The South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca are key waterways for global trade. For China, these shipping lanes deliver oil and raw materials from West Asia and Africa. For the Americans too, the South China Sea is an important sea lane
17 January, 2012 12:55:00
Obama administration’s overriding aim in Myanmar is two-fold. One wean Yangon away from Beijing; two encourage peaceful and orderly political change. ...
01 February, 2012 02:30:00
The Beijing regime’s deepest fear is that when the economy slows dramatically it will unleash all the explosive social tensions produced by the three decades of economic re-engineering in the country....
13 January, 2012 09:40:00
Rohingyas are quite skeptical of the changes in Myanmar that have become a toast of the liberal circles. According to them, there is no change in the conditions that had forced them enmass to flee the country....
04 January, 2012 07:30:00
With the government true to its pledge of undertaking political reform, donors are reassessing their planks and planks. They are, however, taking care not to draw any link between aid flows and political changes which include letting Nobel laureate Aung Saan Suu Kyi register her party and stand for elections. ...
18 November, 2011 09:50:00
Only through dialogue and constant interaction will it be possible to change the course of events in the 21st century. Vietnam yesterday and Iraq today are shining examples of the failure of policy prescription based on satellite imagery. ...
14 November, 2011 11:55:00
When it comes to fighting Hanoi, Beijing must remember the lesson the Americans had learnt the hard way and are loath to forget still that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better....
16 September, 2011 10:00:00
In a small but significant step, the 'civilian' government of Myanmar has relaxed restrictions on accessing Internet news sites. It is also engaged in a dialogue with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to "work together for peace and stability and the development of the country”. The olive branch to the critics at home and abroad is a clear signal of the regime's eagerness to be accepted as the representative government of the land. It no longer likes to be treated as a nominally civilian government nor does it want to get bogged down in verbal duels. ...
22 August, 2011 11:50:00
In a manner of speaking, the US and China are in a made for each other situation despite their rivalry in every sphere across the globe. Each has a vested interest in the economic well-being of the other. China will not like to see any factory closures and consequent job losses leading to unrest. American business doesn’t want China to lose its export competitiveness which in turn will affect the returns on their investment in the land of Mao. ...
28 July, 2011 10:35:00
From just 649 kilometres of high-speed track in 2008, China today has over 8,300 kilometres—that is, half of the world’s total track and four times more than in Japan. The Hangzhou city - Fuzhou line where the accident occurred was opened in 2009. Railway Minister Sheng Guangzu acknowledged in April that safety might have been compromised by corruption. ...
28 June, 2011 01:40:00
China’s foray into international power politics through a display of its rugged economic muscle brings in its wake the East India company syndrome into play. Its latest Africa show piece is the Kalahari Minerals plc, acquired through the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation. Listed on both the Namibian and London exchanges, the company’s main asset is the Husab Uranium Project, located about 30 miles ( 48 Kilometres) north-east of Namibia’s main port - Walvis Bay, which has been defined as the fourth largest uranium deposit of high quality in the world....
24 June, 2011 11:05:00
Besides the Philippines, Vietnam finds its interests under the Chinese threat in the South China sea and the threat emanates from Beijing’s stake in the waters. Bulk of Chinese energy supplies from the Middle East and North Africa pass through South China sea. More over, the seabed is rich with oil and gas....
24 June, 2011 11:40:00
It will be patently unfair to compare what India and China are doing or plan to do in Myanmar. China’s forays into Myanmar are a part of its quest to secure its energy interests, and towards that end ensuring peace in the restive border belt. India’s engagement with Myanmar is a part of its Look East Policy. Its mission was and is not unidirectional. It is there to share its expertise and help a friendly neighbour to overcome its development deficit. If the enterprise offers dividends, well, it is a bonus but it is not the unvarnished goal post....
13 June, 2011 01:35:00
The tension in South China Sea is a fall-out of hunger for energy resources by an increasingly high cost economy which is aspiring for a place at the global high table....
04 June, 2011 06:35:00
The People’s Republic of China released on 31 March 2011 its seventh Defence White Paper (DWP) titled “China’s National Defence 2010”. The plan as envisaged in the DWP may escalate regional tensions says the author after an exploratory study....
30 May, 2011 07:10:00
How China will react to the ‘political succession plan’? Lingering doubts are set at rest by the pressure the Chinese consulate is putting on Western Australian law makers to avoid the Dalai Lama on his visit to Perth next month. ...
26 May, 2011 09:20:00
Today, China is the world's second-largest economy and second-largest trader. So, what happens in China and how China handles its economy are of absorbing interest to analysts and planners everywhere. Also how it manages its inflation – the text book way with liberals in the lead or traditional way with apparatchiks in the forefront....
18 April, 2011 08:55:00
The regime will do its best to either co-opt Aung San Suu Kyi or defeat her strategy by turning towards and relying on energy and resource hungry neighbors for trade and investment....
25 April, 2011 06:45:00
If current trends are to hold, Xi Jinping’s leadership of the party will witness two decades of engineer-technocrat leaders giving way to a legalist and economics oriented leadership. China will not see the emergence of a ‘Gorbachev’ and Xi Jinping is definitely no ‘Gorbachev', says the author...
21 April, 2011 10:00:00
China is witnessing ‘investment immigration’ with its ‘new rich’ ‘buying’ citizenship abroad…..The super rich are also spending liberally and freely ... Beijing has raised the income tax base. The move may further widen the rich-poor divide...
13 March, 2011 07:35:00
Just as there is a Jasmine dynamism in Middle East / Northern Africa, there is a Deng Xiaoping dynamism in China. And the momentum generated by these two dynamisms is unstoppable. China knows this better than any body else....
03 February, 2011 12:30:00
The controversy over the discovery of large amounts of foreign currency and some amount of fake currency found in the possession of Ugyen Thinley Dorje, ...
25 January, 2011 02:00:00
A fallout of the ‘milestone’ visit of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, to the US in mid-January has been the assessment by various experts on ...
23 January, 2011 10:30:00
Unless it puts its own house in order, China cannot hope to really enjoy its status as an economic power house of the world, and derive consequent benefits like lifting of EU arms embargo. Till such time, it will have no nirvana from snubs like Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, and arm twisting friends and allies from attending Nobel Prize ceremonies will only bring more egg on its face....
20 January, 2011 02:20:00
Handshakes and smiles and the red-carpet do matter in diplomatic atmospherics. But they fail to hide the scars for far too long, says the author. ...
14 November, 2010 05:40:00
The headline in the New York Times to a despatch from Seoul that read "Obama ends G-20 summit with criticism of China" sums up, yes, ...
21 November, 2010 07:10:00
Beijing -Washington spat will have a two-fold result. One it will bring immediate gains to SEA nations from Chinese largesse. Two a new cold war era will be ushered in though limited to Asia and South Asia and parts of Africa...
17 November, 2010 06:15:00
Suu Kyi is not hiding her disappointment over Delhi's dealings with Yangon. But her own interaction with the junta points to the justification for Delhi’s actions....
12 December, 2010 03:25:00
By Malladi Rama Rao...
29 October, 2010 06:25:00
For India, Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal are core issues while on the Chinese side, their concerns relate to Dalai Lama and lately to business and economic interests. In the past, the two countries "viewed and handled" their bilateral relations with a "strong sense of history." Both have not allowed irritants to come in the way of stable and steady growth in ties....
16 August, 2010 03:20:00
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09 August, 2010 03:51:00
BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced a French national and his Chinese accomplice to death on drugs manufacturing and trafficking charges, French consular officials ...
07 August, 2010 07:25:00
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05 August, 2010 01:40:00
The New York Times Report DALIAN, China — Three weeks after a flood of heavy crude oil fouled scores of miles of this ...
03 August, 2010 02:30:00
URUMQI: — For a street whose name suggests throwing off shackles, South Liberation Road doesn’t look like a very free place these days.At the intersection ...
01 August, 2010 02:25:00
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31 July, 2010 04:50:00
Beijing, July 31: An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people on Saturday at a coal mine in a ...
30 July, 2010 05:15:00
By John Pomfret in The Washington Post, July 30 The Obama administration has adopted a tougher tone with China in recent weeks as part ...
17 May, 2010 07:50:00
A North Korean ship, ‘Chong Gen’, delivered on April 12 air defence equipment at Thilawa Port, Yangon. It left the port on April 21 with ...
10 March, 2010 04:05:00
Moving one step closer to staging of elections on a date yet to be specified, the Myanmar junta has set the ground rules for contestants. ...
08 March, 2010 05:40:00
Myanmar’s military regime government has set in motion a major reform of the country’s economy. It has put on block several assets that were taken ...
27 February, 2010 12:25:00
Myanmar's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday Feb 27.The ...
24 February, 2010 03:30:00
The ruling military junta in Myanmar is planning a crackdown on an estimated 400,000 Buddhist monks in the country to "discipline" them ahead of forthcoming ...
06 February, 2010 02:00:00
Thousands of Burmese refugees living in Thailand run the risk of repatriation and on return home they face the danger of torture or even death, ...
04 November, 2009 10:45:00
China has been helping Myanmar (Burma) to beef up its military might. The total value of the military assistance is put at around $3 billion ...
11 August, 2009 01:15:00
A court in Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in detention, a verdict that will keep her off ...
04 July, 2009 08:37:00
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s mission to Myanmar ended in failure on Friday, July3. The junta did not allow him to meet the detained ...
03 July, 2009 09:20:00
Two years after re-establishing diplomatic ties in2007, Myanmar and North Korea are collaborating in arms production, arms sale and training. The Korean weapons are reaching ...
19 May, 2009 06:53:00
Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, (63) went on trial on Monday (May 18) as hundreds of police officers and army soldiers blocked ...
08 May, 2009 01:35:00
Myanmar’s military junta has again rejected an appeal to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose latest period of detention will now expire on ...
08 May, 2009 11:59:00
Tension is brewing over past few months between Bangladesh and Myanmar over border issues. The spark is provided by Mynmar's decision to build an earthen ...
28 April, 2009 06:56:00
The European Union has extended its sanctions on Myanmar for one more year till 2010. Meeting at Luxembourg, foreign ministers of EU member states have ...
