The meeting was attended by External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japan Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
India’s maritime ambitions cannot be measured by a ceremonial warship commissioning or ambitious infrastructure announcements alone.
China’s latest economic numbers expose a contradiction that has been building for years.
The US President also alleged that intelligence referring to possible ballot manufacturing and efforts to influence journalists was withheld from him and Congress.
The Chinese Embassy also pointed to rising AI adoption, stronger manufacturing output, expanding trade with Africa and continued investment in research and development as evidence that China's economic momentum remains intact despite growing global protectionism.
The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within.
The United States' move to 'attack' Venezuela and capture its president, Nicolas Maduro, has invoked strong reactions from China, which shares a close relationship with the South American country.
US President Donald Trump’s decision to publicly shrug off China’s latest military drills around Taiwan may sound reassuring, but it masks a far more consequential reality unfolding in the western Pacific.
With an eye on the 2026 Assembly elections, the Trinamul Congress rolled out a state-wide mass outreach campaign aimed at taking its 15-year governance record directly to the people, blending political mobilisation with a detailed presentation of the state government’s developmental narrative.
Baloch leader Mir Yar Baloch has claimed that China could deploy its military forces in Pakistan's Balochistan region within the next few months, warning that the deepening China-Pakistan alliance poses a serious threat.
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