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Border clash with India might cost China dominant power status
21Jul By Grace TsoiNo Comments
Opinion, World

Border clash with India might cost China dominant power status

Experts are of the opinion that if other countries also follow India’s ban on 59 Chinese apps, including the popular video-sharing app TikTok, it could seriously set back China’s ambition to replace the US as the world's dominant technological power."Chinese companies can't really be global if they lose out on India," said Rush Doshi, an expert on Chinese strategy at the Brookings Institution. "And if India can do this, then other countries can do it too.”In July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made comments that the United States was considering a ban on TikTok and other Chinese social-media apps. Australia is also pondering a TikTok ban.The damage may not be limited to India. The Indian ban could have a "cascading effect," says Adam Segal, an expert on Chinese technology firms at the Cou
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Despite wolf warrior diplomacy, China fails to secure ‘expansionism’ beyond Pakistan, N.Korea
20Jul By Nectar GanNo Comments
Politics

Despite wolf warrior diplomacy, China fails to secure ‘expansionism’ beyond Pakistan, N.Korea

A former Lt Governor of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands has said that China appears to have failed to secure its "expansionism" beyond Pakistan and North Korea, “neither of which has a viable alternative”."Yet today as the world stares at the inevitable and punishing price of Covid, the Chinese state has still not let go of its expansionist impulse, and there is renewed pushback even from its 'beneficiaries'. Is the Dragon running out of tricks?" questioned Lt General Bhopinder Singh.Singh said a 'wolf warrior diplomacy' – “an unashamedly expansionist, combative, and possessing hegemonic instincts”, is the new form of statecraft that has made China proactive, as opposed to reactive.He asserted that Chinese President Xi Jinping's advanced his hawkish expansionism through ensnaring proje
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‘Boycott China’ face masks distributed to oppose Chinese goods
20Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

‘Boycott China’ face masks distributed to oppose Chinese goods

After 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a brutal clash between India and China in the Galwan Valley on June 15, there has been a sudden rise in India to boycott Chinese products and services. Now, ‘Boycott China and Chinese products’ face masks are being worn by people in India in protest against China's expansionist policies.In New Delhi, a large number of face masks were distributed in busy market areas to make people aware about boycotting Chinese products. The traders also shouted slogans to boycott Chinese products and laid stress on buying indigenous products.The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), an apex body representing seven crore traders, recently condemned the escalating tensions between the two nations on the border and launched a flagship campaign "Bhartiya Samaan, Ha
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Tibetan community stage protest against China outside Chinese consulate in New York
20Jul By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

Tibetan community stage protest against China outside Chinese consulate in New York

Members of the Tibetan community on July 10 staged a protest against China outside the Chinese Consulate in New York in the aftermath of Galwan valley clash between India and China.Demonstrators raised anti-China slogans and were seen waving the Indian and US flags. They were also seen holding a banner reading ‘Global Movement to Boycott Made in China’.Last week, Indian American, Taiwanese Americans and Tibetans demonstrated against China at the iconic Times Square in New York.The protests come in the aftermath of the deadly border clash in the Himalayas that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and 76 injured. Despite the impact of coronavirus in New York, the demonstration saw dozens of Indian origin Americans standing in solidarity with members of the Tibetan community and Taiwanese Americans.S
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After Galwan backlash, China beats peace drum
20Jul By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

After Galwan backlash, China beats peace drum

It seems China is trying to discover the virtues of peace after its actions in Galwan valley. Recently, Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong, in a videographed message, proffered pastoral nuggets of diplomatic wisdom - trust and cooperation between the two countries, the need to move forward and to build on what has been achieved over the last 70 years. Although that’s fine, he missed the point that the unprecedented violence in Ladakh flows from China’s pattern of behaviour over many decades.If we break down his message, he said, “Suspicion and friction is the wrong path. We need mutual respect, treat each other as equals, be open and inclusive.” The ambassador is clearly putting the onus on India for the “suspicion and friction”. It suits his narrative to overlook China’s behaviour pa
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Experts decry proposed 14th amendment in so-called AJK Interim Act 1974 by Pakistan
20Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia, Opinion

Experts decry proposed 14th amendment in so-called AJK Interim Act 1974 by Pakistan

Political activists and experts have condemned the proposed 14th amendment Bill to the 1974 Interim Constitution of so-called Azad Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) as it further restricts the freedom of expression and opinion among the people in the occupied territory, while strengthening the grip of the Pakistani state over the region even more.In a webinar organized by the Jammu Kashmir International People’s Alliance (JKIPA), Junaid Qureshi, the director of European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) said that Pakistan has over the years been duplicitously projecting itself as a strong votary of the now near-defunct 1948 UN Resolutions that specified a referendum in the entire erstwhile Princely State of J&K.“The reality, though, is that the onus of implementing the first stage
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Indians have done their best to respond China’s aggressive actions: Pompeo on India-China border tension
19Jul By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

Indians have done their best to respond China’s aggressive actions: Pompeo on India-China border tension

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has hit out at China saying they took "incredibly aggressive action" in a recent clash with India over disputed borders.On the night of June 15, Chinese forces and Indian troops got caught in a bloody fight with rods and clubs, leading to the death of 20 Indian soldiers, with some falling to their deaths in the waters of the Galwan River in the western Himalayas.Pompeo said that he has spoken to External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar several time about it."I have spoken with Foreign Minister Jaishankar a number of times about this. The Chinese took incredibly aggressive action. The Indians have done their best to respond to that," Pompeo said.The US Secretary of State also criticized "General Secretary" Xi Jinping and said that the number of both ma...
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Anxiety in China stems from the CPC’s insecurity
17Jul By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

Anxiety in China stems from the CPC’s insecurity

China has handled the COVID-19 outbreak better than most countries. Also, it has quickly cranked up its industries and global public diplomacy to offer testing kits and protective gear to countries across the world, including to its arch-rival, the United States, as well as to India.At the same time, Chinese territorial assertiveness continues without letup in the east, the South China Seas, and along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India. It is almost as if even a disruption like COVID-19 that has the rest of the world scrambling to manage public health, economic growth and political fallout, is insufficient to knock China off its stride.And yet, the Chinese people are anxious. The Communist Party of China (CPC) that governs them, even more so. Anxious that the rest of the world not...
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China pillages Balochistan
17Jul By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

China pillages Balochistan

In 2011, the celebrated Irish journalist Declan Walsh wrote about a 70-year-old conflict about Balochistan, which has been under Pakistani occupation since March 1948. It was a topic that only a few in the West had heard off.Headlined as ‘Pakistan’s Secret Dirty War,’ Walsh, in his piece, lifted the lid on atrocities being committed by the Pakistan Army and its jihadi death squads inside Balochistan.He wrote: “In Balochistan, mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers … The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces are bruised and swollen. F
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Women risk the blasts or sexual assault in Pakistani-held Kashmir
17Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Women risk the blasts or sexual assault in Pakistani-held Kashmir

Ever since the abrogation of Article 370 by the Indian government, cross-border shelling between Pakistan and India has intensified along the Line of Control in Kashmir, sending more families rushing to community bunkers when the alarm sirens ring, particularly on the Pakistani side.But some girls and young women are being left behind by their families — choosing to risk the falling shells rather than face the sexual assault in the cramped bunkers.One of those staying home is Mehnaz, a 25-year-old, who says she will not be going back to a bunker unless things change.When mortars started slamming into her village in the Neelum Valley on the Pakistani-held side in August, Mehnaz and her family fled to a musty bunker owned by her neighbor, she said. Dozens of people were crammed in for hours
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