The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, skipped the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi recently. This is something he hasn’t done since taking over the presidency of China, in 2012. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, he attended the summit virtua...
New Delhi: Days before the G20 summit in which the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, is expected to visit the Indian capital, Beijing has released its official “standard map” of the People’s Republic of China showing parts of Indi...
The red circles in this map roughly shows the areas where Indian and Chinese troops had skirmishes between 2020 and 2021 in eastern Ladakh. (CIA map via Wikipedia) New Delhi: The Indian Army has rejected China’s demand for a buffer zone i...
The red pin in this Google Earth satellite image shows the Niti pass. The white line is the LAC.New Delhi: China has now started building up pressure on India in the middle sector on the disputed border between the two countries, which is also known ...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...
Rajnath Singh (2L) during talks with Li Shangfu (R). (Photo: Rajnath Singh/Twitter)New Delhi: In talks during the first high-level military visit from China since the start of the Ladakh stand-off in April 2020, the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, c...
Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from a friction point at Pangong-tso in eastern Ladakh after Indian troops captured dominating heights in the Kailash Ranges, in 2020. (Photo: Indian Army)The power and strength of the national security apparatus...
Philipp Ackermann (centre), Germany’s ambassador to India, during the news conference in New Delhi, on August 30, 2022.New Delhi: Germany’s ambassador to India Philipp Ackermann termed China’s claim of Arunachal Pradesh as its ...
The Tawang Monastery. (Photo by Rajat Chakraborty/Unsplash.)Arunachal Pradesh – which is also called the “land of dawn-lit mountains” – is the 24th state of India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (N...