Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key ...

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...

If India and China are unable to talk, it would clearly take the bottom out of BRICS and create a gaping hole in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) forum as well," she said.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

India and China have agreed to resume direct air services after nearly five years and work on resolving differences over trade and economic issues, New Delhi said, as relations continue to thaw ...

India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ...

Michael Kugelman is a Washington, D.C.-based South Asia analyst. In June 2020, a bloody border clash broke out between India and China in the Ladakh region—the deadliest since a 1962 war ...

The events this week highlighted how the competition between India and China is about more than raw power. It's also a competition between two very different political ideologies.

Aadil Brar is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers international security, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian security. Aadil previously reported for the BBC World Service ...

The U.S. government “hopes that India can become an important part of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy and to turn India into a bridgehead or important chess piece for containing China,” he said.

The latest violence between India and Pakistan also offers a "potentially rich intelligence harvest" for China, which has advanced enough capabilities to "deeply scrutinize Indian actions in real ...