Pakistan has cautioned the international community that the absence of a two-state solution in Palestine could result in enduring conflict in the Middle East. The warning was conveyed during a…
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Amit Upadhyay repeats online misinformation as he claims to know why India’s population is growing: he says his Muslim neighbours are having too many babies, so Hindu women have a…
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Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar’s Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of a porous border with India, after tasting early success with the takeover of two military outposts…
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SHAFAQNA- Middleeasteye wrote that Keeping China away from Middle east & further isolating Iran could save USA. To maintain the United States’ leadership of the so-called “rules-based world order”, Joe Biden’s…
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NATO in the Indo-Pacific: Will India become second fiddle to the US military alliance system?
by Abbas AdilEven as France became the spoilsport of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) ambition to make its permanent presence in the Indo-Pacific with a liaison office in Tokyo, it would likely…
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The presence of geopolitical challenges and socio-economic fault lines inhibit India’s global power ambitions. Geopolitical challenges include meeting the Western apologists’ assigned role of counterweight to China, perpetual confrontation with…
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China called on Monday on India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other’s countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated…
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On June 4 in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin categorically stated that Indo-Pacific is/was US’s number-one focus area and the US will keep financing high-quality air forces…
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China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday as it pursues its ambitious plans for a…
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Youth unemployment in India is climbing sharply, a development that risks undermining the new darling of the world economy at the very moment it was expected to really take off,…
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The leaders of the Quad group — Australia, India, Japan and the United States — delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour on Saturday at a summit in Hiroshima.…
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China’s role in facilitating the recent reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been dismissed or ignored by the USA and some of its allies. Rather than applauding an initiative…
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China to send special envoy to Ukraine: Xi tells Zelenskyy in 1st phone call since war began
by Abbas AdilChina will send a special representative to Ukraine, President Xi Jinping told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a first phone call on Wednesday since Russia launched war on Ukraine…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that a 56-year-old woman from Guangdong, southeast China, has become the first known person to die from the H3N8 strain of bird flu.…
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This week’s democracy summit in Washington would be a test for Pakistan’s diplomacy as it’d look to rekindle ties with the US without irking its longtime ally China. The virtual…
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic. “The FBI has for quite…
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India will raise seven new battalions of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in the next few years, a minister said on Wednesday, amid tensions with neighbour China that led…
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China said on Monday that U.S. high-altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, widening a diplomatic row after the…
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US President Joe Biden raised concern about China’s handling of its COVID-19 outbreak hours after the World Health Organisation said it was under-reporting virus deaths, comments likely to provoke a response from…
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Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China’s raging Covid-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government’s mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for…
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China’s manufacturing activity contracted sharply in December for the third month in a row, according to official figures released Saturday, despite Beijing’s loosening of COVID restrictions at the beginning of…
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People arriving in India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand will have to show a negative Covid-19 test from Sunday, India’s health minister said. Travellers from…
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The Centre has made the RT-PCR test mandatory for international arrivals from the countries experiencing a surge in Covid cases. “The RT-PCR test will be mandatory for international arrivals from…
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China on Tuesday said it was “shocked” by a deadly attack on a Kabul hotel popular with Chinese business people, adding that five of its nationals were wounded. “This terror…
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China announced on Wednesday a nationwide loosening of Covid-19 restrictions following protests against the hardline strategy that grew into calls for greater political freedoms. Under the new guidelines, some asymptomatic…
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It is now almost within a fortnight that Rishi Sunak, the PM of United Kingdom, has provoked China over Taiwan, as his minister Greg Hands is on his visit to…
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The Chinese feel that the United States should not urge China and Pakistan to renegotiate Beijing’s debt and should not ‘bad mouth’ the Pakistan-China relationship, according to the director of…
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India and other countries feeling the weight of a “big and powerful nation” should sit together and see how to deal with the situation, German Ambassador Phillip Ackermann has said…
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Toyota Motor Corp announced on Monday the launch of a small electric sedan, which will be powered by BYD Co batteries and will be produced and sold in China. The Japanese automaker…
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Five Indian army soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed near the country’s disputed border with China, the defence ministry said on Saturday — the second such fatal accident in…