Tag: China

New York: Calling out Pakistan for its support for terrorism and China for providing terrorists cover against sanctions, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has unveiled an eight-point plan against the global scourge. Before his speech on Tuesday at a Security Council ministerial meeting, Tunisia’s Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi, who presided, issued a consensus statement […]

Washington: China imposed sanctions on nearly 30 former Trump administration officials moments after they left office on Wednesday. In a statement released just minutes after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, Beijing slapped travel bans and business restrictions on Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and UN ambassador, Kelly Craft. Others […]

New Delhi: After a gap of over two-and-half months, India and China on Sunday held the ninth round of military talks specifically focusing on ways to move forward on the long-negotiated disengagement process in eastern Ladakh as thousands of their troops remained deployed at friction points under freezing conditions. The Corps Commander-level meeting began at […]

New Delhi: Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed at Naku La in North Sikkim last week with many injuries reported, said a government source. The situation is said to be under control though as of now. Naku La, incidentally, was one of the original face-off sites, along with Pangong Tso, Galwan, Gogra, Hot Springs, in early-May […]

Beijing: China on Friday said the border issue with India should not be linked with bilateral ties, even as it welcomed External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s remarks on the significance their ties and the importance New Delhi attached to relations with Beijing. “I have noted his remarks,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a […]

Kathmandu: China will provide 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Nepal on a grant basis, officials here said on Saturday, supplying the first batch of vaccine aid for the Himalayan nation. During a telephonic conversation with his Nepali counterpart Pradeep Gyawali on Friday evening, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured that China would accord priority […]

Beijing: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has unveiled its flagship smartphone “Mi 11” in the global market through a virtual event that features Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform, making it one of the first smartphones to come with this processor. The smartphone comes in two storage variants — 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB at Euro 749 and […]

New Delhi: India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement of troops from the north and south banks of the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Rajya Sabha today. Under the agreement, Singh said both sides will cease their forward deployments in a phased, coordinated and verified manner in […]

Beijing: China has banned BBC World News from airing in China, one week after threatening to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting license for China’s state-owned CGTN. The National Radio and Television Administration said in a statement dated midnight Friday that BBC World News coverage of China had violated requirements that news […]

Beijing: China’s Hubei Province reported one confirmed Covid-19 case and one asymptomatic carrier, both imported from Pakistan, on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said on Thursday. The patient, who arrived at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport from Islamabad on Tuesday, was quarantined and later diagnosed as a confirmed Covid-19 case. Currently, the patient is undergoing treatment […]

Beijing: Five Chinese military officers and soldiers were killed in last year’s Galwan Valley clash in eastern Ladakh with the Indian Army, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officially acknowledged for the first time on Friday. Five Chinese frontier officers and soldiers stationed in the Karakoram Mountains have been recognised by the Central Military Commission of […]

New Delhi: Indian and Chinese military dialogue to de-escalate tension at the Line of Actual Control started on Saturday morning. The 10th round of Corps Commander meeting started at 10 a.m. at Moldo on Chinese side. Indian military delegation is led by Lieutenant General P.G.K. Menon, Commander of 14 Corps based in Leh. The Corps […]

New Delhi: China has a habit of creeping forward, making very small incremental moves, to achieve its objectives, said Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane, adding that this strategy will not work with India. Addressing a webinar organised by the Vivekananda International Foundation, a public policy think-tank, Naravane said, “China is in the habit […]

Beijing: President Xi Jinping on Thursday declared that China has scored a “complete victory” in its fight against poverty by lifting over 770 million people out of it in the last four decades, calling it another “miracle” created by the country that will go down in history. Absolute poverty has been eradicated in the world’s […]

New Delhi: To counter expansionist China’s habit of creeping forward by making small incremental moves, the Indian Army has planned mountaineering expeditions and research studies at high-altitude areas in the northern borders of the country. The Army is also coming up with a skiing expedition — ARMEX-21 — covering the distance from the Karakoram Pass […]