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China’s silent debt bomb for Pakistan
By Minhaz Merchant, DNA, Excessive liquidity making its way from Chinese banks to Pakistan does not bode well for its modest economy History shows that when a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio climbs above 200 per cent, a red flag goes up. China’s total debt at $27 trillion is now 277 per read more →
President Trump, meet the Dalai Lama
© Getty Images Dr Lobsang Sangay, 23 May 2017 On his first foreign trip, President Trump has met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the home of Mecca and Medina, the holiest shrines of Islam. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and visited the Western Wall, all that read more →
China’s Rights Abuses Infect UN
Expand Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during a high-level event in the Assembly Hall at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Sophie Richarson, Human Rights Watch, 24 May 2017 “A disease that is spreading – north, south, east, and west.” read more →
Senate confirms Terry Branstad as U.S. Ambassador to China as he commits to “urge Chinese authorities to engage in meaningful and direct dialogue with the Dalai Lama”
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad at his Senate confirmation hearing on May, 2, 2017. International Campaign for Tibet, 22 May 2017 On May 22, 2017, Mr. Terry Branstad was confirmed by the Senate to be the U.S. Ambassador to China. During the confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee read more →
China makes mandatory for nationals to use IDs for air travel
By PTI, DNA, Chinese passengers can now use only their ID cards when taking domestic flights at some airports, while previously they could use a passport to check in, according to a new rule. It remains unknown whether overseas passengers will also face any limitations on identification documents for check-in, read more →
China stocks mixed, concerns over policy tightening linger; Hong Kong up
By Reuters, DNA, China’s main stock indexes were mixed on Tuesday morning, with gains in financials only partially soothing lingering concerns over policy tightening steps. The CSI300 index rose 0.4 percent, to 3,423.26 points at the end of the morning session, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.1 percent, to read more →
Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea
By Louise Watt, Associated Press, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano addresses staff of the foreign affairs department during the flag-raising ceremony Monday, May 22, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines. Cayetano has sought to downplay President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that Chinese President Xi Jinping told read more →
Philippine minister starts damage control after Duterte’s China war remark
MANILA (Reuters) – Talks last week between leaders of China and the Philippines were frank and friendly, with no threats or bullying, Manila’s foreign minister said on Monday, after his president said he was warned of war if he drills for oil in the South China Sea. Foreign Secretary Alan read more →
China’s favoured trade deal in focus at Asian meeting
By Reuters, DNA, Asian trade ministers met on Monday to discuss a proposed free trade deal that is backed by China and has been given new impetus by the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would create a free trade area of more read more →
Hopeful of meeting between Trump, Dalai Lama: Lobsang Sangay
Business Standard. 20 May 2017 Tibet’s Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Thursday expressed hope that U.S. President Donald Trump might continue to support the Tibetan cause and meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Sangay said, “After US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson’s assurance, we Tibetans remain hopeful that President read more →
China claims breakthrough in mining ‘flammable ice’
BBC News , China Methane hydrate, or ‘flammable ice’, is a highly energy-intensive fuel source China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply. Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough. Methane read more →
China’s top diplomat says hopes S.Korea can resolve THAAD issue
By Reuters, DNA, China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, told a visiting South Korean envoy on Friday that he hoped South Korea could respect China’s major interests and concerns and appropriately differences over the THAAD missile system issue. Yang made the comments in a meeting with Seoul’s envoy to China Lee read more →
China and the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
Why Beijing’s attempt to control the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation will not work. The media has repeatedly reported on the reincarnation issue of the 14th Dalai Lama which prompted Lian Xiangmin, director of the Contemporary Research Institute at the Chinese Tibetology Research Center, to weigh in. “The next Dalai Lama should read more →
Richard Gere on how China has damaged his career over his support for Tibet
By Garry Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald Around the time of American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman and Primal Fear – the heady ’80s and ’90s – Richard Gere was just about the biggest star in Hollywood. Dashing, charming, sexy, great hair. But while he has slipped from the spotlight at read more →
What Happens When China Excludes Taiwan from the World Stage
By Dennis P. Halpin, National Intrest, Beijing’s strategy to push Taipei out of any global forum could have wide-ranging consequences. Taiwan, after participating for eight straight years in the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, has suddenly been left out this year with no invitation to attend. The reason read more →