Tag: China

‘India will not reduce troops unless China initiates process’: Rajnath Singh on Ladakh row
22Jan By Yusara AskariNo Comments

‘India will not reduce troops unless China initiates process’: Rajnath Singh on Ladakh row

Reiterating India’s stance on the eastern Ladakh standoff, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the country will not reduce the number of troops unless China initiates the processHe also said India is developing infrastructure in border areas at a "very fast rate", adding China has objected to some of the projects."Reduction in the number of troops won't happen. India won't reduce troops deployment unless China initiates the process," he said in an interview.When asked about the dialogue process with China on the row, Singh said, "There is no deadline when it comes to matter like the ongoing standoff. You can't fix a date.""We are confident of finding a solution through talks," he said.About a news report that China was constructing a village in Arunachal Pradesh, the defence
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US: Biden’s pick for Pentagon chief says Pak action against LeT, JeM ‘incomplete’
20Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments

US: Biden’s pick for Pentagon chief says Pak action against LeT, JeM ‘incomplete’

United States president-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Pentagon, Gen (retired) Lloyd Austin, has said that Pakistan’s actions against anti-India terror groups such as LeT and JeM are “incomplete” and that China’s “increasingly aggressive actions” across the Indo-Pacific are a key concern for the country.Speaking at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Austin also said that if he is confirmed for the post, he will work to continue elevating the defence partnership with India and work to “further operationalise India’s ‘Major Defense Partner’ status”.Austin, 67, would be the first African American to run the department of defence but needs to be granted a waiver by both the House of Representatives and the Senate because the National Security Act requires the secretary o
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“China’s Sinopharm vaccine most unsafe in the world with 73 side effects”
18Jan By Joanne SerriehNo Comments

“China’s Sinopharm vaccine most unsafe in the world with 73 side effects”

A Chinese doctor and a vaccine expert, Dr Tao Lina, has claimed that the country’s Sinopharm vaccine for coronavirus is “the most unsafe in the world” with 73 side effects.Taking to social media, Dr Tao pointed out to his 4.8 million social media followers that the jab developed by Beijing's state-run drugmaker Sinopharm had 73 side effects. He stated that after he read the manual of the vaccine, "I took in a long cold breath, and counted the conditions listed in the 'adverse reactions' column."The vaccine expert found that in addition to pain in the injection site and headache, there were severe side effects listed that were "more likely to occur," such as high blood pressure, loss of vision, loss of taste, delayed menstruation, and urinary incontinence.He said that the 73 adverse reactio
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China: People scramble to get shots of unproven vaccine
18Jan By Joanne SerriehNo Comments

China: People scramble to get shots of unproven vaccine

After a spate of quality scandals in its coronavirus vaccine, China is again in the spotlight for making its unproven vaccine candidate widely available to demonstrate their safety and effectiveness.As per media reports, even though China’s vaccine candidates have not formally been proved safe or effective, officials have been injecting them into thousands of people across the country, ostensibly under an emergency-use policy. Government officials and top pharmaceutical executives speak proudly of being inoculated.Ethan Zhang, a resident of Beijing, took a flight to Yiwu in eastern China just to get a shot of the vaccine. He needed to get back to work. Work was in Ivory Coast, however, and since January the global coronavirus outbreak had stranded the 26-year-old translator in mainland Chi
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US led the world in exposing ‘horrific’ abuses in Xinjiang: Pompeo
17Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments

US led the world in exposing ‘horrific’ abuses in Xinjiang: Pompeo

The outgoing US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Saturday said that the United States led the world in exposing the “horrific” rights abuses in Xinjiang province of China and imposed sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party’s officials.Taking to Twitter, Pompeo lauded America’s efforts in bringing up the Uyghur issue to the forefront, saying America halted imports of products made with forced labour and gave Uyghur women a platform to tell the world about their families who were disappeared by the Chinese Communist Party.“We led the world in exposing the horrific abuses in Xinjiang. Imposed sanctions on CCP officials, halted imports of products made with forced labor, and so much more. When the world averts its eyes, America speaks up, and acts,” Pompeo tweeted.“We also gave courageous
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Tibetans accuse China of sabotaging elections
15Jan By Nectar GanNo Comments

Tibetans accuse China of sabotaging elections

China has been accused of trying to sabotage elections to the Tibetan government in exile and Tibetan Parliament held earlier in January with the Tibetan community saying that the biggest disruption to the process was witnessed in Nepal where the Chinese Communist Party has made inroads over the years.The Tibetan community has claimed that while the elections went on smoothly in India, Russia and other countries, there is evidence that Chinese officials tried to watch the voting process and note the names of those who voted in certain countries.“The biggest disruption to the elections happened in Nepal, after a Chinese high-level delegation visited the Himalayan country on December 27, to resolve the schism between the different factions of the Nepal Communist Party, said people aware of t
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US President Trump amends order to address threat from securities investment in Chinese military companies
15Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments

US President Trump amends order to address threat from securities investment in Chinese military companies

United States President Donald Trump amended an executive order on Wednesday to address the threat from securities investments that finance Chinese military companies.“Effective at 11:59 pm eastern standard time on November 11, 2021 [04:59 GMT on November 12], possession of any such securities by a United States person is prohibited,” stated the executive order, published on Thursday, according to a White House release.According to the order, investors are permitted to conduct any transaction that will allow them to divest of securities in firms that Washington believes have links to the Chinese military.The new order amends a preceding directive published in November last year that merely prohibited investors from purchasing securities in these firms after November 11, 2021.Earlier, an ex
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India, China in constant communication for next round of senior commanders meeting: MEA
14Jan By Yusara AskariNo Comments

India, China in constant communication for next round of senior commanders meeting: MEA

Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that it is maintaining close communication with China through diplomatic and military channels with the objective of ensuring complete disengagement in all friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that the two sides are in constant communication through diplomatic and military channels for holding the next round of senior commanders meeting.“India and China continue to maintain close communication through diplomatic and military channels with the objective of ensuring complete disengagement in all friction points along the LAC in the western sector and for full restoration of peace and tranquillity,” he said.Srivastava said the last round of Working Mechanism for Con
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“Beautiful Sight”: China mocks US as protestors break into US Capitol
7Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments

“Beautiful Sight”: China mocks US as protestors break into US Capitol

After supporters of US President Donald Trump broke into the US Capitol, Beijing took to social media on Thursday to criticise the "sharp contrast" between Washington's response to the chaos and the 2019 Hong Kong anti-government protests.China’s mouthpiece Global Times tweeted side-by-side photo comparisons of Hong Kong protesters occupying the city's Legislative Council Complex in July 2019 with Wednesday's Washington riots.The latter saw Trump fans invade the US Capitol to protest the election defeat, taking selfies, scuffling with security and ransacking parts of the building."@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold'," the Global Times said in the tweet, referring to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's June 2019 comment about Hong Kong's mass
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China threatens to revoke licence of lawyer who helped HK activist
5Jan By Joanne SerriehNo Comments

China threatens to revoke licence of lawyer who helped HK activist

Authorities in China’s Sichuan province has informed a mainland lawyer, who helped one of the 10 Hong Kong activists for crossing the border, that his licence could be revoked for 'making inappropriate remarks on the internet'.This is seen as yet another instance of China's growing crackdown on dissent in the country after it imposed the draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong.According to an official statement, Lu Siwei was told by the Department of Justice in Sichuan province that he had three days to request a hearing before authorities would make a final decision on his professional qualification.If the department does not hear from him in that deadline, the lawyer will be regarded as having given up his rights, according to media reports.In their statement, the Department of Just
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