China-India Relations

India’s relations with US have frayed over trade and tariffs recently, but strong defence ties still remain between the two countries.

The businesses that adapt early to engage China, India and Asean will help draft Asia’s next chapter and profit from it.

Leaders meet on sidelines of Brics summit in New Delhi; Indian statement says they reaffirmed that ‘differences should not become disputes’.

This week: Xi heads to India for Brics summit, state-owned banks and insurers get 360 billion yuan capital boost and China shows willingness to broker Trump-Kim summit. Next week: EU’s Von der Leyen delivers annual address as China trade deadline looms, defence officials attend Beijing Xiangshan Forum, Fed may raise interest rates, lanterns light up Hong Kong and more.

The visit is yet another stop in a busy month of diplomacy for the president, who will be in Washington in a fortnight.

Success for India isn’t replacing the West or empowering China – it’s walking away with more strategic choices and leverage.

Successful integration with other foreign systems by Pakistan would strengthen China’s export case ‘considerably’, analyst notes.

Any cross-strait conflict likely to draw in US with devastating impact on Southeast Asia, Kishore Mahbubani tells Penang Peace Dialogue.

India has no interest in endless confrontation, and Beijing has every reason to prefer a predictable India to another unresolved front.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is meeting leaders from across the Global South ahead of a probable summit with US leader Donald Trump.

New Delhi’s re-engagement with the China-led bloc serves as a reminder to the US that it has other options, analysts say.

New Delhi’s approach has gone from welcoming economic engagement with Beijing to containment to the latest calibrated reopening.

The historic move signals Tokyo’s desire to strengthen defence ties with ‘like-minded’ Indo-Pacific powers, analysts say.

Tragedy at Gyirong hub lays bare climate risks along fragile mountain corridor.

Jonathan Lamport tells SCMP the local business community is closely monitoring whether business visa processing, approvals will be affected.

Sources and experts caution against overplaying expectations, saying offers on the table fall well short of a breakthrough or grand bargain.

New Delhi is more likely to take ‘unilateral countermeasures’ as routine activities are increasingly framed as threats, researcher says.

The vast ‘border-coast loop’ is designed to boost development and national unity, but will have to navigate geopolitical and ecological barriers.

Experts debate the deep fault lines in bilateral ties – from the long-running border dispute to trust and competing narratives.

Ex-diplomat and academic cover nations’ border wars, appeal to Global South and India-US and China-Pakistan relations in candid dialogue.

As the SCO marks its 25th anniversary, internal rifts as well as limited financial integration and security cooperation are holding it back.

New Delhi faces a strategic headache from its main rival’s defensive pact with Turkey and the Saudis – but it may be better news for Beijing.

New Delhi’s list of names for Arunachal Pradesh locations includes sensitive sites near its disputed frontier with China.

China should use bottom-up tactics to win over the Indian public and bolster its Global South sway, scholars write.

A strong, visionary leader is needed as next secretary general as Iran war rages during one of most ‘unpredictable times geopolitically’.

Six years after Nathu La’s closure and the deadly Galwan border clashes, its reopening throws local traders a lifeline.

India is being denied the uncontested dominance it once held. The task ahead is not to restore the old hierarchy but to find a new path.