Srikanth Kondapalli

Srikanth Kondapalli

Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
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Red Tides in Blue Waters: China’s Strategic Moves in Europe

Any deep understanding between the US and Russia will erode China’s influence at the high table. Rapid global developments following US President Donald Trump’s phone call to his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin, Vice President J D Vance’s critique at the Munich Security Conference and the US-Russia talks at Riyadh on resolving the Ukraine conflict, sans Ukrainian representation – have all been eroding the edifice built assiduously by China since President Nixon’s visit in 1972. The quick strategic transformation underway and the cataclysmic change it is unleashing is worrying Beijing, given its carefully crafted policies of keeping the US-Russia differences intact through multipolarity and global governance initiatives.

Global Geopolitics and the TikTok Controversy: A Clash of Sovereignty, Security, and Influence

Even though China debarred global social internet sites like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Yahoo, and others more than a decade ago, the issue of proscription of Chinese-owned TikTok by the United States government has raised a major controversy that threatens to engulf geopolitics, global power transition, data security, influence operations, perception management, personal freedom, and creativity.

PM Oli’s China Visit: Optics Overshadow Substance

High in optics and but low in content, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s visit to China this week sends signals of balancing India. For the past decade, China has been upping the ante in Kathmandu with close political tie-ups between the communist parties, promises for infrastructure projects, trade, tourism and others.

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