While warships from India, Japan, Australia, and the US are engaged in high-end warfare training in Australia as part of the Malabar Exercise 2023, hundreds of Chinese satellites are reportedly collecting valuable intelligence on the ongoing military drills. The origins of Exercise Malabar trace back to 1992 when it started...
India, Aug. 15 -- China is trying to use local Uyghurs as a part of its propaganda tool to showcase the happy face of the community among Pakistani people. Experts see it as an attempt made by China to downplay the Chinese government's horrific treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Several...
The US is not working to create a “NATO for the Pacific” as a way to target China, the White House has claimed, after President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of security cooperation with South Korea and Japan. Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at Camp David...
Twitter is apparently set to scrap a feature which allows users to block unwelcome followers, with site owner Elon Musk arguing it “makes no sense.” It remains to be seen how the change will be implemented, as some major app stores require a built-in blocking option. Musk announced the upcoming change on...
The United States prevailed on Japan and South Korea on Friday to use their strongest language yet in a joint statement to condemn China's "dangerous and aggressive actions" in the South China Sea. In the Korean version of a Camp David summit joint statement seen by Reuters, the three countries committed to consult...
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI: China's military began drills around Taiwan on Saturday, saying it was a "serious warning" to separatist forces in an angry and widely expected response to a visit by Vice President William Lai to the United States, drawing condemnation from Taipei. Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan's president at elections in January,...
ISLAMABAD (PAKISTAN): Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi demanded ‘B-Class facilities’ for her husband under ‘Pakistan Prison Rules’, ARY News reported on Friday. Bushra Bibi wrote a letter to the home secretary of Punjab province and noted that B-Class facilities are liable to be given to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...
The price of hedging China risk on world markets hasn’t fluttered during the past couple of weeks, which means that investors with real money on the line and speculators looking for a score aren’t worried about China’s property market. Credit default swaps are a form of bond insurance that makes...
On 28 July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second annual SemiconIndia 2023 conference as part of the India Semiconductor Mission. Prior to the event, Micron Technology announced plans to set up operations in India. It is the largest investment by a single company so far, of over $850...
BEIJING: For the second straight month, a slew of disappointing economic data from China spurred investment banks around the world to cut their 2023 growth outlook. The wave of downgrades highlights the danger of the world’s second-biggest economy missing its official target of around 5% expansion for this year, without...