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The New Bhai-Bhai at an ‘Informal Summit’, Modi and Xi Signal That India Rni No OC AGEING INDIA GOVERNMENT POLICY THE RSS HAND A QUIET CRISIS www.indiatoday.in MAY 7, 2018 `60 9 770254 839909 REGISTERED NO. DL(ND)-11/6068/2018-20; U(C)-88/2018-20; FARIDABAD/05/2017-19 LICENSED TO POST WITHOUT PREPAYMENT DL(ND)-11/6068/2018-20; U(C)-88/2018-20; FARIDABAD/05/2017-19 REGISTERED NO. INDIA-CHINA THE NEW BHAI-BHAI AT AN ‘INFORMAL SUMMIT’, MODI AND XI SIGNAL THAT INDIA RNI NO. 28587/75 RNI NO. AND CHINA CAN BE PARTNERS IN A FRACTIOUS WORLD. BUT CAN THEY KEEP THEIR TRADITIONAL CONFLICTS ON HOLD? china-india cover.indd 1 25/04/18 8:37 pm DIGITAL EDITION OC AGEING INDIA GOVERNMENT POLICY THE RSS HAND A QUIET CRISIS www.indiatoday.in MAY 7, 2018 `60 9 770254 839909 REGISTERED NO. DL(ND)-11/6068/2018-20; U(C)-88/2018-20; FARIDABAD/05/2017-19 LICENSED TO POST WITHOUT PREPAYMENT DL(ND)-11/6068/2018-20; U(C)-88/2018-20; FARIDABAD/05/2017-19 REGISTERED NO. INDIACHINA THE NEW BHAIBHAI AT AN ‘INFORMAL SUMMIT’, MODI AND XI SIGNAL THAT INDIA RNI NO. 28587/75 RNI NO. AND CHINA CAN BE PARTNERS IN A FRACTIOUS WORLD. BUT CAN THEY KEEP THEIR TRADITIONAL CONFLICTS ON HOLD? china-india cover.indd 1 25/04/18 8:37 pm EXCLUSIVE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ONLY FOR IPAD COVER STORY A FRESH START POLITICS PEOPLE'S CM BIG STORY LEFT TURN AHEAD STATES WHILE THE BIG GUNS FIGHT... STATES CHOUHAN'S MAN SWADESHI THE SAFFRON HAND #TheNewBhaiBhai SUBSCRIBE NOW www.indiatoday.in/digitalmagazines FROM THE www.indiatoday.in EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Aroon Purie GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa he signs were out there. India ties with Russia and both standing up to EDITORS: Kaveree Bamzai (Special Projects), Ajit Kumar Jha (Research) took extra care to honour Chinese and engaging with China are the broad GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR: Bandeep Singh MANAGING EDITORS: Kai Jabir Friese, Rajesh Jha sensitivities on the Dalai Lama, aspects of the emerging Modi world view. EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Damayanti Datta, S. Sahaya Ranjit, T and China endorsed India’s de- The two leaders will meet each Sandeep Unnithan DEPUTY EDITORS: Prachi Bhuchar, Uday Mahurkar, Manisha Saroop mand to include a specific anti-terrorism other again at the Shanghai Cooperation Mumbai: M.G. Arun Hyderabad: Amarnath K. Menon Chandigarh: Asit Jolly section in the BRICS’ Xiamen summit in Organi sation summit in early June. Un- SENIOR EDITORS: Shweta Punj, Sasi Nair, Alokparna Das Jaipur: Rohit Parihar September, barely a week after the sudden der Xi, China is said to be practising what SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Kaushik Deka, Ashish Mukherjee end to a 72-day border stand-off. The its state media calls ‘Xiplomacy’ which Mumbai: Suhani Singh, Kiran Dinkar Tare; patna: Amitabh Srivastava ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Shougat Dasgupta, Chinki Sinha bluster gave way to quiet diplomacy and combines strong nationalism and asser- Kolkata: Romita Sengupta; Bhopal: Rahul Noronha; Thiruvananthapuram: Jeemon Jacob; BeiJing: Ananth Krishnan the sabre-rattling was replaced by low-key tiveness on China’s core interests and ter- ASSISTANT EDITOR: pune: Aditi S. Pai communication. China’s English newspa- ritorial disputes. With America retreating PHOTO DEPARTMENT: Vikram Sharma (Deputy Photo Editor), Rajwant Singh Rawat (Principal Photographer), per, The Global Times, a mouthpiece of the from global affairs except occasionally Chandra Deep Kumar (Photographer); Mumbai: Mandar Suresh government, even invoked an old Chinese threatening to nuke North Korea and ac- Deodhar (Chief Photographer), Danesh Adil Jassawala (Photographer); ahmedabad: Shailesh B Raval (Principal Photographer); proverb to describe the relationship tually bombing Syria, China is poised for Kolkata: Subir Halder (Principal Photographer); Chennai: N.G. Jaison (Senior Photographer) between China and India today: Friends a new proactive approach, moving away PHOTO RESEARCHERS: Prabhakar Tiwari (Chief Photo Researcher), are often made after a fight. After the from non-interference in international Saloni Vaid (Principal Photo Researcher), Shubhrojit Brahma (Photo Researcher) Doklam stand-off on whichindia today disputes and its past practice of not main- CHIEF OF GRAPHICS: Tanmoy Chakraborty did a cover story asking if there would be taining foreign military bases. Xi calls this ART DEPARTMENT: Sanjay Piplani (Senior Art Director); Jyoti K. Singh (Art Director), Vikas Verma (Associate Art Director); war, there was a calm interrupted only by the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese na- Bhoomesh Dutt Sharma (Senior Designer) Siddhant Jumde (Senior Illustrator) a series of high-level visits beginning with tion”, which coupled with a better life for PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT: Harish Agarwal (Chief of Production), Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s India people at home, something he describes Naveen Gupta (Chief Coordinator), Vijay Kumar Sharma (Senior Coordinator) trip in December. The elevation of Vijay as the “Chinese dream”, is how he plans to PUBLISHING DIRECTOR: Manoj Sharma Gokhale, former ambassador to Beijing, bolster the legitimacy of the Communist ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Anil Fernandes (Impact) to the post of Foreign Secretary, hastened Party of China. An insightful report from IMPACT TEAM Senior General Manager: Jitender Lad (West) this breaking of ice, with three significant our Beijing correspondent Associate Edi- General Manager: Mayur Rastogi (North), visits to China in quick succession in tor Ananth Krishnan on the Xi Doctrine Upendra Singh (Bangalore), Kaushiky Gangulie (East) April—of National Security Advisor Ajit explains how China wants to be a status GROUP CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER: Vivek Malhotra Assistant General Manager: Garima Prashar (Marketing) Doval, External Affairs Minister Sushma superpower validated not by what it is SALES AND OPERATIONS: D.V.S. 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