China has sent 29 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence zone, according to media reports, marking the third-largest fly-by in the country this year.
The warplanes, which include 17 fighter jets, six bombers and other supporting aircraft, have entered the island’s air defence identification zone on Tuesday from the southwest, The...
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...
The economic woes that China is currently facing, prompted fears that Beijing could in turn become more aggressive, and compensate by escalating the risk of a war with the US over Taiwan, Voice of America (VOA) reported citing experts who closely follow the US-China rivalry.
Also, China’s economic slowdown —...
In a radical step, a group of lawyers has knocked on the doors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against China's increasing atrocities toward Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim populations in the Xinjiang region. Subjecting minority groups to genocide, including mass arbitrary detention, forced labour, torture, forced sterilization, separation...
Taking a veiled swipe at China and Pakistan, India slammed the attempts being made at blocking the “evidence-based” proposals to blacklist globally sanctioned terrorists in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Calling for urgent reforms of the top UN body, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj on...
Wan Jinjun, a 62-year-old retiree who has swum the Yangtze River almost every day for the past decade in Wuhan, said he’s never seen a drought like this before.
An extreme summer has taken a toll on Asia’s longest river, which flows about 3,900 miles (6,300 kilometers) through China and...
Houston: For a brief moment in 2012, it seemed like a national stalemate over guns was breaking.
Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old gunman, had forced his way into a Connecticut elementary school and massacred 26 people, mostly children, with an AR-15-style rifle. Flags flew at half-staff. A sporting goods chain suspended...
Fears over the prospect of an invasion from China is twice as high among Australians when compared to the Taiwanese, new research suggests.
An Australian Institute survey of 1,000 people each in Australia and Taiwan found one in 10 Australians believed China would invade their country “soon” compared to one...
Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t coming to India for the G20 summit, US President Joe Biden is ignoring the East Asia Summit in favour of India and Vietnam, and China has put out a map that includes Arunachal Pradesh as well as Aksai Chin as part of its territory. Welcome to the world, it just got a bit...
About an hour drive west of Shanghai, China’s most affluent county – Kunshan – has accommodated a Foxconn complex in its northern region for 30 years. And in that time, the Taiwanese electronic contract manufacturer has recruited hundreds of thousands of young workers from nearby rural areas to assemble...
