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Taipei, Taiwan: China is trying to control Taiwan. Amid the stress between China and Taiwan the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called developed countries to maintain peace in Taiwan strait. Tsai made the appeal in an online interview with Japanese monthly magazine Bungei Shunju, reported NHK World. She said Japan, the United States and other nations discussing the Taiwan Strait and expressing concern sends a signal to China, which has been continuing its military buildup. Tsai also said that increasing collaboration among Taiwan and its partners will make Beijing exercise restraint in its policy-making, including military activities, reported NHK World. Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy of almost 24 million people located off the southeastern coast of ...

Myanmar targets higher vaccinations as Covid-19 cases soar Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) pray in front of bodies of people who died from the Covid-19 coronavirus during their funeral at a cemetery in Mandalay on July 14, 2021. (AFP) Myanmar's military-controlled health ministry expects half of the population to be vaccinated against Covid-19 this year, state media reported on Tuesday, a day after authorities announced a record tally of coronavirus deaths. The inoculation target comes as the Southeast Asian nation's effort to contain an exponential rise in infections has been thrown into chaos by the turmoil since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported that only ab...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte unabashedly renewed his threat to kill drug dealers in his final state of the nation speech on Monday, while defending his nonconfrontational approach in the country’s territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. Duterte, 76, who won a six-year presidential term in 2016, is winding down his often-tumultuous presidency amid a raging pandemic, a battered economy and a legacy overshadowed by his deadly campaign against illegal drugs that has set off complaints of mass murder before the International Criminal Court. While many expected him to focus on ways to combat the coronavirus, which has devastated the economy and worsened hunger and poverty, Duterte instead devoted most of a rambling, nearly three-hour televised

India deploys warships in S. China Sea as part of 'Act East' policy FILE PHOTO: Chinese navy personnel moor the Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata at Qingdao Port for the 70th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, in Qingdao, China, April 21, 2019. (Reuters) NEW DELHI: India is sending a naval task force to the South China Sea this month to expand security ties with friendly countries, officials said on Wednesday, signalling its intent to play a bigger role in regional efforts to counter China. The Indian military has been traditionally wary of antagonising China but the mood has hardened following clashes between troops on the disputed land border last year. The government has since drawn closer to the United States in efforts to push back ...

BEIJING (AP) — China has appointed a new military commander in restive Xinjiang where authorities have locked up more than a million members of Muslim minorities in what they call a bid to curb terrorism and radicalism. Lt. Gen. Wang Haijiang will oversee a massive military presence in the sprawling northwestern region that borders on several unstable Central Asian states, along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, from which U.S. troops are withdrawing. Like Xinjiang’s hardline Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo, Wang previously served in Tibet, which also hosts large numbers of troops to suppress anti-government sentiment among the native Tibetan population and guard the disputed border with India, where the two nations had a deadly clash last year. Wang’s unannounced appointment was reveal

Covid returns to China's Wuhan as global Delta variant woes mount Long believed to have beat the worst of the pandemic, cities across China has been forced to reintroduce lockdowns and begin mass-testing millions. BEIJING: Authorities in China's Wuhan said Tuesday they would test the city's entire population for Covid-19, as the virus returned to the place where it first emerged and the highly contagious Delta variant drove tightening lockdowns worldwide. A resurgent virus has returned with a vengeance, buoyed by stalling vaccination rates and deadly new mutations even in places which had long touted their successes in overcoming the worst of the pandemic. China brought domestic cases down to virtually zero after the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, allowing the economy to rebound a...