Welcome to today's The India China Newsletter.China’s trade data for December that was out this morning showed its exports continued to grow for the seventh straight month. The South China Morning Post reports: Exports grew by 18.1 per cent last month from a year earlier, down from 21.1 per cent in November but above the consensus result of a survey of analysts, conducted by Bloomberg, which predicted 15.0 per cent growth. Overall in 2020, China’s exports rose 3.6 per cent compared to a year earlier, while imports dropped 1.1 per cent. China’s trade surplus last year was US$535.03 billion, the highest since 2015.
Jan 13 2021, Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/china-foreign-policy-land-disputes-xi-jinping-7144049/ Sujan Chinoy: "Based on his understanding of Chinese sources, Kissinger writes that in deciding to “knock” India back “to the negotiating table” through military action in 1962, Mao claimed to his commanders that he banked on strategic principles drawn from China’s so-called historical experience of defeating India in “one and a half” wars. Both the examples that Kissinger narrates are clearly ersatz, revealing Kissinger’s insufficient scholarship on ancient India."
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Jan 13 2021, Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/china-foreign-policy-land-disputes-xi-jinping-7144049/ Sujan Chinoy: "Based on his understanding of Chinese sources, Kissinger writes that in deciding to “knock” India back “to the negotiating table” through military action in 1962, Mao claimed to his commanders that he banked on strategic principles drawn from China’s so-called historical experience of defeating India in “one and a half” wars. Both the examples that Kissinger narrates are clearly ersatz, revealing Kissinger’s insufficient scholarship on ancient India."