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China and India have just ended months of skirmishes on their border. For decades they have distrusted and misunderstood each other. India is now cooperating more with the US in the Quad grouping – to Beijing's displeasure. But Delhi says this is far from an alliance. India has always insisted on strategic independence.
By Christiane Kuehl
Since January 1, China's citizens have had the legal right to freely choose their names. Thanks to digitalization, they provide the world's largest surveillance apparatus with big data. The police are thrilled.
By Antje Sirleschtov
The debacle over the grounded container ship in the Suez Canal has once again shown Beijing how risky it is to become too dependent on a transport route with a bottleneck. For China, that is even more so the 900-kilometer-long Strait of Malacca near Singapore, which measures only 2.7 kilometers at its narrowest point. Most of China's raw materials have to pass through this strait. That is why China has been trying for years to build alternative supply routes as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. These are mainly pipelines.
By Frank Sieren
As Beijing secures political control of Hong Kong with electoral reform, fugitive activists are forming to fight the autocrats. Ted Hui was a Hong Kong parliamentarian, but since December, he has been on the run with his family and now lives in Australia. He now talks to China.Table about his fate and that of his fellow campaigners – between pride and fear. Giving up is not an option for them. "We keep going," says Hui.
By Marcel Grzanna