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.
The sentencing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong under its controversial National Security Law signifies a turning point in the former British colony’s political and legal history.
China recently invited journalists from a select media network to Beijing, entertained them, and arranged interactions with select officials who parroted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) line on Indo-China ties.
The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Thursday activated a Level-IV emergency response to flooding in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
China's National Meteorological Centre on Wednesday renewed a yellow alert, the third highest, for sandstorms in several areas across the country said to be the "most severe" of this year.
India has maintained a steady relationship with Russia, Iran and Afghanistan as well as enhanced tieups in the name of democratic solidarity in the form of the Quad comprising India, Australia, Japan and the United States.
Beijing has closed the border citing the new year celebration as the Chinese new year will begin on January 22 and will be celebrated till February 5.
Japanese Chief of Staff of the JASDF, Izutsu Shunji, put it plainly, "Japan and India are in a special strategic global partnership relationship." When viewed alongside enhanced US support towards Japan's military wherewithal, the signing of Japan's RAA with UK (earlier signed with Australia) which allows both countries to deploy forces on each other's soil, the visible presence of Indian fighter planes in Japan is loaded with portents of immense concern as far as Beijing is concerned
Coming as the statement does in the aftermath of a Pentagon report which explicitly said that US officials had been “warned” by Beijing not to interfere in the Sino-Indian relationship, the pattern is clear.
