https://www.scmp.com/rss/331147/feed Amar Diwakar is a freelance writer and researcher of international affairs and political economy, focused on the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and the Belt and Road Initiative. He holds an MSc in international politics from SOAS, University of London en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Unsurprisingly, Indian leaders were absent from China’s Belt and Road Forum on April 26-27. This marked the second time they had boycotted the event, rooted in concerns that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project violates India’s territorial integrity. Alongside the US and Japan, India has been highly critical of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, labelling it as “debt-trap diplomacy.” Just last month, New Delhi set up an Indo-Pacific division in its Ministry of External Affairs, which is... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3010499/can-india-narrow-its-gap-china-defence-diplomacy-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3010499/can-india-narrow-its-gap-china-defence-diplomacy-and?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 May 2019 23:30:06 +0000 In October 2017, President Xi Jinping laid out a bold plan at the Communist Party’s 19th National Party Congress, citing artificial intelligence, big data and the internet as central technologies that would transform China into an advanced economy over the coming decades. It was the crystallisation of an ambitious strategy, in part triggered by the collective trauma endured on May 27 of that year when the AI system AlphaGo triumphed over Chinese Go master Ke Jie.  As Kai-Fu Lee writes in AI... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2189137/china-knows-artificial-intelligence-rewriting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2189137/china-knows-artificial-intelligence-rewriting?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:00:30 +0000