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.
Jukka Jalonen, head of Finland's ice hockey team, said on Sunday that China is violating the human rights of one of his star players by keeping him in isolation despite team doctors clearing him to play, Daily Mail reported.
''Bharat Mata ki Jai,'' some of the protestors, including women, shouted as they stepped on the Chinese flags and burnt them. They demanded that China leave Tibet while appealing to the international community to stand up against Beijing.
The organisers reported 24 new Covid-19 cases among Games-related personnel on January 31, of which 16 were athletes. Many athletes have been ruled out of the Feb. 4-20 Games after testing positive on arrival at the airport while others who are asymptomatic are isolating.
The government in Beijing, helmed by President Xi Jinping, has tightened the screws over the past year, leading to a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, the closure of independent news outlets, the calculated removal of monuments to dissent, and an election in which people’s participation was pathetically poor. Small wonder the thoroughly contrived tryst with democracy is deemed laughable by many.
The latest Covid-19 resurgence in China has spread to 21 provincial-level regions, where new locally transmitted cases or asymptomatic carriers were reported in the past few days, according to the National Health Commission (NHC).
