'China and India have no fundamental conflicts'

China and India have 'no fundamental conflicts' in their relations, a senior Communist Party official said on Thursday as the two neighbours launched a new round of border talks in Beijing. "China......

'Overall, China's next prez is known to be more tolerant'

It was a week of major developments on the foreign affairs front for India. In Washington, DC, an incumbent regime has been voted back to power. While that in itself may not mean major foreign......

Don't look now but China's military is changing!

In a few years from now, India will be looking at an entirely different type of military adversary across the borders, in our waters, in the air, in space and in our communication networks, says......

What is Putin up to?

'Like everyone else addicted to Kremlin politics, I too have a thesis.''Foreign policy is known to be Putin's forte -- and Russia's stability his obsession.''As we enter the 2020s, it is clear that......

Economic crisis chokes world's biggest economies

In the first week of the 16th year of the new millennium, the world seems to have caught severe pneumonia, or worse, as China had the flu, notes Shreekant Sambrani. "Sensex crosses 25,000." Indian......

Decline, recession, stagflation, crisis, crunch...

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except......