Month: August 2022

Their worries are substantiated. Since losing power at the national level, Khan’s PTI has shown formidable power on the street and at the ballot box. PTI has pulled off massive rallies almost every other week in one city after another. And it has performed exceptionally well in provincial by-elections. The […]

Yoon’s snub of Pelosi is bewildering. It is not as if Pelosi caught Seoul by surprise: Her visit to Taiwan may have been under wraps until the last minute, but her visit to South Korea was not. It is also not as if South Korea believes in the sanctity of […]

On August 24, the US said that China has cut off key communication channels and cooperation on a number of critical issues affecting the entire world. Vedant Patel, a spokesperson for the State Department, stated during a press conference that Washington is still looking for an avenue for “constructive and […]

China needs to show the world that it is not an “agent of instability” and will act peacefully in the Taiwan Strait, said US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns. Speaking to CNN, he, however, stressed that Washington does not believe that there should be a strain in the ties between […]

The death toll from the devastating floods in Pakistan reached 1,136 Monday, as international aid began trickling in following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led cash-strapped government’s desperate appeal for aid to deal with the crisis that has displaced 33 million or one-seventh of the country’s population. Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Sherry […]

Taiwan’s government seems to want it both ways—to spur foreign countries to take action to support Taiwan in the face of China’s threats while, at the same time, disregarding those threats and not acting to solve significant military problems at home. The mixed messaging was noticeable as several op-eds by […]

In view of the ongoing Chinese military drills near the Taiwanese borders, several airlines are now either cancelling their flights or diverting their route in order to avoid any untoward situation. The major South Korean airlines — Korean Air Lines and Asiana Airlines — announced to cancel their flights to […]

Soon after China confirmed it conducted “precision missile strikes” in waters off Taiwan’s coasts as part of military exercises, the Taiwan defence ministry confirmed the Beijing’s move and said it would not disclose the Chinese missile flight path due to intelligence concerns. In a statement released by the Ministry on […]

Objecting strongly to US Senator Marsha Blackburn’s recent visit to the self-administered island nation Taiwan, China has derided the United States for its violation of the “one China” principle and the three US-Sino joint communique. In a statement, Taiwan Affairs Office Spokesperson Ma Xiaoguang protested against the visit by a […]