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INDIA CHINA RELATION

A Himalayan balancing act The great Himalayan Divide between India and China was in evidence last week following the > Chinese refusal to support India's case for entry into the > Nuclear Suppliers Group . While non-entry into the Group is not the end of the world, for India lives to fight another day, of concern is what the Chinese stance implies for the bilateral relationship between the two Asian giants. This is a relationship that has been assiduously tended over the years since the mid-seventies when ambassadorial relations between the two countries were restored at the initiative of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Despite the humiliation suffered in 1962, she famously opined that “we cannot march to Peking” and that normalisation of relations constituted the triumph of maturity over the futility of alienation. Transformation in the 1980s Cut to summertime, the year being 1986. An Indian border patrol on its way to re-establish ...

land bill : Delay unlikely to impact overaoverall Indian economy

With the Congress opposing any change in retrospective clause of the Land Act brought in by the UPA in 2013, the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the proposed amendments in the Act will now be able to submit its report only in the Winter session of Parliament. While this gives a moral victory to the Congress and other Opposition parties, economists say that the delay is unlikely to have much impact on the overall economic situation. Madan Sabnavis, chief economist, CARE Ratings, said that while the Bill per se will not have any effect on the economy, which was growing even in the absence of Land Act 2013, it “will certainly help in improving the sentiments for investments in the country”. “If the Land Bill is delayed and status quo maintained, there will be no adverse effect. However, if the Bill is passed it will certainly give an impetus to the overall economy,” he said adding that with the private sector operating at a capacity of 70-80 per cent, there is no urgency in...

The Trump-Kim 'Historic' Encounter "

The Trump-Kim 'Historic' Encounter " The joint statement of United States(US) President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un at their Singapore Summit on 12 June 2018 characterises the meeting as “historic,” as has the media, repeatedly. But considering that this was the first face-to-face encounter between a US president and a North Korean top leader, the laconic joint statement issued at the end of it left a lot of questions unanswered. The essence of the statement was that Trump committed to provide “security guarantees” to North Korea, and Kim “reaffirmed” his responsibility to “complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.” Yes, “reaffirmed,” for Kim did the same—committed to bringing about a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons—at his summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April 2018. The last clause of the third article of the Panmunjom Declaration of 27 April 2018 issued by the leaders of the two Koreas, “confirmed the...

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