Congress leader Jairam Ramesh pointed out important sectors in India like telecom, pharmaceuticals, and electronics, are critically dependent on Chinese imports. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Congress on Thursday (June 19, 2025) said it has been calling for a detailed debate on China for the last five years and hopes that Prime Minister…
New Delhi: Donald Trump‘s tariffs are doing, it appears, what decades of political and diplomatic wrangling could not, at least with any great degree of success – to get India and China to work together, to “make the dragon and elephant dance“, as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last month. The US President’s tariffs…
On the 75th anniversary of the China-India diplomatic ties, President Xi Jinping spoke with Indian President Droupadi Murmu and stressed that both countries should work more closely together. The relationship should take the form of a “Dragon-Elephant tango”, he said. The Chinese and Indian leaders exchanged congratulatory messages on Tuesday marking the 75th anniversary of…
Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday said that China’s rise as a dominant economic and strategic force “hampers” India’s effort to be the natural leader of the Global South. Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi was speaking at the fourth General Bipin Rawat Memorial lecture in Delhi.(PTI) Speaking at the fourth…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking on the Lex Fridman podcast, emphasised strengthening the relations between India and China, saying that competition should not turn into conflicts and differences shouldn’t be replaced by disputes. PM Modi said that India and China’s ties have been extremely strong, along with deep cultural connections.(File Image) PM Modi reiterated…
New Delhi: Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini but at a fraction of the cost. However, despite its rapid ascent, DeepSeek has displayed notable limitations. Like other Chinese AI models, it remains constrained by government…
New Delhi: India’s diplomacy stands out globally for its ability to balance ties between adversaries. The latest example of this is happening this week. As foreign minister S Jaishankar touches down in New Delhi after a five-day visit to the US for Donald Trump’s inauguration, foreign secretary Vikram Misri heads to China to foster ties…
Vikram Misri is visiting China for a meeting of the foreign secretary-vice minister mechanism New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will travel to Beijing for a two-day visit beginning Sunday. Mr Misri is visiting China for a meeting of the foreign secretary-vice minister mechanism, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. The resumption…
New Delhi: Despite the patrolling agreement with China, which was announced earlier this week, it will take time to rebuild trust and for the two countries to be willing to work with each other, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. During an interaction with students from a university in Pune on Saturday, Mr Jaishankar…
Oct 25, 2024 10:46 AM IST The disengagement of troops at two critical friction points in the Eastern Ladakh sector — Demchok and Depsang Plains- commenced on Friday. Days after India and China inked the historic truce agreement on border patrolling, the disengagement of troops at two critical friction points in the Eastern Ladakh sector…