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...
Taipei , January 29: Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) detected seven Chinese military aircraft, six naval vessels, and one balloon around Taiwan between 9 am (local time) on Sunday to 6 am (local time) on Monday. According to Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence, one of the seven People's Liberation...
"The PRC has a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined," Wray said at a congressional hearing on China on Wednesday. "In fact, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intelligence analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, China's hackers would still outnumber FBI cyber personnel...
New Delhi , January 27: Lobsang Sangay, who served as the Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile from 2011 to 2021 spoke about China's overarching strategy to assert itself as the sole superpower and its tactics in claiming territories. In an interview, he insisted that for India to understand China, it must comprehend...
Balochistan , January 27: A young Baloch poet identified as Qasim has been missing from the Kech district of Pakistan's Balochistan province. According to the Balochistan Post, a local news portal, Qasim hails from the Dasht Chat area and is now missing after he was arrested in Turbat, the central...
Gilgit-Baltistan , January 27: Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Syed Mehdi Shah called on Pakistan President Arif Alvi and discussed the increase in the prices of subsidised wheat as the residents of the region announced that they would stage marches against the hike today (Saturday). President Alvi told the governor that he had...