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.
''Bharat Mata ki Jai,'' some of the protestors, including women, shouted as they stepped on the Chinese flags and burnt them. They demanded that China leave Tibet while appealing to the international community to stand up against Beijing.
The organisers reported 24 new Covid-19 cases among Games-related personnel on January 31, of which 16 were athletes. Many athletes have been ruled out of the Feb. 4-20 Games after testing positive on arrival at the airport while others who are asymptomatic are isolating.
The government in Beijing, helmed by President Xi Jinping, has tightened the screws over the past year, leading to a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, the closure of independent news outlets, the calculated removal of monuments to dissent, and an election in which people’s participation was pathetically poor. Small wonder the thoroughly contrived tryst with democracy is deemed laughable by many.
The latest Covid-19 resurgence in China has spread to 21 provincial-level regions, where new locally transmitted cases or asymptomatic carriers were reported in the past few days, according to the National Health Commission (NHC).
The law states, among other things, that China abides by treaties concluded with or jointly acceded to by foreign countries on land boundary affairs.
