Xi Plays Tibet Card, Appoints Hardliner

Wang Junzheng, Tibet's new Communist party boss, is on a number of sanctions lists by the US, Britain, the EU and Canada, for his tough role in Xinjiang, aimed at China's Uyghur ethnic minority,......

China building 30 airports in Tibet and Xinjiang?

About 30 airports have been either built or under construction in Tibet and Xinjiang provinces which will boost China's civil and military infrastructure in the remote regions bordering India, the......

Chinese Chequers on LAC is Not for the Faint-hearted

The Indian Army has shown it can face down the PLA, but is too often held back by a political leadership that lacks boldness, asserts Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: Indian soldiers disembark from a military......

Why did Xi meet PLA generals?

Important for India was Xi's meeting with representatives of PLA officers and soldiers stationed in Tibet.The video of the encounter was interesting to watch, especially the large number of......

China's first home-made jet makes debut commercial flight

Chengdu Airlines said the ARJ21 has a lower cost per seat than similar models of Airbus and Boeing models. IMAGE: ARJ21 took to maiden flight from Chengdu city in southwestern China's Sichuan......

Sino-Indian trade: It's helping only China

A purely statistical analysis can be misleading. The current euphoria over the expanding Sino-Indian economic relations, the galloping bilateral trade and the mushrooming analytical studies......

22 Indian firms in BW's Asia Top 150 list

Think Big Oil, and the likes of Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and BP usually spring to mind. Yet Asian companies such as PetroChina, India's Oil & Natural Gas, and PTT of Thailand may well break into the......

The age of Chinese MNCs is here

The age of the Chinese multinational is upon us. Companies few Westerners had heard of two years ago now make the headlines almost every day. TCL Corp., a Chinese consumer-electronics manufacturer,......

Tibet to stay on Olympic torch route despite riots

Shrugging off violent protests that have shaken Tibet, China said on Wednesday that the Olympic torch would go through the Himalayan region as planned on its way to August's Beijing Games. "The......