shyam Saran

Nehru was way ahead of his time. Seeing him through a 20/20 lens is wrong

‘The 132nd birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was observed on 14 November. I say “observed” because it was not celebrated as it should have been.‘

The Print
17 Nov 2021

Srikanth Kondapalli

At CoP26, China’s cop-out on Xi’s ‘driver’s seat’ ambition

‘At the ongoing CoP26 at Glasgow to discuss reduction in carbon emissions, much attention is on China as the largest polluter in the world since the last decade‘

Deccan Herald
7 Nov 2021

Shyam Saran

India can’t turn into another China. It must protect our ‘mother nature’ from danger

‘The climate change summit in Glasgow is probably the last chance for the assembled leaders of the world to avoid catastrophic‘

The Print
3 Nov 2021

Hemant Adlakha

Is Biden a Cold War Warrior? A Typical US Politician? Or Both? Or None?

‘In less than one year as president, Joe Biden already enjoys a unique distinction of two outstanding achievements: first, thanks to his Afghanistan folly, he is the first US president‘

Modern Diplomacy
29 Oct 2021

Gautam Bambawale

New law doesn’t stop China from violating other’s territory

‘China's legislature, the National People's Congress, adopted a new Land Borders Law of the People's Republic of China‘

The Economic Times
26 Oct 2021

Alka Acharya

Chronicler With a Movie Camera

‘A historian finds a box of old papers at home. She rummages through it and finds a diary she wrote some 64 years ago during a three-month visit to China in 1957.‘

Outlook
18 Oct 2021