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India defeats China to be on UN oversight body IANS | Nov 23, 2011, 10.11AM IST UNITED NATIONS: In a two-way contest with China, India has been elected to the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit, an independent external oversight body mandated to conduct evaluations, inspections and...

THE NEW YORK TIMES - November 20, 2011 How China Can Defeat America By YAN XUETONG Beijing WITH China’s growing influence over the global economy, and its increasing ability to project military power, competition between the United States and China is inevitable. Leaders of both...

CHINA ON EDGE Obama Looks East, Expands American Presence In Asia By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN 11/17/11 10:03 AM ET BEIJING -- While Beijing's public response to President Barack Obama's more muscular China policy has been muted, behind the scenes the U.S. president's sudden moves to...

China's No. 1 target is the US, next is India: Bush Wednesday - Nov 09, 2011, 07:20pm (GMT+5.5) MUMBAI - Former US president George W Bush on Tuesday delivered a blunt warning to Indians about the intentions of China. The former president who has courted trouble in the past with his...

China backs Pak bid for non-permanent UNSC seat, India upset Saibal Dasgupta, TNN - Oct 19, 2011, 06.21PM IST BEIJING: India's hopes of obtaining Chinese backing for a seat in the United Nations Security Council came up against a rock with the Chinese foreign ministry saying on Wednesday...

More people go to church on Sunday in China than in the whole of Europe. Many of China's churches are overflowing, as the number of Christians in the country multiplies. In the past, repression drove people to convert - is the cause now rampant capitalism? It is impossible to say how many...

India is not as corrupt as China and Russia, a global credit rating agency Fitch has said. The country, however, suffers from excessive regulation and tax laws, which is worrying for foreign investors, Fitch group managing director Richard Hunter said. “We will certainly rank India well...

Seventy years ago, Sikh, Rajput and Chinese regiments fought together against the Japanese in the battle of Hong Kong. This is the kind of narrative you don't expect to hear in Beijing even if it pops up soon after dialogue between the rival militaries recently resumed after a tense year-long...

July 5, 2011 China should listen to Kissinger: Youre on top now, start leading July 5, 2011 China has surpassed the US as the world's largest creditor. Beijing must now take on the accompanying leadership role. Instead of a 'Marshall Plan,' why not a 'Hu Jintao plan' that recycles some...

Every sixth person in the world in an Indian India will take over China in terms of population by 2025, an analysis of the provisional Census, 2011 data suggests. With more than 1.2 billion people, India contains about 17.5 per cent (every sixth person in the world is an Indian) of...

Authorities in the Chinese capital are building sentry posts in the suburbs, with police and community volunteers on the lookout for “three kinds of people,” ahead of key political anniversaries. A source close to the campaign, identified only by his surname, Li, said security measures are...

New Delhi China now has the capability to deploy and sustain more than half-a-million troops for over a month on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in case of a high threat scenario with India. Combining deft defence diplomacy with India’s neighbours and major infrastructure upgradation in...

Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 April 2011 Facebook could block content in some countries, a Washington lobbyist for the company has said, adding that it has faced uncomfortable positions over "too much, maybe, free speech". The comments come amid increasing...

by Ananth Krishnan No mention of penalties for breaking the regulations The first thing Wang Shuying did after exchanging wedding rings was to whip out a cigarette lighter. Her first act as a newly-wed was to light a cigarette for her husband, following a widely prevalent modern Chinese...

April 17, 2011 Inflation in China Poses Big Threat to Global Trade By DAVID BARBOZA - THE NEW YORK TIMES SHANGHAI — As the United States and Europe struggle to get their economies rolling again, China is having the opposite problem: figuring out how to keep its revved-up growth...

When my wife and I decided to move our family from Maplewood to Beijing in 2005 we weren't really sure what it would mean for our Jewish life. We were prepared to scale it back for a few years, and to take more responsibility for keeping the Jewish education of our three children, then aged 2, 4...

Who Needs Nobel: China Launches the Confucius Peace Prize By: Krista Mahr Photo: Protesters demand the release of jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, California, on December 5, 2010...

The government of China appears to extremely upset by a news report in the Indian media that two Mountain Divisions of the Indian army will be deployed in Arunachal Pradesh, and become fully operational by next year. In response, the China Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu cautioned...

BEIJING (AFP) – Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday wore a poppy in his lapel to honour British war dead, despite China's request he remove it because officials said it reminded them of the Opium Wars. Cameron and members of his delegation have all worn poppies...

Indo-Asian News Service Washington, November 06, 2010 Obama's India visit significant, a signal to China: Expert It is "significant" that India is the first stop on US President Barack Obama's four-nation trip as it shows "the importance the US attaches to India", a US expert said...