As Africa toes the Chinese line…
Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa.
Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa.
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Beijing on Wednesday.
Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri visited Beijing last week marking another step towards restoring normalcy between the two nations.
India is willing to strengthen strategic communication with China, expand mutually beneficial cooperation and inject new impetus into bilateral relations, national security Adviser Ajit Doval was quoted as saying on Wednesday during his meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing.
China’s ruling Communist Party claims the self governing democracy of Taiwan as its own territory despite never having controlled it, and has not ruled out taking the island by force.
In yet another security breach by Beijing, China-based hackers breached the email accounts of the US Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns as part of a recent targeted intelligence-gathering campaign, CNN reported on Thursday citing US officials.
The world’s eyes will be on Taiwan over the next six months as the country goes to the polls in January 2024 to elect its new leader. While the vote is going to be consequential, it is unlikely to be existential.
Washington and Beijing’s prima facie diametrically opposed positions regarding the rise of China and its place in the evolving international order “should not be seen as insurmountable barriers to a more stable coexistence between the two countries,” wrote Patricia M. Kim of the Brookings Institute in a recent article.
Human beings can be hugely creative. Although population increased eight times from 1 billion to over 8 billion between year 1800 and now, they are able, by and large, to meet their needs in a better way now compared to then, avoiding for the most part the devastating famines of those times.
With Presidential elections due in a little more than six months, and with the outcome expected to directly impact ties with Beijing and geostrategic equations in the IndoPacific, Taiwan is being rocked by a succession of allegations of sexual harassment, primarily targeting members of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
