China’s Strategy

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“I fear they’re outsmarting us over and over again,” says China expert Michael Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.” Pillsbury played a key role in the United States initiating military and…

Xi Jinping has become the formidable political adversary that Narendra Modi lacks at home. The Chinese president has posed the kind of questions of Modi’s leadership that Mao Zedong once asked of Jawaharlal Nehru — leading to India’s first prime minister presiding over a humiliating defeat from which he emerged…

Xi Jinping has become the formidable political adversary that Narendra Modi lacks at home. The Chinese president has posed the kind of questions of Modi’s leadership that Mao Zedong once asked of Jawaharlal Nehru — leading to India’s first prime minister presiding over a humiliating defeat from which he emerged…

Abstract The potency and overwhelming lethal effects of cyber warfare have outpaced the technological development in conventional military weapons space, changing the very character of future wars, and the role of cyber warfare in them. Worldwide cyber warfare is now being acknowledged as the fifth dimension of warfare. In the…

Pakistan is considered a very important strategic pillar for China to contain India in the South Asian region and a powerful counterbalance to the rising India. China will exploit every possible chance to encourage Pakistan to act on Indian interests, but chess pieces manipulated by Beijing may not achieve what…

Anadolu Agency/GettyKARACHI—The battle raged for hours between two nuclear powers on Monday, fought in a contested valley high in the legendary Karakoram mountain range. But the weapons used were as primitive as they were brutal: iron rods wrapped in barbed wire, bare fists, and anything that came to hand. When…

The deadly clashes at Galwan and the ongoing standoff between India and China on the ridges or “fingers” around the Pangong Tso are a metaphor for the wider conflict between the two countries over all the areas that Chinese strategy refers to as the “five fingers of the Tibetan palm”.…

By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: June 18, 2020 8:02:12 am Indian army soldiers rest next to artillery guns at a makeshift transit camp before heading to Ladakh, near Baltal, southeast of Srinagar. (Photo: Reuters)The deaths of 20 soldiers in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, where Indian and…

A clash between Indian and Chinese security forces in a disputed area of the Himalayan mountains has left at least 12 people dead and possibly dozens injured, reports said Tuesday, marking the first time soldiers have been killed in a confrontation between the two militaries in more than four decades.…