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.
In an exclusive interview to the United News of India, Prof AK Abdul Momen, who served as Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2019-2024, said that the Bangladesh-Pakistan-China axis building up could prove deeply destabilising, not just for Dhaka, but for the wider South and South East Asia
Under the winter sun of western Purulia, the rocky silhouettes of Tillaboni and Panjaniya hills stood witness on Sunday to a rare, quiet resistance.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that during Operation Sindoor, India was actually facing and fighting China, which apparently supported Pakistan during the conflict.
Coming down heavily on the Union home minister, Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said Amit Shah is the most inefficient home minister of the country since Independence.
China has claimed it helped mediate tensions between India and Pakistan after their May military clash, a claim New Delhi has repeatedly dismissed, insisting the crisis was resolved bilaterally.
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