Tag: Ladakh

China using covid-19 pandemic to become world’s leading superpower: Veteran journalist
14Jul By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
China

China using covid-19 pandemic to become world’s leading superpower: Veteran journalist

Veteran Swedish journalist and Myanmar analyst Bertil Lintner has said that while the rest of the world is preoccupied with the Covid-19 outbreak, China is “taking advantage” of the chaos in the Indo-Pacific region with a new security law in Hong Kong, border clashes with India, confrontations in the South China Sea, and by using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to become world’s leading superpower.In an interview, Lintner, also the author of several books on Myanmar shared his perspective on Beijing’s ambitions and what they mean for conflict and development in the region.He said that it is now “obvious that China is taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic”.“While the rest of the world is preoccupied with its own, internal problems, China is flexing its muscles in the Indo-Pacific reg
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Xi Jinping laughed off threats of economic retaliation for Ladakh, now TikTok faces $6 bn loss: US strategist
14Jul By Nectar GanNo Comments
Politics

Xi Jinping laughed off threats of economic retaliation for Ladakh, now TikTok faces $6 bn loss: US strategist

According to reports, TikTok's mother company, China-based ByteDance, could face a loss of $6 Billion following Indian government's decision to ban 59 Chinese apps including hugely popular TikTok.As per China’s Caixinglobal.com, the amount is likely more than the combined losses for all the other Chinese apps banned by India.Following the reports, U.S. Strategist and Military Historian Edward N Luttwak in a social media post called out the naiveté of Chinese President Xi Jinping for thinking there will be no economic retaliation from India for its intrusion into the Indian Territory in Ladakh.“In Beijing, Xi Jinping's minions laughed off threats of economic retaliation for the Ladakh attack: "India is very poor, who cares?" Yesterday the owner of Tik Tok the most profitable of the 58 Chine
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Indians demand ban on Chinese apps after 20 Indian soldiers killed in Galwan valley stand-off
9Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Indians demand ban on Chinese apps after 20 Indian soldiers killed in Galwan valley stand-off

Angry over the killing of 20 Indian soldiers in a stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops on June 15, Indian citizens are now demanding a complete ban on Chinese apps in the country – a move which has already led to a dip in popularity of famous Chinese apps.Popular Chinese apps like TikTok, PUBG, Bigo Live, Helo and Likee have already shown dip in download after the cross border tension at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh region."I believe, we the citizens of India should launch a campaign to completely boycott China and everything even remotely associated with it," Abhishek Yadav, a medical student in New Delhi said.He added: "Their army is unprofessional and businessmen unscrupulous. Their telecom players have been drawing billions by duping innocent people. Their key obje
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China’s actions in Ladakh part of country’s large-scale military provocations against neighbors: US lawmaker
9Jul By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
China

China’s actions in Ladakh part of country’s large-scale military provocations against neighbors: US lawmaker

US lawmaker Ted Yoho has said that China's aggression in eastern Ladakh is part of its large-scale military provocations against its neighbors and the US will not stand for “unprovoked, premeditated military action” for intimidating peaceful nations into submission.“China's actions towards India fall in line with a larger trend of the Communist Party of China using the confusion of the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover to launch large scale military provocations against its neighbours in the region, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam,” Yoho said.He asserted that now is the time for the world to come together and tell China that enough is enough.In a tweet, the Republican lawmaker said that the US will not stand for “unprovoked, premeditated military action for the purpose of antagonising
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China’s aggressive expansion of territorial claims may provoke future clash with US
8Jul By Nectar GanNo Comments
Conflict

China’s aggressive expansion of territorial claims may provoke future clash with US

By pressing its territorial claims aggressively from the Himalayas to the South China Sea, China may be raising possibilities of additional deadly clashes with the United States in the near future.China's military encroached upon its neighbours' territories on several fronts throughout the spring and now into summer, Beijing is flexing its military might in ways that have raised alarms across Asia and in Washington.For instance, in the same week of an escalating clash with Indian soldiers in Eastern Ladakh, China sent one of its submarines into the waters near Japan. Chinese fighter jets and at least one bomber buzzed Taiwan's territorial airspace almost daily.China's military assertiveness reflects a growing sense of confidence and capability, but also one of confrontation, particularly w...
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PLA troops are an anxious group, recall Indian officers
8Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

PLA troops are an anxious group, recall Indian officers

Serving and retired Indian Army officers, who have spent a considerable time at the India-Chinese borders have all experienced the same thing – that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers lack motivation, have low pay, and are extremely corrupt.These Indian Army officers were or are posted at India’s eastern border, which it shares with China, including at Nathu La. And, all of these officers had, at multiple times during their posting, engaged in one-to-one confrontations with their Chinese counterparts.According to these officers, the PLA’s men, especially those who are asked to serve at the India-China borders, are not very motivated because of the physical hardship they have to endure and the low pay, which, does not justify the hardship that they have to face.In their interaction
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People of PoK, Gilgit-Baltistan stand with Indian Army in fight against China, says activist
2Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

People of PoK, Gilgit-Baltistan stand with Indian Army in fight against China, says activist

Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza, a political activist from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), who is living in exile in Glasgow, has expressed anger over Chinese aggression at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and has pledged to support the Indian Army.Mirza, who hails from Mirpur in PoK, said, "For 70 years, the people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have been kept separate from India. India is facing a tough time because of China's aggression, which along with Pakistan and Nepal's Communist Party, are playing a dirty game. We will not remain silent and stand shoulder to shoulder with India".He added, "I personally will fight for India and wherever the blood of Indian Army personnel will be spilled, we will also fight against the enemy".After the violent clash between Indian ...
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China tries to pacify kin of unsung PLA soldiers killed in LAC face-off
2Jul By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
China, Opinion

China tries to pacify kin of unsung PLA soldiers killed in LAC face-off

In a failed attempt to please its citizens, China on June 22 attempted to pacify the aggrieved families of the Chinese soldiers killed in clashes with Indian troops along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC), without any official recognition from Beijing.Hu Xijin, editor of Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime’s mouthpiece, wrote that “the dead have been treated with the highest respect in the military, and that information will eventually be reported to society at the right time, so that heroes can be honored and remembered as they deserve”.The editorial came two days after a video emerged from China showing that the families of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) personnel were outraged by the fact that unlike Indian soldiers, their martyrs had received no honour and no
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India’s diplomatic, military ties with allies will help countering China, say defense experts
2Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

India’s diplomatic, military ties with allies will help countering China, say defense experts

As tensions continue to escalate between India and China following the brutal face-off at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, defense experts have called on the Indian government to strengthen diplomatic and military ties, especially maritime ties, with its allies.In a webinar organised by the Hudson Institute, an American think-tank, experts discussed about how the recent skirmishes connect to China’s attempts at strengthening its global posture in the wake of its power grabs in Hong Kong, its economic threats toward Australia, and its growing belligerence toward South East Asia, Japan, and Taiwan.Patrick M. Cronin, Asia-Pacific Security Chair of Hudson Institute believes that either China is taking an advantage of Covid-19 pandemic and the upcoming elections in the United States or President Xi is
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Tibet’s independence will secure India’s boundary with China: Tibetan activist
2Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Tibet’s independence will secure India’s boundary with China: Tibetan activist

Amid escalating border tension between India and China along Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, a noted Tibetan author and activist has said that India’s boundary with China will be secured after Tibet’s independence.Tenzin Tsundue said that Tibetans had understood the diabolic designs of China and it was time for New Delhi to reconsider its stand on ‘One China Policy’ as Beijing had totally disregarded the territorial integrity of India.“India needs to change its outlook and policy vis-a-vis Beijing as the latter couldn’t be trusted with its words,” he said.We Tibetans, Tsundue added, have been telling Indians that Tibet’s independence is India’s security but India’s calculations have been different.“India’s policy has been One India policy, One China policy. However, China’s borde
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