ISSUE/POLICY BRIEFS & REPORTS
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PORTENDS OF THE XI-PUTIN SUMMIT IN MAY 2024 Summits between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are invariably closely monitored in world capitals, especially since the onset of Russia’s war with Ukraine in 2022 and the two having declared a “no limits friendship”! China is the largest country to sustain Russia’s effort to withstand Western pressure. The Summits also incrementally advance their common agenda of changing the existing world order to make it “more fair” and “equitable”. Xi Jinping has already articulated the principal features of the world order envisioned by him, namely a community of common destiny, and the Global Civilisational Initiative (GCI), Global Development Initiative (GDI) and Global Security Initiative (GSI). By initiating the war with Ukraine, Putin has fired the first salvo in the bid to replace the existing world order and US dominance.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Jun 2024 |
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THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY (PLA)’S NEW INFORMATION SUPPORT FORCE On April 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that a new People's Liberation Army (PLA) Information Support Force had been established. At the same time he announced establishment of the PLA Aerospace Support Force and PLA Cyberspace Support Force and the disbandment of the PLA Strategic Support Force (SSF). Together this constitutes the largest reorganisation of the PLA since the one effected in 2016. The reorganisation comes a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to PLA and PAP Deputies attending the National People’s Congress (NPC) session on March 7, 2024. In this speech he emphasised the importance of using emerging fields and building strategic combat capabilities. Details of the leadership or specialist functions of the Forces have, however, not yet been revealed.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Jun 2024 (This Issue Brief was first published by Vivekananda International foundation (VIF)) |
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INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING’S THREE NATION EUROPEAN TOUR Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) member and Director of the CCP CC General Office Cai Qi and Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, arrived in Paris on May 5, on the first leg of his carefully crafted three-nation 5-day European tour. He was received at Orly airport by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. It was Xi’s first trip to Europe in five years. The countries to be visited were carefully chosen with France, the most difficult, first on Xi’s itinerary. Xi would have been encouraged by German Chancellor Scholz bending his knee in Beijing in April this year, and would have thought he could build on French President Macron’s visit to Beijing in April 2023. The main aim of Xi’s tour was to tempt EU and European countries with the financial benefits of partnering with China, weaken the EU, and further its decades old effort to drive a wedge between the EU and the U.S. The spokesperson of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Xi Jinping's visits as "vitally important for China’s relations with France, Serbia, Hungary and the EU at large".
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE May 2024 (This Issue Brief was first published by Vivekananda International foundation (VIF)) |
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TENSIONS SHOW IN US-CHINA TIES DURING US SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN’S VISIT US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's three day (April 24-26) visit to Shanghai and Beijing was an apparent attempt to arrest the slide in relations and simultaneously make clear the US 'red lines'. Since Biden became US President, Blinken is the senior-most US official to visit the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Nevertheless, the visit coincided with the US authorising a US$ 90 billion aid package to Ukraine and Taiwan. China too used the visit to set out its 'red lines', restate its ambitions, and signal that it has serious reservations about US claims that it wants to stabilise relations and doesn't want to challenge its core interests or prevent China's growth.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Apr 2024 (This Issue Brief was first published by Vivekananda International foundation (VIF)) |
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CHINA’S 14TH NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS SESSION GIVES NEW DIRECTION TO PLA The plenary sessions of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top
political advisory body, and the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s version of a parliament,
which opened in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on March 4 and March 5 respectively amid high
security provided a fresh thrust to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The observations by the NPC
deputies and CPPCC delegates give some insight into the mood and thinking of the Chinese
authorities. The NPC session (March 5-11) signalled that Xi Jinping had still further consolidated his
stature as China’s preeminent leader and more firmly stamped the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s
imprimatur on the state. Equally importantly, it reaffirmed China’s global leadership ambitions.
Mr. JAYADEVA RANADE Mar 2024 (This Issue Brief was first published by Vivekananda International foundation (VIF)) |
Mr. Jayadeva Ranade, President, CCAS along with Dr. Abhishek Darbey, Research Fellow, CCAS presented the Directory of the People's Liberation Army, Western Theatre Command (May 2023) to Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari PVSM AVSM VM ADC on 22 June, 2023 
Bio-profiles of the 24 members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s apex body, the 20th Politburo, prepared by the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy (CCAS) 
Bios of The People's Liberation Army (PLA)'s Representation in the 20th Central Committee (CC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 
Mr Jayadeva Ranade's address at the Army Commanders Conference, December 10,2022 
Mr Jayadeva Ranade, President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy #CCAS called on General Manoj Pande #COAS and discussed contemporary geopolitical and national security issues.  
Centre for China Analysis and Strategy proudly continues to make meaningful contributions towards 'Understanding #China' and has produced a comprehensive directory of the People's Liberation Army, Western Theatre Command (updated till May 2023). EVENTSThe Chief of Army Staff, General Manoj Pande, PVSM AVSM VSM ADC delivered the keynote address at the inaugural session of the two-day strategic dialogue in Pune on the subject 'Rise of China and Its Implications for the World' organised by the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy and the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies (DDSS) of the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). 
2nd STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON RISE OF CHINA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORLD: SESSION II - INAUGURAL, Jayadeva Ranade, President, CCAS, DDSS SPPU, Mar 28, 2023 
2nd STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON RISE OF CHINA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORLD : SESSION I - INAUGURAL, Jayadeva Ranade, President, CCAS, DDSS SPPU, Mar 27, 2023 Rise of China and Implications for the World co-hosted with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung India, Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Pune University and Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies from 10-12 April 2022 in Pune 
Seminar organised by the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy (CCAS) and Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies (CASS) on 'India-China Relations in the Twenty First Century : Challenges and Opportunities' held on 03rd March 2020. The event was supported by ICWA and also by Maharashtra Education Society, Pune on 3 March 2020. 
Seminar organized by Centre for China Analysis and Strategy & Delhi Journalists Association titled 'Understanding China's Rise' held at IIC on 28 February 2020. |
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