Li Keqiang's visit a chance to reboot India-China ties

Though the Sino-Indian ties showed signs of normalisation under previous Jiang Zemin regime, the pace picked up after Hu took over reins in 2003 in the post-Kargil period with stepped up bilateral engagement at the highest levels.

China's newly-appointed Vice Chairman, Li Yuanchao, in the Great Hall of the People on March 14 in Beijing. Li's appointment to the position is seen as a sign that new Party leader Xi Jinping is consolidating his power, and reducing the influence of ...

The logic, if it can be called that, of former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin on the night of April 25, 1999, will go down in the annals of history. That evening he wrote a letter to leading cadres, dispatched from the Party's Central ...

Early in the morning of April 6, a court in China's coastal Jiangsu Province reversed itself and decided to stop punishing a lawyer for practicing law. That grudging reversal—gained due to protests from lawyers and the public—may be a sign of ...

Jiang Jiemin, chairman of PetroChina speaks at the company's 2009 Annual Results announcement in Hong Kong on March 25, 2010. Jiang has encountered political troubles in a corruption investigation recently. (Mike Clarke/AFP/) News Analysis ...

The last Cabinet was formed to tackle the nation's sluggish economy, but it collapsed after too many people felt it made too little headway. The task now falls to the incoming Cabinet, which will also need to improve relations with ruling party ...

with Chinese PremierLi Keqiang in Delhi, Photo: PIB It has become fashionable to blame Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for everything that goes wrong in India. But in doing so, we lose sight of the many occasions on which he has steered the country ...

In February 2012, Xi visited the United States and chatted with the American family that hosted him in Muscatine County, Iowa in 1985 Recently unveiled travel plans for President Xi Jinping have put the nation's foreign policy in the limelight ...

Taipei, May 23 (CNA) A meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan does not seem likely even though China has had a new head of state, President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday. Such a meeting would involve the difficult issue of titles and so far, ...