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The Chinese Embassy in Kuwait is learnt to have embarked on a media drive to improve the country’s image. Towards this end, the Embassy has apparently hired a team of experts who are approaching Kuwaiti journalists to provide ground level feedback about China, its economic policies and its ongoing confrontation with the US on the Taiwan issue. They have also been tasked to interview Kuwaiti officials, local experts and scholars on a variety of issues, including China Arab Cooperation Forum Framework, China-Kuwait bilateral relations, Sino-US tensions and sentiments about China within the local intelligentsia. 2However, Kuwaiti media fraternity is vary of these moves, viewing them as ‘investigations’ rather than surveys. Many journalists were reportedly reluctant to participate in a

If the world thinks the United States and China brought it teeteringly close to a confrontation in early August, think again. Yes, the visit of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives to Taiwan was a trigger point and it angered China. But both sides knew they were merely posturing. China’s concern was something else altogether. The Communist government is perturbed that Pelosi not only touched down on Taipei but also met the one person China never wanted her to meet. Pelosi had a phto-op with the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen. But the real meeting she had was with Mark Liu. Mark Liu may not have the usual high profile like other billionaire-businessmen. But the masters of the defense establishments know him very well. He is the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor

Recently, a case of smuggling of huge quantities of foreign liquor from China has been unearthed in Bangladesh. On July 22, a major consignment from China containing over 2700 cartons of foreign liquor was confiscated on the Chittagong-Dhaka highway in a special operation by Bangladesh (BD) authorities. As per reports, documents had been forged and fabricated insurance papers were produced before the customs authority to manage release of 2760 cartons of liquor. The importers had made a false declaration of importing ‘yarn of polyster’. The huge quantity of liquor arrived in five containers. Had the consignment managed to pass, the revenue loss for the Bangladesh government would have been around 60 to 70 crore Taka. Earlier prohibited items were seized (May, 2022) by BD law enforc

Kathmandu, Nepal: The call centre named Blue Sky Business Solutions located in Tilottama-2 Janakinagar area of Nepal was raided by a team of police deployed from the District Police Office Rupandehi on July 24. According to the police, the Chinese have now made Nepal a transit point for illegal trade and fraudulent crimes. Moreover, the criminal networks of Chinese have also given rise to wildlife smuggling. The police also seized 162 kg of pangolins from the Chinese national who brought it to Nepal from the Congo, Africa via Turkey, Khabarhub reported. According to the police report, on 29 January 2018, Chinese citizens Que Xiorong and Que Liba O were arrested at the Kathmandu airport with the pangolins. Soon after, on 21 August 2018, the police caught three Chinese people in...

Vientiane, Laos:  Laos faces intensifying economic and financial crises and there is likely no way out without some form of a Chinese bailout or debt forgiveness, reported Asia Times.Communists in Vientiane have reason to expect a bailout. Their principal creditor is China, a key ally, and Beijing would surely suffer geopolitically if it allows Laos to default so soon after finishing the USD 5.9 billion railway, a key spur on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) vision for Southeast Asia.“No doubt Laos faces economic and financial difficulties that are tremendous and worryingly severe, but I don’t think China will let Laos default,” says Toshiro Nishizawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Public Policy and a member of a fiscal policy team that advised the

Taipei, Taiwan:   New Taipei City will mobilize more than 1,800 people for its largest-ever disaster response drills on Thursday. Apart from it, the Min An 8 drills were also expected to see 200 vehicles, four helicopters and 20 drones participating in the event, which for the first time, will also include a simulation of disaster relief during war, CNA has reported. On Wednesday, the city's fire department said that there will first be a general indoor theoretical rehearsal during the morning, with the drills taking place in the afternoon, which will include disaster relief during peace and war-time, the mobilization of resources, and the emergency housing of refugees. Russia launched its military operations in Ukraine on February 24. In February, China's Foreign Mini...

Hong Kong: Koo Sze-yiu has built wooden coffins by hand having messages that denounced the communist party of China and he would often use them as props during protests in Hong Kong, The New York Times newspaper reported. On February 4, which was also the opening day of Beijing Winter Olympics, he planned to do the same thing by carrying a homemade wooden coffin to China’s Liaison Office in the city, but national security police raided his apartment and arrested Koo that day before any protest could take place, CNN reported. A Hong Kong court had sentenced him to nine months in jail under the so-called sedition law for planning to protest against the Olympics earlier this year. The friends of the Hong Kong activist feared that he could die in prison even while serving a sh

Beijing, China:  According to Taiwan’s defense ministry, the People’s Liberation Army conducted 555 sorties in the first six months of the year, of which 398 involved combat aircraft, compared with 187 in the same period last year. Defense analysts say the mainland’s forces are developing their ability to control the skies over a longer range as part of preparations for a possible conflict. China sent 29 warplanes into Taiwan’s ADIZ in late June this year, according to media reports, marking the third-largest fly-by in the country this year. The warplanes including 17 fighter jets, six bombers and other supporting aircraft, entered the island’s air defense identification zone, The Star newspaper reported citing the island’s defense ministry. While the fly-bys were general

There is no plausible explanation other than deliberate projection of military power for the recent, unexplained presence of China’s navy vessels in the sea close to the uninhabited Senkaku Islands near Japan. The two countries have a dispute over control of the islands for years now and China refuses arbitration and insists that the islands belong to it. Chinese vessels have now been spotted near the islands, including in the so-called contiguous zone outside Japanese waters, for 81 days in a row, according to the coast guard. Simultaneously, Japan's Defense Ministry said it spotted “at least two Chinese warships” and a supply ship in the Izu Islands, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Tokyo. One of those ships appeared to be the Lhasa, a Type 055 guided-missile des

A spotlight is on East China Sea’s Senkaku islands after recent military action by China to achieve its goal of grabbing the islands. The rocky, uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan and known as the Diaoyus in China, has heightened the tension between the two countries. The  presence of immense deposits of oil and gas under the waters surrounding the islandsis the main reason behind China’s strategy to make territorial claims. Two Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japanese territorial waters close to the Senkaku Islands on July 4. It came aday after a Chinese naval ship was detected there, leaving the Japanese navy furious. Itis not the first time when China has shown its aggressive behaviour. It is 15th time in the last six months when China