Labour has warned China that it will respond to any interference in UK democracy after the government announced fresh sanctions against hackers linked to Beijing. The warning came at the party’s first public meeting with the Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour leader. Catherine West, the shadow Asia minister, travelled...
China’s latest action on Hong Kong is no surprise, ever since the 2019 protests, President Xi Jinping’s government has steadily eroded the freedom promised to the people under one nation two system agreement signed before the British handed over the territory to China in 1997. The China-British Joint Declaration of...
A new heavy attack helicopter is expected to play a critical role in any potential People's Liberation Army operations against Taiwan or India, according to analysts. The first images of the new helicopter emerged on Chinese social media platforms including Weibo last week, with observers referring to it as the...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on March 25 reacted to Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar's statement on Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese Foreign Ministry's spokesperson, Lin Jian, said that the Zangnan (Arunachal) region has always been Chinese territory, and India illegally occupied it in 1987. Jaishankar on March 23 called China's...
A former president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), Chen Xuyuan, has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery, according to the country's state media. In January, he pleaded guilty to accepting bribes totalling 81 million yuan ($11.2m; £8.9m). An anti-corruption crackdown led by President Xi Jinping has cut through...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday expressed confidence in the future of India-Russia relations, and stressed that Moscow has always maintained a strong and positive relationship with New Delhi. EAM Jaishankar, while interacting with the Indian community during his visit to Singapore, said that both India and Russia have...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were responsible for last week’s attack on a concert hall outside Moscow. However, he suggested that Ukraine was also somehow involved. Russian authorities have detained 11 people in connection with the March 22 attack on Crocus City...
China fumed following India's support for the Philippines as Beijing is locked in a series of provocative clashes with Manila in the South China Sea. "Maritime disputes are issues between the countries concerned," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday. "Third parties have no right to interfere whatsoever....
The Biden administration will enlarge a list of companies under an import ban because of their alleged ties to forced labor in China, an official said, a move that would intensify pressure on some corporate supply chains. Many more companies will be added to what is known as the Uyghur...
Nikolai Nozdrev, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Japan, warned Tokyo of severe repercussions and punitive measures if Patriot missile systems manufactured in Japan under license from the United States were to be sent to Ukraine. This statement was made during his inaugural interview as...