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Amit Kumar

@am_i_t_kumar

Staff Research Analyst, China Studies (Indo-Pacific Studies Programme) @takshashilainst. https://takshashila.org.in/

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Congratulations to @ananthkrishnan and @the_hindu for curating this excellent volume on Indian Perspectives on #China. It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter to this edited volume alongside some of the leading experts in the field.

Here's a sneak preview looking at this volume and its fantastic contributors -- all you need to know on China and India-China relations from some of India's best minds on China, and just as PM Modi heads for his first visit there in 7 years:

ananthkrishnan's tweet image. Here's a sneak preview looking at this volume and its fantastic contributors -- all you need to know on China and India-China relations from some of India's best minds on China, and just as PM Modi heads for his first visit there in 7 years:
ananthkrishnan's tweet image. Here's a sneak preview looking at this volume and its fantastic contributors -- all you need to know on China and India-China relations from some of India's best minds on China, and just as PM Modi heads for his first visit there in 7 years:


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#ICS_WednesdaySeminar #HappeningTomorrow "New Frontiers in China's Military Organisation" Speaker: @SaxenaAnushka_ Chair: M. V. Rappai 19 Nov 2025 @ 3PM IST Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Details: icsin.org/activity/show/… YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC2kcV…

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#HappeningTomorrow

"New Frontiers in China's Military Organisation"

Speaker: @SaxenaAnushka_
Chair: M. V. Rappai
19 Nov 2025 @ 3PM IST

Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Details: icsin.org/activity/show/…
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC2kcV…

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The ISAS Seminar titled “South Asia in China’s Shifting Peripheral Diplomacy” took place on 12th November 2025 at the ISAS Board Room. The session featured Mr Manoj Kewalramani, Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at the TakshashilaInstitution, India, and was hosted…

ISASNus's tweet image. The ISAS Seminar titled “South Asia in China’s Shifting Peripheral Diplomacy” took place on 12th November 2025 at the ISAS Board Room. The session featured Mr Manoj Kewalramani, Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at the TakshashilaInstitution, India, and was hosted…

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#ICS_WednesdaySeminar #HappeningSoon "New Frontiers in China's Military Organisation" Speaker: @SaxenaAnushka_ Chair: M. V. Rappai 19 Nov 2025 @ 3PM IST Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Details: icsin.org/activity/show/… YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC2kcV…

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#HappeningSoon

"New Frontiers in China's Military Organisation"

Speaker: @SaxenaAnushka_ 
Chair: M. V. Rappai
19 Nov 2025 @ 3PM IST

Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Details: icsin.org/activity/show/…
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC2kcV…

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१२० साल पहले ये धारणा थी कि अर्जेंटीना की अर्थव्यवस्था कई स्थापित देशों को पीछे छोड़ देगी लेकिन ऐसा हुआ नहीं। आखिर क्यों? जवाब इस @puliyabaazi अंक में । youtu.be/VBKfOfcezSU?si…

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Happening Today! 7PM. Join here: meet.google.com/gur-ohog-csf

HAPPENING TODAY! OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?” Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much) and Vikrant Shinde. Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 🗓️ Friday, 14 November ⏰7:00…

TakshashilaInst's tweet image. HAPPENING TODAY! OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?”  Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much) and Vikrant Shinde.  

Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita)   

🗓️ Friday, 14 November 
 ⏰7:00…


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Kudos to the government for eliminating the onerous, competitiveness-crippling & arbitrary quality control orders (QCOs) on imports of synthetic yarn & fibers This is a critical policy action when India's apparel exports are under unfair pressure from the Trump tariffs

Our two pieces on India's trade policy The first discusses growing protectionism via a new, arbitrary & non-transparent instrument-quality control orders, taking India back to licence-quota Raj They undermine export competitiveness, especially of labor-intensive exports 1/

arvindsubraman's tweet image. Our two pieces on India's trade policy 

The first discusses growing protectionism via a new,  arbitrary & non-transparent instrument-quality control orders, taking India back to licence-quota Raj 

They undermine export competitiveness, especially of labor-intensive exports

1/


These are interesting insights from @ecb on #China's #trade surplus and why #exports are continuing to rise while #imports are falling. ecb.europa.eu/press/economic…


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How much is lithium worth? Timing is everything. Prices have fallen sharply from their peaks. "That is threatening efforts to set up alternatives to China-dominated supply chains for metals needed for industries from EVs to defence. Some 17 of 32 deals for lithium, nickel…

dunne_insights's tweet image. How much is lithium worth? Timing is everything. 

Prices have fallen sharply from their peaks. 

"That is threatening efforts to set up alternatives to China-dominated supply chains for metals needed for industries from EVs to defence. 

Some  17 of 32 deals for lithium, nickel…

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4 DAYS TO GO! OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?” Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much), and Vikrant Shinde. Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 🗓️ Friday, 14 November 🕖 7:00 PM –…

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Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?

Last year, India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) cleared the proposal for the procurement of Future Ready Combat Vehicles (FRCVs). The FRCV are supposed to be a “futuristic Main Battle Tank wit...

OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?” Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much), and Vikrant Shinde. Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 🗓️ Friday, 14 November 🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM 🔗 RSVP…

TakshashilaInst's tweet image. OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?”

Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much), and Vikrant Shinde.

Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 

🗓️ Friday, 14 November
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
🔗 RSVP…


Amit Kumar 님이 재게시함

OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?” Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much), and Vikrant Shinde. Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 🗓️ Friday, 14 November 🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM 🔗 RSVP…

TakshashilaInst's tweet image. OpenTakshashila invites you to a discussion “Should India Look Beyond Main Battle Tanks?”

Speakers: Amit Kumar (@am_i_t_kumar), Satya S. Sahu (@aytas_too_much), and Vikrant Shinde.

Moderator: Shobhankita Reddy (@shobhankita) 

🗓️ Friday, 14 November
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
🔗 RSVP…

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HAPPENING TODAY AT 7 PM ON OPENTAKSHASHILA! While there is extensive literature studying Pakistan's policies and motivations over the decades, there is a limited understanding of the architecture of India's Grand Strategy towards Pakistan. Individual events, military actions,…

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While there is extensive literature studying Pakistan's policies and motivations over the decades, there is a limited understanding of the architecture of India's Grand Strategy towards Pakistan. Individual events, military actions,…

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The latest @SinicaPodcast features the amazing Lizzi Lee (@wstv_lizzi) on China's 4th Plenum, the anti-involution push, why "overcapacity" is misleading, VAT incentives driving overcompetition, and what really happened at the Trump-Xi meeting in Busan. sinicapodcast.com/p/lizzi-lee-on…


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“The age of easy local borrowing is ending.” Beijing’s new debt watchdog will keep every yuan under its eye. China Scholar @am_i_t_kumar from @TakshashilaInst told @StratNewsGlobal. Our latest @nitingokhale @amitabhprevi @Ramananda @SaxenaAnushka_ stratnewsglobal.com/dont-miss/chin…


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Imphal Guwahati, a 40 minute flight, a flight distance of barely 274 km, is around Rs 17k-18k while Guwahati Delhi, a flight distance of 1450 km, flight time of 2.30 to 3 hrs is around Rs 7k-8k! This is nothing but daylight robbery committed upon the tragedy stricken people of…


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The writer has not written off tanks, but MBTs. For instance he says light tanks like Zorawar are needed. Cost is very much a factor today as counter systems have become cheap and abundant.


Central to deterrence, how? Insofar as occupying territory is concerned, the space for large-scale conventional land warfare is severely limited. With the advancement in modern warfare, there are better cost-effective ways to gain leverage -think of deep strike capabilities

MBTs are central to deterrence & rapid response. No drone swarm can occupy or hold territory — tanks can @DefProdnIndia @AVANI_PR



These kinds of ad hominem attacks are not appreciated. Be open to ideas. The goal is to have debates and discussions in India's national interest.

I am sure the writer has never entered the Army unit where MBT runs .....Too much focus on cost and new modern warfare like drone .... MBTs are not obsolete — they are evolving. Modern armour fights as part of a networked, drone-integrated system, not in isolation.



Russia's advances in Ukraine are not a result of its armoured thrust. It's a function of the massive power differential between the two armies. And despite that massive power differential, Ukraine took out 25% of its pre war inventory.

Ukraine conflict (2022-25) proves that both sides still rely heavily on tanks — even after massive UAV usage. Losses have driven innovation, not abandonment, of MBTs (APS retrofits, cage armour, drone integration).



And where in the Indian context do you envisage urban combat? Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukriane are not the right case studies to argue for the continued relevance of MBTs. The sheer power asymmetry that exists bw actors in the abovementioned cases doesn't exist with Pak or China

Israel’s Gaza operations (2023-24) revalidated the armour-infantry synergy for urban combat and area control.



This isn't correct. Life cycle cost of maintaining MBTs is much higher. Also, not convinced if spreading the cost of MBTs over 30 yrs is the right argument. Cost matters. If all platforms are equally vulnerable, why field a super expensive platform in the middle?

Cost ≠ weakness. A ₹64 cr MBT serves 30+ years — far longer than rotating drone fleets needing constant replenishment. Lifecycle cost per combat year remains competitive @AVANI_PR



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