Table tennis: Sun Yingsha, Lin Shidong crowned at WTT Champions Macao
China's Sun Yingsha and Lin Shidong got their championship trophies on Sunday at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao 2024.
China's Sun Yingsha and Lin Shidong got their championship trophies on Sunday at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao 2024.
The imposition of US sanctions on Chinese companies for supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme marks another chapter in the complex geopolitical dynamics of South Asia.
Over the past decade and a half, the Chinese techno-authoritarian state has deeply entrenched itself in the day-to-day lives of citizens through the use of highly sophisticated surveillance technology.
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval conveyed to China that peace and tranquility in border areas and respect for the Line of Actual Control (LAC) are essential for normalcy in bilateral relations between the two countries.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday made it clear that India's relations with China cannot become normal until peace and tranquility is restored on the border between the two countries.
Emphasizing that the threat is from the Chinese government, Director Burns said that the new Mission Center will bring a whole-of-Agency response and unify the exceptional work CIA is already doing against "this key rival."
The face-off which lasted for a few hours took place last week, defence sources said, adding that the troops disengaged after the talks between the two local commanders as per existing protocols.
At a media briefing here, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said it was China's provocative behaviour and unilateral attempts by it to alter status quo in contravention of all bilateral agreements that resulted in serious disturbance of peace and tranquility along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh.
But the fertile central plain is both China‘s strength as well as its weakness. China feeds 23 per cent of the world‘s population from 7 per cent of arable land, by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains. But the narrow coastal zone of prosperity also creates a deep social chasm because it profits hugely from maritime trade which does not flow to the rest of China.
The CIA's mission centers integrate key functions of operations and analysis, says former CIA China analyst Rodney Faraon, pointing to other key mission centers like counterterrorism and counterintelligence, the report said.
