Diplomats made the statements at the current UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council called on China on Tuesday to implement recommendations made by the U.N.’s human rights office in a two-year-old report issued and to release Uyghurs and others unjustly...
The Philippines has said China’s deployment of its largest coastguard vessel inside Manila’s exclusive maritime economic zone (EEZ) is alarming and clearly intended to intimidate fishermen operating around a shoal in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
Philippines National Security Council spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said on Tuesday that...
Tibetan sociologist Gyal Lo remembers receiving a phone call in 2016 about what he describes as “a serious matter.” It was his brother, calling with concerns about his grandchildren, who “had become strangely different.”
The children had “forgotten the Tibetan they knew and could no longer speak it properly,” says...
Within months, both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely to be in the same room again.
But whether the two leaders will hold bilateral talks and seek to mend their countries’ deeply strained ties remains to be seen.
Doubtful Indian foreign-policy observers cite New Delhi’s...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly hiring Western military aviators to enhance its combat readiness in anticipation of a potential conflict with Taiwan. This revelation comes from a Taiwanese military expert who has raised alarms about the implications of such hires for regional security.
The expert noted that Western...
China's food delivery industry is experiencing a downturn after significant growth during the Covid-19 pandemic. Delivery workers' earnings have dropped by nearly 1,000 yuan ($140) per month compared to five years ago, according to a report from the China New Employment Research Center.
The $200 billion food delivery sector, the largest in...
Australia has banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook Silicon Valley and global markets this year.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement Tuesday that all DeepSeek...
As China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) made its debut on Chinese social media platforms and opened a channel to report suspected spy activities, and also released on Thursday a video featuring major incidents such as the black-clad riots in Hong Kong in 2019 and the return of Huawei's...
Tokyo , October 14: The Japanese government has become concerned about its economic dependency on China amid intensifying US-China strategic competition, China's track record of economic coercion and its long-term objectives to secure its own "core interests", Asia Times reported.
Asia Times is a pan-Asia online news platform covering politics,...
Amid escalating security concerns in East Asia, Japan is examining the possibility of employing civilian infrastructure for military purposes and has reportedly identified 33 airports and ports in 10 prefectures as potential candidates for expansion.
According to Nikkei Asia, the Japanese government’s decision is aligned with a comprehensive national security...
