China is pressing ahead with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Myanmar, an aggressive approach that analysts believe is aimed at increasing Beijing's foothold in the region.
US President Donald Trump has paused all aid to Ukraine till as much time as it takes to determine President Volodymyr Zelensky's commitment to ending the war with Russia,
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, in Beijing on Friday.
Twenty-five BRO construction workers are feared trapped under an avalanche at Mana village of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand near the India-China border, officials of the state disaster management department said on Friday.
Forty-two construction workers are feared trapped in an avalanche at Mana village of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand near the India-China border, officials said on Friday.
According to Pomfret, things have changed substantially in China since the last time protests directed at the central government occurred in so many places simultaneously.
Jack Ma, the founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba who until the tech clampdown was China's richest person, has rarely been seen in public since criticising the attitude of Chinese regulators towards tech companies at a summit in Shanghai two years ago, said the Guardian report.
The protests are exceptional because defiance of state authority is rare in China. They are now widespread, for even the filtered flow of information out of the country suggests that thousands may have taken to the streets in cities as far apart as Urumqi, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Nanjing, and Beijing to voice their anger.
For China, India is an adversary that it must suppress prior to challenging the West. After all, India is the US’s close ally in both Asia (Quad) and I2U2 (India, Israel, UAE, and the US) in West Asia.
A heavy police presence has been reported in several cities, and some gatherings were quelled or failed to materialise, reports the BBC.
