Many Indian students and businessmen opting for the Chinese language because of its global reach and Beijing’s growing clout, in addition to booming trade ties with Taiwan and South-East Asia, begin to have second thoughts.

India has the opportunity of playing off the West as well as China and Russia to gain advantages for itself

By allowing the Pelosi visit, the US government can continue to maintain its 'strategic ambiguity' on Taiwan. Not putting it in her official itinerary has allowed Washington to maintain that its policy towards Taiwan has not changed

Mitter, a leading scholar and commentator on China, on Xi Jinping’s election as party general secretary for a record third time, China’s use of nationalist sentiments against neighbours and China’s relations with the United States and India.