Taipei , February 3: Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) has said that it has detected 10 Chinese military aircraft and five naval ships around Taiwan in the past 24 hours, till 6 am (local time) on Saturday.
Taiwan's MND did not reveal whether the Chinese military aircraft crossed into...
The Chinese authorities have permanently stationed four warships in the waters around the island of Taiwan.
According to the newspaper, Beijing thereby expects to put pressure on the Taipei administration in peacetime, as well as prevent US ships from approaching the island in the event of a conflict in the...
House Speaker Mike Johnson issued a warning Wednesday about China's "organ harvesting" during a speech emphasizing the importance of religious freedom.
Johnson delivered the address at the International Religious Freedom Summit, where he emphasized the importance of religious freedom across the globe. He warned that government becomes "tyrannical" when it...
For the second year in a row, China's population fell.
Data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's population declined by two million in 2023 while the birth rate fell from 6.77 births to 6.39 births per 1,000 people — a record low.
China has been scrambling to...
India needs to carefully watch developments in the Taiwan Strait as it was and remains the most dangerous conflict point in the Indo-Pacific. India’s Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale has said that any friction in the Taiwan Strait will have major implications for the Indian economy.
“US and China are...
One of the Chinese government’s top political institutions has removed a prominent rocket research chief, adding to the number of apparent purges in Beijing over the past several months.
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference revoked the membership of Wang Xiaojun during a Monday meeting.
Wang led the China Academy of...
In the last two decades or so, the white papers published by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China have become one of the prominent state-sponsored propaganda mechanisms of the Chinese government. Just within three weeks of the beginning of the new year (2024), on...
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar may disagree, but the country has failed to use its import trade muscle to improve its diplomatic relations with China. His recent statement on Sino-India relations at a gathering in Nagpur earlier this month that “a strife-torn border and good business can’t go...
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal remains a non-starter despite recent assertion by the Himalayan state’s deputy prime minister that the two countries will “very soon” sign a plan to implement the ambitious infrastructure programme.
Nepal and China signed a memorandum of understanding on BRI in 2017. Nearly...
WASHINGTON — The United States (US) government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials and one person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation sought and received legal authorization to...
