Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington, DC, on Sep 23 evening for a three-day state visit with a prior warning that the US should not cross four “red lines” – Taiwan, democracy and human rights, China’s development path and political system, and its development rights – reported the New...
An excerpt from a speech Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif delivered at the United Nations last year is circulating widely again, just ahead of his upcoming address before the General Assembly. In the clip, Sharif can be heard telling the 80th UN General Assembly on September 2026, 2025, "Had...
Xi Jinping’s visit to Xinjiang for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region offered the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a carefully managed stage on which to present stability, development and ethnic unity. State messaging emphasized a prosperous “modern socialist Xinjiang” and portrayed the autonomous-region...
The Philippines said a China Coast Guard ship “rammed” one of its fisheries department boats on Friday in contested waters in the South China Sea.
China’s coast guard subsequently blamed the actions of the Philippine vessel, which it said “bears full responsibility for the incident.”
The incident took place near a...
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has accused the Shehbaz Sharif government in Islamabad and the Field Marshal Asim Munir-led army of institutional diktat, alleging gunpoint kidnappings and attempts to kidnap its leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), days before the party's planned mega protest.
Pakistan's opposition PTI has...
Political tensions in Pakistan are rising ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) planned protest on September 27, with authorities stepping up warnings against the march and arresting three sisters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
A day after Aleema Khan was taken into custody, Pakistani authorities arrested Khan’s other two...
China used its annual Xiangshan security forum to call for closer international cooperation on security issues, as Defence Minister Dong Jun held a series of meetings with foreign defence officials in Beijing.
Dong met counterparts and senior officials from Myanmar, Brunei, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, along with ASEAN Secretary-General...
Ahead of China's President Xi Jinping's visit to the US, a Tibetan advocacy group has urged US President Donald Trump to seek the release of the Panchen Lama and press for resumption of substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said in a statement here...
A new Anthropic threat intelligence report titled ‘Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026’ provides disturbing evidence of China-based, government-aligned actors targeting the Tibetan exile government or the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), members of the Tibetan Buddhist civil society and advocacy organizations, including the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and...
Gwadar was supposed to be Dubai. It was supposed to be Singapore. It was supposed to be Shanghai. That is what Pakistan promised when China launched the $65 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in 2015. Gwadar, a sleepy fishing town in Balochistan, was called the crown jewel of the...
