India, China express satisfaction over peace efforts in border areas
India and China reviewed border peace, diplomatic coordination and bilateral normalisation during the 35th WMCC meeting held in Beijing on Wednesday.
India and China reviewed border peace, diplomatic coordination and bilateral normalisation during the 35th WMCC meeting held in Beijing on Wednesday.
Without directly referring to Beijing’s aggressive posturing, the four Quad nations on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the situation in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
Nepal’s new political establishment appears determined to redraw the rules of engagement with the outside world.
China’s latest growth numbers offer reassurance at first glance, but they obscure a more uncomfortable reality: the world’s second-largest economy is increasingly reliant on external demand at precisely the moment when the global environment is turning hostile.
The latest exchange between Washington and Beijing is a reminder that beneath the courteous language of diplomacy lies a hard, immovable dispute.
Japanese Chief of Staff of the JASDF, Izutsu Shunji, put it plainly, "Japan and India are in a special strategic global partnership relationship." When viewed alongside enhanced US support towards Japan's military wherewithal, the signing of Japan's RAA with UK (earlier signed with Australia) which allows both countries to deploy forces on each other's soil, the visible presence of Indian fighter planes in Japan is loaded with portents of immense concern as far as Beijing is concerned
Coming as the statement does in the aftermath of a Pentagon report which explicitly said that US officials had been “warned” by Beijing not to interfere in the Sino-Indian relationship, the pattern is clear.
The takeover was brutal. Figures of protestor casualties vary from a few hundred to a few thousand with thousands more injured. Many fled abroad to escape prosecution. China to date refuses to release details of casualties.
Taipei has started taking concrete steps to defend and train itself in preparation for a "real war scenario," The Singapore Post reported.
''We have consistently rejected such statements in the past. The union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the union territory of Ladakh are and will always be integral and inalienable parts of India. No other country has a locus standi,'' Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing.
