India without aircraft carrier as China takes huge strides

We have seen greater Chinese activism in the South and East China Seas, but not across the Sino-Indian border. If the Chinese troops stay put in the Burthe area and construct defensive structures, that will be an indicator of their deciding to follow a similar policy of activism across the Sino-Indian border, says B Raman. The continuing (since April 15) Chinese troop intrusion (about 20 troops) 10 kilometres into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi area of Eastern Ladakh in the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, on a voyage on the high seas for the first time within a year, the state-run news agency Xinhua said on Friday.

With both India and Japan facing an assertive China, New Delhi this week came out clearly on Tokyos side on the high seas.

Will there be a "churning of seas" when an emerging India and rising China begin to cross footprints of either rivalry or competition?

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Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding ...

Singapore: Royal Caribbean International's Mariner of the Seas will become the largest ship to be based in Asia, when it enters the region later this month. At 138,000 grt, Mariner of the Seas can carry 3,807 guests. It will begin its maiden Asian ...

KYOTO As the world order shifts, with the United States being challenged by the rise of China, leaders in Beijing have begun to readjust their position toward Southeast Asia to strengthen its allies. More importantly, this is also part of China's ...

Beijing: Ahead of Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India on Sunday, Chinese media on Saturday said it is difficult for the two nations to restore mutual trust without resolving border dispute though mistrust could gradually be reduced with good faith ...