Elated to see my article, 'Vanguard to Periphery: The CPC’s Changing Narrative on the Labour Question', published in the special issue of @ChinaReport_ICS on the 100 years of the Communist Party of China 1/

CHS Seminar: Relook of the 1962 India-#China Conflict Speaker: Col. (Dr.) Lakshmana Kumar 14 November 2025 | 12 noon IST | @ShivNadarUniv campus

Awesome list of Chinese-language media sources on AI and tech in China with brief descriptions. Huge kudos to Irene Zhang, @afrazhaowang, @jordanschnyc for putting this resource together. Leveling up the whole community!

CHS Seminar - #Yunnan as a Case Study of #China’s Sub-National Diplomacy Speaker: Dr. Naina Singh 10 November 2025 | 12 Noon IST | @ShivNadarUniv campus

My latest for @latimes: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI "arm farms" — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://t.co/o6dgEtbuEN

Received a lot of great questions on how China will tackle the involutionary price war in the 15th Five Year Plan, which, from the released recommendations to the 15 FYP, many now agree will be a key policy priority rather than something China will simply let the market fix over

At the stroke of midnight hour, a tryst with destiny ❤️

‘Faith [..] provides a social safety net that allows the likes of Jemimah to be who they are in an increasingly polarising world.’ ‘It's this combination of faith and self-belief that she wears on her sleeve that makes Jemimah a special cricketer.’

For all the flak about "lack of a social welfare safety net", China has one of the lowest pension/retirement ages in the world. Further, it's hard to imagine that China — a "loud and proud" socialist country — not investing significantly into its social welfare programs in the

In an ideal world, I'd have asked you to go & get The Fire Burns Blue by the late Sidhanta Patnaik & @kuks but it's out of stock. Try & get it from a bookseller. The success of today is built on the shoulders of the many women who fought to play the sport we love.

This is the greatest day in the history of Indian women's cricket.

Exclusive: Reliance races to get battery gear orders out of China ahead of export curbs, sources say

This online database of Chinese official documents is growing. Now at 30 items, including 6th-14th Five-Year Plans: https://t.co/NghaHObStz English translations come from a variety of sources. I'll ask permission from these groups if I end up turning this into a bigger project.

📢#18AICCS Day 1: Special Panel- I | Now underway! Theme: Current Discourses in Chinese Studies 📍Venue: Old Auditorium ⏱️Time: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Chair: Alka Acharya, Director, ICS Delhi (1/4)

Quoted in this report on #China’s new K-Visa - while Beijing tries to burnish its image as welcoming space given hardening anti-immigration stands of the US, it also realizes that global talent is required to scale up in new frontiers of technology.

🚨 Apple is lobbying India to change its income tax law of 1961 as it does not allow the U.S. giant to own iPhone machinery used by its contract manufacturers, like it can in China; India cautiously reviewing Apple request

“If I could get a job that pays enough in China, I would have never left,” said W.H. Wong. He’s one of 30,000 Chinese workers who have traveled to remote islands in Indonesia, risking their lives to work in the nickel industry 🧵

New 📜 Dzumsa is a traditional form of local self-governance institution prevalent in border villages of #Sikkim. In this Commentary, CHS Postdoctoral Fellow @Slachenpa analyzes the penetration of political clientelism within the institution.

🧵Over the last few months, we've been looking deeply into data on India's manufacturing workforce. The closer we looked, especially at data on women workers, the more we noticed one area of work in particular - 'custom tailoring'.

CHS is partnering with @ReadingHimalaya, @SikimUniversity & DG Reading Room, for a brainstorming (4-5 Dec. ‘25) on Eastern #Himalayas. It brings together a diverse set of people for engaging conversations & actionable ideas on #climate, #development, #representation & #memory.

A nationwide reskilling push aims to prepare industrial workers for automation, but the pace of change is testing both people and institutions. https://t.co/4KyMsj9c9u