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Still unexplained

The hunt for the origins of Covid-19 has for the past four years been a tangled web of politics, power struggles, and international finger-pointing.

PM spells out India’s position on China

I n a recent interview to Newsweek, the Prime Minister, discussing Indo-China relations, commented, “For India, the relationship with China is important and significant.

Embassy violations cast a long shadow

It has long been held that embassies should be treated as “off-limits” to other nations. Yet in a single week, two governments – both long-established democracies – stand accused of violating, in different ways, the laws surrounding foreign diplomatic missions.

Putin tells Xi he understands China ‘concerns’ on war in Ukraine

The Chinese leader told Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov construction should start soon on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, according to state broadcaster China Central Television. The route will reduce Beijing’ dependence on Russia and Kazakhstan to transit goods.In a separate meeting with his Turkmenistan counterpart, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Xi said the two countries should scale up cooperation on natural gas, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Nepal’s skewed hydropower ambitions

The private sector claims that it contributes more than 56 per cent of the electricity in the system, and 215 projects with a combined capacity of 9,000 megawatts are in different phases of development with private investment. The energy sector is also the single largest attractor of foreign direct investment (FDI).

Putin-Xi meeting: Challenges for Russia and China as they test a ‘no-limits’ friendship

"China keeps avoiding military involvement in any degree in Russia's war and will continue to do so, especially when the Russians have been in a drastic failure situation in the field," said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. "China's diplomatic and political support or sympathy will not really help them, though dramatic purchases of their energy since April help a little non-militarily."