August was a bad month for China. Mounting reports buttressed the view that China’s economy is not only in a downturn, but faces daunting long-term obstacles and declining confidence among its citizens.
Beijing objected to leaders from the United States, Japan and South Korea meeting together and calling for “peace and stability across the...
New Delhi: When university students in China donned their graduation robes this summer, many did not pose for the usual photos depicting jubilation and victory. Instead, they flooded social media platforms with snaps hinting at dejection and despair. Some posed as corpses, others appeared to bin their graduation theses.
These viral...
An 11-member Swedish parliamentary delegation attended the 63rd-anniversary celebration of the Tibetan Democracy Day on Saturday and expressed solidarity with Tibetans.
The delegation, led by Margareta Elisabeth Cederfelt, also met the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and stressed the importance of his message advocating for peace.
The 2nd of September marks...
As China begins implementing on Sep 1 a new set of measures to restrict religious freedom across the country, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, has expressed serious concern over its particularly serious implications on the situation Tibet.
China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs promulgated the “Measures for...
New Delhi: With less than a week to go before India hosts the G20 summit in New Delhi, reports have indicated that Chinese President Xi Jinping might skip the summit this year, whereas US President Joe Biden has confirmed that he will attend. And despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Russia has openly backed "friend" India over the China map controversy. The Russian envoy to India said it doesn't change the situation on the ground. Denis Alipov added that, like India, Russia also does not exaggerate this issue. Russia is the fifth country to back India over the Chinese...
Tensions are flaring between Pakistan and Myanmar as a fleet of newly acquired JF-17s fighter planes supplied by Pakistan face significant operational issues. The Myanmar military junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has expressed his displeasure to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and military chief, General Asim Munir. These JF-17...
China has unleashed a cartographic war in the Indo-Pacific region yet again. This time, China’s internationally discredited and laughable nine-dash line has seen the addition of another line — east of Taiwan. Effectively, China now has a 10-dash-line at its disposal to illegally stake mindless territorial and maritime claims...
The past six months has brought a stream of bad news for China's economy: slow growth, record youth unemployment, low foreign investment, weak exports and currency, and a property sector in crisis.
US President Joe Biden described the world's second-largest economy as "a ticking time bomb", predicting growing discontent in...
