China promptly issued a protest on Monday after a US Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane flew through the Taiwan Strait in what the Seventh Fleet said was a show of the US “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
Beijing said the US action “deliberately interrupted and undermined peace and...
With Chinese President Xi Jinping skipping a G-20 summit for the first time, Beijing is sending “deliberate signals” to India and the West by essentially downgrading its involvement in a key international forum, according to current and former officials and people familiar with Beijing’s thinking.
Missing the summit, they said, conveys China’s...
China is strengthening its economic ties with its neighbours in Southeast Asia through ASEAN, the region's political and economic union. As China recently hased out out details of a bolstered free trade agreement with ASEAN, it is worth considering another major trade project — the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Geneva , June 29: Human rights activists, intellectuals and diplomats gathered in Geneva on Wednesday to voice concern over the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities by Pakistan and China through systematic torture and discrimination.
They raised concern over the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistan against Baloch, Sindhi and the Pashtuns, and against the...
China has long been the engine of global growth.
But in recent weeks, its economic slowdown has alarmed international leaders and investors who are no longer counting on it to be a bulwark against weakness elsewhere. In fact, for the first time in decades, the world’s second economy is itself the problem.
Hong...
(New York) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres should press Chinese President Xi Jinping to end Chinese authorities’ crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other serious rights abuses in China during his upcoming visit, Human Rights Watch said today.
Guterres is expected to attend the third Belt and Road Forum...
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 secretly building the world's biggest dam over the mighty Brahmaputra River which is likely to jeopardise the ecology, environment and morphology.
If the mega project goes through will immensely cause hardship for several million people in downstream India, and of course Bangladesh.
China's $1.5 billion dam over Brahmaputra, known as...
WASHINGTON: Suspicions that China is operating intelligence collection outposts in Cuba have renewed concerns over its efforts to establish a global network for power projection amid growing mistrust between Washington and Beijing.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing last week on Sunday and Monday to meet with Chinese...
BERLIN, Dec 13: The auditor hired by Volkswagen to audit its jointly-owned site in Xinjiang posted a statement on LinkedIn flagging that just two employees supervised the project, in a sign of the reputational challenges posed by undertaking such work in the region.
Volkswagen commissioned Loening GmbH to audit its...
