India, Aug. 15 -- China is trying to use local Uyghurs as a part of its propaganda tool to showcase the happy face of the community among Pakistani people. Experts see it as an attempt made by China to downplay the Chinese government's horrific treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Several...
The US is not working to create a “NATO for the Pacific” as a way to target China, the White House has claimed, after President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of security cooperation with South Korea and Japan. Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at Camp David...
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI: China's military began drills around Taiwan on Saturday, saying it was a "serious warning" to separatist forces in an angry and widely expected response to a visit by Vice President William Lai to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei. Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan's president at elections in January,...
The price of hedging China risk on world markets hasn’t fluttered during the past couple of weeks, which means that investors with real money on the line and speculators looking for a score aren’t worried about China’s property market. Credit default swaps are a form of bond insurance that makes...
On 28 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second annual SemiconIndia 2023 conference as part of the India Semiconductor Mission. Prior to the event, Micron Technology announced plans to set up operations in India. It is the largest investment by a single company so far, of over $850...
BEIJING: For the second straight month, a slew of disappointing economic data from China spurred investment banks around the world to cut their 2023 growth outlook. The wave of downgrades highlights the danger of the world’s second-biggest economy missing its official target of around 5% expansion for this year, without...
China, an upper riparian nation, has built roughly eight hydroelectric power projects (HPPs) on the lower levels of the Brahmaputra; some of them are currently operational, others are being built, and one mega-dam is being considered, according to the Daily Mirror. According to Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), the...
Analysis of hundreds of posts and videos on major Chinese social media platforms like Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu reveals that the platforms don’t have a uniform approach to moderating racist content. This was especially true of racist content directed at Black people. The findings are part of a...
KATHMANDU: Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested four more Chinese nationals in connection with the gold smuggling attempt from the Tribhuvan International Airport that took place on July 18 this year. The CIB arrested the suspected Chinese nationals from various locations of Kathmandu after an overnight...
In unprecedented moves, Chinese ruler Xi Jinping replaced the senior leadership of China's Rocket Force, which is responsible for almost all of China's 400 or so nuclear warheads. These personnel changes are part of what is almost certainly the most ominous development of this time. It looks like Xi is contemplating...