China will centralise management of its reserve force as part of efforts to ensure the Communist Party’s absolute leadership of the military and build a world-class army, the official Xinhua News Ag...

In the last six years, the personality-driven diplomacy skills of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, have gained much attention. However, with bitterness seeping into India’s relationship with C...

In the last six years, the personality-driven diplomacy skills of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, have gained much attention. However, with bitterness seeping into India’s relationship with China...

In the same week that Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in a deadly brawl, one of China’s submarines cruised through the waters near Japan, prompting a scramble of aircraft and ships to track its ...

Rajnath Singh’s mission to Moscow recalls Xan Smiley’s famous dismissal of the Soviet Union as “Upper Volta with rockets”. Xan is editor at large of The Economist and a great-g...

False calmSir — Films like Aquaman and Mowgli may be visual treats, but they also lull viewers into a false sense of complacency. The clear blue waters of the oceans that the so-called “protector ...

One man spent 15 days in a detention centre. Police threatened another’s family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.Their offence: posting on Twitter.Chinese police, in ...

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China's burgeoning space programme achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon.Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and, more recently, China...

The United States and China turned a Pacific Rim trade summit this weekend into a stage where the world could do little more than stand by and watch as two great powers aggravated their battle over tr...