Chinese defence minister missing, rumoured to have been detained

Speculation about the missing Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu may have been removed and detained became rife after he was conspicuously absent at the meeting of the Central Military......

Xi Jinping secures historic third term as China leader

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday scripted history, becoming the first leader of the ruling Communist Party after party founder Chairman Mao Zedong to get re-elected for an unprecedented third......

Xi Jinping and Pomegranate Seeds

Why is China's supreme leader promoting Han Chauvinism so aggressively, asks Claude Arpi. All Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   On June 8, China's Core Leader Xi Jinping visited the......

What China will do next in the South China Sea

'After a strategic pause, Beijing will revive its policy of slowly creeping towards acquiring sovereignty over the South China Sea,' says former RA&W officer Jayadev Ranade. The decision announced......