The US and Germany on Friday vowed to stand up for free democratic societies across the world, asserting that they would make their ‘voices heard’ when they saw a country like China attempting to undermine human rights. In a meeting between US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]
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As Investors Grow Concerned About China’s Tech Crackdown, India Is Seeing A Surge In Unicorns
The last week was incredible in terms of the growth of India’s technology companies, as a record round of funding moved focus to the world’s second-largest market at a time when investors were concerned about China’s crackdown on tech firms. While the food delivery app Zomato with funding from Morgan […]
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China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas
In April 1998, with the Himalayan passes still more than 6 feet deep in snow, Penpa Tsering, a 22-year-old Tibetan herder, set off to the south from his home in Tibet across a remote 15,700-foot-high pass called the Namgung La. He was leading a train of a dozen yaks carrying […]
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After 25 Years, There’s Still No South China Sea Code of Conduct
It was on July 21, 1996, that a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia, first “ endorsed the idea of concluding a regional code of conduct in the South China Sea which will lay the foundation for long term stability in […]
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U.S.-China Competition Can Still Produce Climate Wins
The letter calls the United States’ competitive approach to China “an antagonistic posture that risks undermining much-needed climate cooperation” and calls instead for the United States to prioritize “multilateralism, diplomacy, and cooperation with China to address the existential threat that is the climate crisis.” A letter sent recently to the […]
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CIA: Inspecting the ways of deploying Specialists of China on forward post to Compete with Beijing
Washington DC, US: USA is inspecting the way if they can deploy Chinese specialist on the forward post, in order to have an effective competition with Beijing. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Burns said, “…I am exploring right now, to forward-deploy China specialists – whether it is operations officers, […]
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China Warns US Over ‘Taiwan Independence’, Calls It ‘dead-end Road’
China has warned the United States over its escalating military ties with Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island claimed by Beijing and called ‘Taiwan independence’ a ‘dead-end road’. As per news agency ANI, Chinese defence ministry spokesperson Ren Guoqiang said in a statement that Beijing firmly opposes any form of official […]
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China Is Worried About a Post-U.S. Afghanistan
But the idea that U.S. loss equals China’s gain is contradicted by China’s recent moves in Afghanistan. Since late May, the Chinese Embassy in Kabul and China’s Foreign Ministry have repeatedly urged Chinese citizens to leave Afghanistan. Beijing’s simultaneous criticism of the abrupt U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, as voiced […]
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Pakistan Bus Blast: Nine Chinese Engineers Among Killed; China Calls It An ‘attack’
Nine Chinese engineers and three died on Wednesday when a bus travelling through northwest Pakistan’s mountainous region was “attacked”. According to reports, the bus blast happened near the Dasu hydropower plant in the Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many have been reported injured. Chinese engineers killed in Pakistan The […]
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Poll: China’s Influence Is Not Inevitable
Amid the growing U.S.-China rivalry, foreign aid has become a venue for global competition. U.S. President Joe Biden and other G-7 leaders recently launched the Build Back Better World initiative to rally like-minded democracies to help close the infrastructure gap in low- and middle-income countries. Build Back Better World intends […]