As President Obama prepares for his trip to Beijing next month, he'd be wise to cast an eye toward New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is showing the rest of the world how to deal with Beijing
THE mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, the People’s Daily, claimed on October 14 that the Indians have become “more narrow minded”. It accused India of “provoca
A special ritual of life in Dharamsala is welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama back to his exile home. A victory banner is strung over the road as a multinational crowd pours into the lanes of Mcleodganj and down Temple Road to
It has often been taken for granted that China and India will rise simultaneously and peacefully in the 21st century. But a recent flare-up challenges th
Until 2005, Chinese public perceptions of India were generally benign, even bordering on benign neglect. Yet, a radical change in Chinese public attitudes toward India
On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopte
Popular legend has it that Louis XV of France declared “après moi, le deluge”, in a possible prediction of the French Revolution and the end of the French monarc
The fact that Barack Obama is the first American president since 1991 not to meet the Dalai Lama is not worrying in and of itself. The reason why Obama chose to adopt this dubious step
This was 60 years ago, a full circle in the Chinese calendar. Li Zhisui, Mao Zedong’s private physician was a privileged man. On October 1, 1949, he was allowed to
