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Only Pirates do this Phillipines to China

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UPDATE: Is China preparing for another war with India? The US thinks it is!! According to a recent report by the US Pentagon, China has continued to build new roads, helipads, bridges, airports, and even new villages along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India! Moreover, China has also reportedly deployed more troops in the region and the same is expected to continue throughout 2023!!

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Indo-China Relation: Why Are India-China Relations Not Improving Despite Increasing Trade, Tension On The Border Will Affect Relations, Know History Of'Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai'

Indo-China Relation: Why Are India-China Relations Not Improving Despite Increasing Trade, Tension On The Border Will Affect Relations, Know History Of’Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai’

India China Relation: हाल के कुछ वर्षों में भारत-चीन (India-China) के संबंध सबसे बुरे दौर में पहुंच चुका है. अरुणाचल प्रदेश के तवांग (Tawang) में चीन की सैनिकों ने जो उकसावे वाली कार्रवाई की है, उस पर भारत में तो संसद से सड़क तक चर्चा हो ही रही है. अंतर्राष्ट्रीय नजरिए से भी ये मुद्दा बहुत बड़ा बन गया है. अमेरिका के साथ ही संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने भी इस घटना पर अपनी प्रतिक्रिया दी है. दरअसल इस वक्त…

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Ram Charan Takes Selfies With Kids Of Galwan Braveheart At NDTV's True Legend

Ram Charan Takes Selfies With Kids Of Galwan Braveheart At NDTV’s True Legend

Ram Charan in a nonetheless from the video. (courtesy: HereFoRamCharan) New Delhi: Ram Charan, who was honoured for achievement in Entertainment at NDTV’s True Legend final week, obtained a complete lot of affection from his followers after a video from the occasion went viral on social media. In the video, which has been curated by a number of fan pages devoted to the actor, Ram Charan could be…

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Two incidents of skirmishes between Indian, Chinese troops along LAC come to light

NEW DELHI — At least two previously unknown incidents of skirmishes between the Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) have come to light with citations for gallantry awards conferred on Indian Army personnel mentioning them. The citations, read out at an investiture ceremony by the Army’s Western Command last week, provided brief details of how the Indian troops…

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Galwan hero's wife becomes Army officer, posted in Ladakh

New Delhi :Rekha Singh, wife of Naik Deepak Singh who was killed in the Galwan Valley clashes in 2020, has been commissioned into the Indian Army as a Lieutenant, officials said on Saturday.She has been posted to a frontline base along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, they said Lt Singh on Saturday completed her one-year training at the Chennai-based Officers Training Academy…

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Sepoy Ganesh Hansda’s life was extinguished too soon, but his story lives on in the hearts of Jharkhand’s tribals. SUDHIR KUMAR MISHRA meets the movie crew that intends to tell this soldier’s tale to all Indians,  

Visit now : https://theindiantribal.com/2022/07/28/variety-entertainment-jollywood-film-on-jharkhand-tribal-teen-martyred-at-galwan-set-for-september-release/

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Richa Chadha Controversy | Bollywood & South Star's Reaction On Richa Ch...

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Just found someone referring to a new “wolf’s fang“ mace that China is now developing, seems like we’ve got a full on arms race going on where they can’t use firearms

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Activist calls for border march in Ladakh to mark land lost to China

The march would be taken out in the north and south banks of Pangong Tso lake, Demchok, Chushul among others along the Line of Actual Control with China; two dates are shortlisted — March 27 and April 7

Around 10,000 people from Ladakh will march to the border along China this month to showcase how much land has been lost to the neighbouring country, climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk said on Tuesday.

Mr. Wangchuk has been protesting in open in sub-zero temperature in Leh, surviving only on salt and water for the past 14 days, to demand constitutional safeguards for the Union Territory.

“We know from the shepherds that they are not allowed [anymore] to go to the places that they always used to go. In particular areas, they are stopped kilometres before where they used to go earlier. We will go and show whether land has been lost or not,” Mr. Wangchuk said.

The march would be taken out in Finger area (north and south bank of Pangong Tso), Demchok, Chushul among others along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

He said two dates have been shortlisted for the march — March 27 and April 7.

“The march will also highlight the areas, prime pasture lands, that are being turned into solar parks. On one hand, nomads are losing their land to corporates who are coming to set up their plants, maybe mining in future. Nomads will lose 150,000 sq km of prime pasture land, on the other hand they are losing pasture land to China which is encroaching from the north, the Chinese have captured huge chunks of land in the last few years,” he said.

After the June 15, 2020 incident in Galwan where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in violent clashes with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, several rounds of talks between the two armies have taken place leading to disengagement and creation of buffer zones or no-go areas. These areas in eastern Ladakh were regularly patrolled before April 2020 when China started amassing troops close to the LAC. At least 26 patrolling points out of total 65 PPs in Eastern Ladakh are not being patrolled due to the border dispute.

At the centre of Mr. Wangchuk’s protest that has received huge support from the locals is the failure of talks between Ladakh civil society leaders and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on March 4.

The members of Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) representing the Buddhist majority and Shia Muslim dominated regions respectively in Ladakh, are jointly protesting for Statehood for Ladakh, inclusion of Ladakh in the sixth schedule of the constitution thus giving it a tribal status, job reservation for locals and a parliamentary seat each for Leh and Kargil.

Though ministry officials had in previous rounds of meetings agreed to examine how the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution can be implemented in Ladakh’s context, the meeting with Mr. Shah “did not result in any positive outcome”.

“Government has been declining to keep their promise on Sixth Schedule. The Home Minister said we cannot give this but we will give you some constitutional safeguard,” Mr. Wangchuk said adding that he wants to awaken the people of India to this “breach of trust”.

“People are disillusioned, disenchanted and angry. There is no chance BJP will win a seat here in the upcoming elections. But this is not only for Ladakh, am trying to awaken the nation, if this is how election promises are honoured, then elections are a joke. Why did we vote this party to power twice?” he said. Ladakh’s only parliamentary seat was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014 and 2019.

After the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was revoked by the Parliament on August 5, 2019, Ladakh was turned into a Union Territory without any legislative assembly.

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India says it has lodged a "strong protest" with China over a new map that lays claim to its territory.

Indian media have reported that the map shows the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed Aksai Chin plateau as China's territory.

It was released by China's ministry of natural resources on Monday.

"We reject these claims as they have no basis," India's foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.

He added that such steps by China "only complicate the resolution of the boundary question".

Beijing has not officially responded yet.

India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar also called China's claim "absurd".

"China has even in the past put out maps which claim the territories which are not China's, which belong to other countries. This is an old habit of theirs," he told TV channel NDTV on Tuesday.

India's protest comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on the sidelines of the Brics summit in South Africa. An Indian official said afterwards that the two countries had agreed to "intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement and de-escalation" along the disputed border.

Shadow of 60-year-old war at India-China flashpoint

The Indian monastery town coveted by China

India has often reacted angrily to China's attempts to stake claim to its territory.

The source of the tension between the neighbours is a disputed 3,440km (2,100 mile)-long de facto border along the Himalayas - called the Line of Actual Control, or LAC - which is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps means the line can shift in places.

Soldiers on either side come face to face at many points, which can spark tensions - the last time being in December when Indian and Chinese troops clashed along the border in the town of Tawang.

China says it considers the whole of Arunachal Pradesh its territory, calling it "South Tibet" - a claim India firmly rejects. India claims the Aksai Chin plateau in the Himalayas, which is controlled by China.

In April, Delhi reacted sharply to China's attempts to rename 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, saying the state would always be "an "integral and inalienable part of India".

Relations between India and China have worsened since 2020, when their troops were involved in a deadly clash at the Galwan valley in Ladakh - it was the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975.

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During the recent G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got up from the banquet table to shake hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping and have a brief conversation—their first in-person exchange in three years. Although both sides remain tight-lipped about the interaction, it nonetheless raised hopes among observers of a breakthrough in their 30-month border crisis, which began with a deadly clash in Ladakh in 2020. But any resolution that might emerge will not dispel the challenge posed by massive changes at the border undertaken by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

This marks the third straight winter that around 50,000 Indian reinforcements will spend in Ladakh’s inhospitable terrain in the northern Himalayas, warding off an equal number of Chinese troops stationed a few miles away. Despite intermittent dialogue between the two militaries, Indian Army Chief Gen. Manoj Pande recently confirmed that China has not reduced its forces at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Chinese infrastructure construction along the border is “going on unabated,” he said—confirmed by independent satellite imagery and echoed by the latest U.S. Defense Department report on China. Pande said the situation is “stable but unpredictable.” That unpredictability has become structural.

India and China have so far held 16 rounds of border talks between senior military commanders as well as numerous diplomatic and political engagements, but an agreement on actions to reduce the tensions in Ladakh has been slow to materialize. Of the seven areas in Ladakh where Indian and Chinese soldiers have faced one another since 2020, two have seen no change while the rest have seen each side take a limited step back. The challenge for India is becoming more concerning on the eastern part of the LAC—between the state of Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet—where China has an infrastructure and military advantage, putting New Delhi on the defensive.

The widening power gap between India and China—military, technological, economic, and diplomatic—now constrains New Delhi’s options on the border. It also raises tough questions for India’s geopolitical partnerships, such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (known as the Quad), and its aggressive approach toward Pakistan. The border crisis will hang over India’s decision-making for the foreseeable future.

In October, the Chinese Communist Party held its 20th National Congress, and Xi assumed an unprecedented third term as leader. Among the images broadcasted at the Great Hall of the People minutes before Xi ascended the stage was a video from the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, where at least 20 Indian soldiers and 4 PLA soldiers died in a clash in June 2020. The videos showed PLA regiment commander Qi Fabao standing with his arms outstretched to stop Indian soldiers from advancing. Qi was selected to be a delegate to the Party Congress, underlining the importance of the border crisis to the Chinese Communist Party’s narrative. Harnessing nationalism, the party wants to convey that it will protect what it considers Chinese territory at all costs.

India’s military and political leaders now confront a reality at the border that should have jolted them into serious action: China has a distinct advantage over India, which it has consolidated since 2020. By investing in a long-term military presence in one of the most remote places on Earth, the PLA has considerably reduced the time it would need to launch a military operation against India. New military garrisons, roads, and bridges would allow for rapid deployment and make clear that Beijing is not considering a broader retreat. The Indian military has responded by diverting certain forces intended for the border with Pakistan toward its disputed border with China. It has deployed additional ground forces to prevent further PLA ingress in Ladakh and constructed supporting infrastructure. Meanwhile, New Delhi’s political leadership is conspicuous in its silence, projecting a sense of normalcy.

Beijing refuses to discuss two of the areas in Ladakh, where its forces have blocked Indian patrols since 2020. In five other areas, Chinese troops have stepped back by a few miles but asked India to do the same and create a no-patrolling zone. This move denies India its right to patrol areas as planned before the border crisis began. The PLA has flatly refused to discuss de-escalation, in which both armies would pull back by a substantive distance. The question of each side withdrawing its additional troops from Ladakh is not even on the agenda. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson rejected any demand to restore the situation along the LAC as it existed before May 2020. The PLA continues to downplay the severity of the situation, instead emphasizing stability in its ties with India.

If the situation in Ladakh is “stable but unpredictable,” Indian military leaders have told Foreign Policy that major stretches of the LAC’s eastern sector—2,500 kilometers (or 1,553 miles) away—are an even bigger cause of concern. In 1962, this area was the site of a humiliating defeat of the Indian Army at the hands of the PLA. Today, massive Chinese infrastructure development and troop buildup closer to the LAC has placed India at a military disadvantage. In September, Pande said when it comes to infrastructure in the area, “there is lots to be desired to be done.” Recent reports suggest at least three additional PLA brigades remain deployed in the area even after the Party Congress, further worrying Indian military planners.

China officially claims the entire state of Arunachal Pradesh, which includes the Tawang Monastery where the sixth Dalai Lama was born in 1683. Tawang was historically a part of Tibet; Chinese officials, such as Dai Bingguo, who served as China’s boundary negotiator with India from 2003 to 2013, have publicly stated that it would be nonnegotiable in a permanent settlement of the disputed border. As questions arise over the succession of the current Dalai Lama, who is 87 years old, Chinese sensitivities about Tawang will intensify—even more so when linked to its internal security problems in Tibet. In the coming years, it is likely to become a higher priority for China.

Still, it is in Ladakh that the Chinese have built up infrastructure at a frenetic pace, with only military operations in mind: roads, bridges, airfields, heliports, accommodations for troops, and storage and communication infrastructure. Pande noted that one of the biggest developments is the G695 highway, which runs parallel to the LAC and gives the PLA the ability to quickly move from one valley to another. Flatter terrain on the Chinese side already gives Beijing an advantage, now further bolstered by infrastructure—an extensive network of new roads, bridges, and heliports.

In the 1960s, the PLA needed one full summer season to mobilize and launch military operations in Ladakh for the next summer. Now, it would need a couple of weeks to undertake the same operation. Indian military planners must live with this scenario, even if the current border crisis is resolved.

Modi approaching Xi in Bali recalled a short exchange between the two leaders on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in 2017. Then, their conversation sparked diplomatic communications between New Delhi and Beijing that aimed to resolve a standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at Doklam in Bhutan, which China claims as its territory. The talks led to disengagement, but the Chinese only stepped back a few hundred yards. They have since consolidated their military deployment and undertaken massive infrastructure development in Doklam, such as roads, helipads, and a military garrison. Even if an immediate crisis was averted, the status quo was permanently altered in China’s favor in Doklam.

A similar resolution of the Ladakh border crisis would carry bigger risks for India. Unlike in Doklam, China has entered areas in Ladakh that Indian troops regularly patrolled until 2020. Reinforcing the LAC over the vast span of Ladakh would require enhanced deployment of Indian ground forces. This permanent instability would put the Indian military under further pressure. With an already limited defense budget—China’s is more than four times as large—shifting more troops to the border would also divert resources from the Indian Navy, where multilateral cooperation with Quad partners to contest China’s influence in the Indian Ocean region is an absolute imperative.

Fearing escalation, India is forsaking even limited offensive options, such as launching a quid pro quo military operation to capture some territory in Tibet to arrive at the negotiating table with a strong hand. New Delhi’s defensive position instead seems to acknowledge its widening gap with Beijing; due to this power differential, it is unable to even use economic or diplomatic instruments to target China. After all, India’s bilateral trade with China—its biggest trading partner—reached record levels this year, with an all-time high trade deficit in Beijing’s favor. The U.S. Defense Department report on China reveals that Beijing has warned U.S. officials not to interfere with its relationship with New Delhi; Kenneth Juster, a former U.S. ambassador to India, said New Delhi doesn’t want Washington to mention Beijing’s border aggression.

India’s defensive posture plays out in its approach to diplomatic engagement and security cooperation. Unlike its Quad partners, India abstained from voting against China on the Xinjiang issue at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in October, and its comments on China’s crackdown in Hong Kong or aggression toward Taiwan have been guarded. Modi participated in both the BRICS summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit this year, along with Xi; Chinese delegations are still regularly invited to New Delhi for multilateral events. And an Indian military contingent participated with a PLA contingent in a military exercise in Russia this year.

The current situation along the LAC, both in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, as well as China’s refusal to discuss issues on India’s agenda for resolving the crisis have added to the structural instability in their relationship. Chinese infrastructure development and the widening gap in power means that this instability will become permanent, even with a solution to the immediate crisis. India’s military will remain under pressure and on guard. Pande made this implicit when discussing future Indian plans on the border in November. “We need to very carefully calibrate our actions on the LAC [so as] to be able to safeguard both our interests and sensitivities … and be prepared to deal with all types of contingencies,” he said.

The risk of an accidental military escalation between Asia’s most populous countries—both nuclear powers—has increased significantly since 2020. This will continue unless Modi and Xi find a new modus vivendi. Establishing guardrails in the relationship will require political imagination and an honest appraisal of relative strengths; failing that, New Delhi faces tough geopolitical choices. It has so far eschewed any security-centric step with the Quad that could provoke Beijing, but murmurs from its partners about reticent Indian policy are bound to get louder. Meanwhile, India’s reliance on Russia for military equipment and ammunition now falls under a cloud of suspicion. And an unstable border with China prevents India from targeting Pakistan, a tactic that has proved politically rewarding for Modi.

The fundamentals of Indian foreign policy that have held steady since the years of former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru—namely, strategic autonomy and ensuring territorial integrity and sovereignty—will come under greater stress as the border crisis looms over New Delhi. Modi boasts of great ambitions for India as a “Vishwa Guru,” or master to the world—a euphemism for a global superpower. But questions raised by the situation at the border with China continue to limit him.

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Chinese language International Ministry spokesman Mao Ning. File | Photograph credit score: AP Noting that troops have been disengaged at 4 areas in japanese Ladakh, together with the Galwan Valley, the Chinese language International Ministry stated on Friday (September 13, 2024) that India and China agreed throughout their assembly in Russia to work collectively to create circumstances for the advance of bilateral relations.Nationwide Safety Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese language International Minister Wang Yi held talks on the sidelines of a gathering of senior BRICS officers accountable for safety affairs in St Petersburg, Russia on Thursday (12 September 2024), the place they mentioned progress made in latest consultations on border points, the Chinese language International Ministry stated in a press launch.Requested whether or not the 2 international locations have been near a breakthrough to revive bilateral ties frozen for greater than 4 years because of the army standoff in japanese Ladakh, Chinese language International Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated at a press convention on Friday (September 13, 2024) that the 2 militaries have achieved disengagement in 4 areas and the state of affairs alongside the border is secure. “In recent times, the frontline armies of the 2 international locations have efficiently withdrawn from 4 areas within the western sector of the China-India border, together with the Galwan Valley. The border state of affairs between China and India is mostly secure and below management,” Mao stated.His feedback come a day after Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated in Geneva that about 75% of the “disengagement points” with China have been resolved, however the larger downside has been the growing militarisation of the border.Mr. Doval and Mr. Wang are the Particular Representatives for the India-China Border Talks Mechanism.Giving additional particulars on the Doval-Wang assembly, the Chinese language International Ministry assertion stated each side expressed the assumption that the steadiness of China-India relations is within the elementary and long-term pursuits of the 2 peoples and is conducive to regional peace and growth.China and India agreed to implement the consensus reached by the heads of the 2 international locations, improve mutual understanding and belief, preserve steady communication and create circumstances for advancing bilateral ties, he stated.Mr. Wang, additionally a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Occasion of China Central Committee, burdened that within the face of a turbulent world, China and India, as two historical Japanese civilizations and rising creating international locations, ought to adhere to independence, select unity and cooperation and keep away from consuming one another, state information company Xinhua reported.Mr. Wang expressed the hope that the 2 sides would correctly deal with their variations with a realistic method and discover the correct technique to get together with one another and push China-India relations again onto the observe of wholesome, secure and sustainable growth.Throughout their assembly on Thursday (13 September 2024), each Mr Wang and Mr Doval mentioned the progress made in latest consultations on border points and agreed to abide by the frequent understandings reached by the leaders of the 2 international locations, improve mutual understanding and belief, create circumstances for enhancing bilateral ties and preserve communication to this finish, it stated.A press launch on the talks issued by the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) stated India and China on Thursday (September 12, 2024) agreed to work with "urgency" and "redouble" their efforts to attain full disengagement on the remaining friction factors in japanese Ladakh.On the assembly, Mr. Doval conveyed to Mr. Wang that peace and tranquility within the border areas and respect for the Line of Precise Management (LAC) are important for the return to normalcy in bilateral relations, in accordance with the MEA press launch.The Doval-Wang assembly got here two weeks after India and China held diplomatic talks throughout which they agreed to accentuate contacts by way of diplomatic and army channels to discover a resolution to the excellent points.The Indian and Chinese language militaries have been locked in a standoff since Might 2020 and a whole decision to the border dispute has but to be achieved, although each side have disengaged on various friction factors.Ties between the 2 international locations deteriorated considerably following the fierce conflict within the Galwan Valley in June 2020, which marked essentially the most severe army battle between the 2 sides in many years.India has maintained that its ties with China can't be regular until there's peace within the border areas.The 2 sides have thus far held 21 rounds of Corps Commander-level talks to resolve the standoff. Revealed - September 13, 2024 06:49 pm IST

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Andrew Korybko

Sep 01, 2024

Here are the full comments that I gave to The Epoch Times’ Nalova Akua about Africa’s role in the New Cold War, excerpts of which were included in his article titled “South Korean Government Gives Export Boost to Companies Trading in Africa”.

The “Fourth Industrial Revolution”/“Great Reset” (4IR/GR) will define global economic trends over the coming decades, but all related technologies are dependent on certain critical minerals like cobalt, many of which are located in Africa. China controls most of that mineral’s production as well as lithium, which is why its competitors want to diversify from their dependence on its supply chains, ergo the rush for extracting African resources like the Republic of Korea (ROK) sought to do via its inaugural Africa Summit.

It's not the only one doing this either since the Financial Times published a detailed report in late May titled “The UAE’s rising influence in Africa”, which documents its growing role in this industry there. China’s Indian neighbor, with whom it’s been in a fierce competition since their lethal clashes over the Galwan River Valley in summer 2020, is also looking to expand its associated presence in Africa per Reuters. It goes without saying that Western countries are doing the same as well for identical purposes.

The combined effect is that China’s disproportionate control over critical mineral supply chains will likely erode with time as the ROK, the UAE, India, the EU, and the US all make competitive bids to develop new African deposits and production sites whether there or wherever else. The larger context within which this is unfolding concerns the New Cold War competition between China and the US over the future of the ongoing global systemic transition.

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Neighbor victimization: India's revealed secrets

Have you ever thought about how complex India’s relationships with its neighbors really are? It’s like a tangled web of history, politics, and strategy. Take the border disputes, for instance. With China, it’s been a long-standing issue, especially in the Himalayas. Remember the Galwan Valley clash in 2020? That really escalated things. And then there’s Pakistan and Kashmir—since 1947, it’s been a rollercoaster of wars and skirmishes. Now, let’s talk about India’s growing influence. While it’s great to see India taking the lead in South Asia, it can sometimes rub neighbors the wrong way. Countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka feel like they’re caught in the middle of a power play, especially with China’s Belt and Road Initiative competing for attention. Building dams over international rivers and not sharing with Bangladesh. And don’t get me started on the strategic alliances with Western powers. They can seem more like a containment strategy than a partnership. All of this creates a perception that India is making more enemies than friends. It’s a delicate balance, and one misstep could tip the scales

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S Jaishankar To Chinese Counterpart

The ties between the two countries nosedived following the fierce clash in the Galwan Valley. Vientiane (Laos): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Thursday met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi here and emphasised the need to ensure “full respect” for the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and past agreements to stabilise the bilateral ties. The two leaders, who met for the second time this month,…