An alliance of autocracies? China wants to lead a new world order.
March 31, 2021NY Times 29 March 2021 President Joe Biden wants to forge an “alliance of democracies.” China wants to make clear that it has alliances of its own. Only days after a rancorous encounter with U.S. officials in Alaska, China’s foreign minister joined his Russian counterpart last week to denounce Western read more →
Pressure Grows on Biden to Act on Crisis in Tibet
March 31, 2021Washington Free Beacon 27 March 2021 Activists and former Trump administration officials are urging the Biden administration to respond to the growing human rights crisis in Tibet. Robert Destro, former president Trump’s special envoy for Tibet and assistant secretary of state for human rights and labor, accused the Biden administration read more →
Iran, China sign landmark 25-year cooperation agreement
March 30, 2021India Today 27 March 2021 Foreign ministers from China and Iran, which are both subject to US sanctions, signed a landmark 25-year cooperation agreement on Saturday. “Relations between the two countries have now reached the level of strategic partnership and China seeks to comprehensively improve relations with Iran,” China’s Foreign read more →
UN negotiating with China for unrestricted Xinjiang visit: Secretary General
March 30, 2021WION 28 March 2021 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the UN was in negotiation with China for a visit “without restrictions” to Xinjiang in order to see how Uyghur Muslims were being treated. He declared this in an interview broadcast. At least one million Uyghurs and people read more →
China’s Dam Building Is a Security Risk for India’s Northeast
March 28, 2021By Amitava Mukherjee, The Diplomat. March 27, 2021. If a new hydropower project at the Brahmaputra’s Great Bend comes about, northeastern India will have to go to sleep with the possibility of breach of mammoth-sized water reservoirs over its head at any time. It may not be outlandish to conclude read more →
Why China has pinned its South Asia hopes on this train from Tibet to Nepal
March 28, 2021Amish Raj Mulmi for The Print In ‘All Roads Lead North’, Amish Raj Mulmi writes that the Gyirong–Kathmandu train has been in China-Nepal talks for over a decade. But who will it really help? The Tatopani crossing in the east, similarly, opened up in October 2020 after several months of read more →
A bill in solidarity with six million Tibetans
March 27, 2021Lobsang Sangay Daiji World 25 March 2021 Mar 25 (IANS): The Tibetan Support and Policy Act of 2020 was passed by the US Congress, which is a landmark victory for the people of Tibet and their struggle. This bill acknowledges the struggle of people of Tibet against the brutal and oppressive read more →
US Going To Hold China Accountable To Follow Rules, Says Biden
March 27, 2021NDTV 26 March 2021 Washington: The United States working with its partners and allies is going to hold China accountable to follow the rules, US President Joe Biden has said, as he referred to his recent meeting with leaders from Quad countries involving Australia, India and Japan. “Earlier this month, and read more →
US backs Philippines in standoff over South China Sea reef
March 26, 2021Jim Gomez AP March 23, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The United States said Tuesday it’s backing the Philippines in a new standoff with Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, where Manila has asked a Chinese fishing flotilla to leave a reef. China ignored the call, insisting it owns the offshore read more →
Facebook disrupts China-based hackers it says spied on Uyghur Muslim dissidents and journalists
March 26, 2021Ellen Nakashima Washington Post March 24, 2021 Facebook has disrupted what it says is a China-based espionage campaign against Uyghur Muslim journalists, dissidents and activists living overseas, including in the United States, the social media giant announced Wednesday. The firm said it disrupted the hackers’ operations, which were carried out in read more →