Easy choice Sir — Soon after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban had asked farmers to stop cultivating opium poppies. However, recent reports suggest that farmers are increasingly taking ...

For the past four decades, the Chinese communist party has followed the principle of ‘collective leadership’. The country’s top political body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Co...

There is a pattern in the Chinese approach towards Taiwan — denying the legitimacy of the latter’s existence, reinforcing the principle of ‘One China’, and the constant propaga...

A prominent Chinese pianist, Li Yundi, has been detained on prostitution suspicion in Beijing, state-run news outlets in China reported on Thursday. Li, 39, who had gained celebrity status in China a...

Beijing is turning out to be the proverbial ‘Voldemort’ in Narendra Modi’s book on strategic engagement. The Indian prime minister is yet to take China’s name explicitly even t...

Spies, real or imagined, belong to the twilight zone. Furtive or ambiguous at best, their shadowy self is their greatest weapon to avoid detection. Some of the greatest flesh-and-blood spies of the wo...

China has 1.01 billion netizens in a population of 1.43 billion people. Their clout can be enormous, or negligible, depending on how the Communist Party of China perceives it. Last week, the authorit...

New plan Sir — The actor, Jackie Chan, has expressed his desire to join the Chinese Communist Party. While this explains his controversial stance of 2019 when he backed the crackdown in Hong Ko...

Hong Kong-based Hollywood star Jackie Chan, who in the past came under sharp criticism for backing Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in the former British colony, has expressed interes...

Centenary birth celebrations of a behemoth have begun. The Chinese Communist Party — its gargantuan reach affects the lives of 92 million people — has turned 100 and remains, by all accoun...