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China issues warning for new ransomware virus
By AFP, Geo.tv, BEIJING: China has urged Windows users to protect themselves against a new ransomware virus similar to the WannaCry bug that wreaked havoc worldwide last week. “UIWIX” encrypts and renames files through a bug in the Windows operating system, China´s National Computer Virus Emergency Response read more →
Tibetans mark 22nd anniversary of 11th Panchen Lama’s abduction
MYSURU: Hundreds of Tibetans took out a peaceful rally through the main streets of the city, demanding justice for Panchen Lama on Wednesday. Tibetan Women’s Association and Tibetan Youth Congress organizations from Bylakuppe, Hunsur and Kollegal, assembled near the Mysuru Palace north gate. Tenzin Dolma, president of the Regional Tibetan read more →
Beijing’s hard and soft touch
The Pioneer, 17 May 2017 China’s history is replete with threats and territorial demands. Sino-Indian talks on border disputes have one theme: ‘What is with us now is ours’ Notwithstanding several Indian liberal thinkers’ strong advocacy for India to endorse China’s magnum opus, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in view read more →
Can China Afford Its Belt and Road?
Christopher Balding, Bloomberg News China’s just-completed conference touting its Belt and Road initiative certainly looked like a triumph, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing the piano and Chinese leaders announcing a string of potential deals and massive financial pledges. Underneath all the heady talk about China positioning itself at the heart read more →
Nepalis don’t share Indian ambivalence towards China
By Akhilesh Upadhyay, Kathmandu, Indian Express, While India’s stated (and strong) opposition to BRI is that CPEC runs through the disputed Kashmir region, its nervousness runs deeper than that. Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a news conference at the end of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May read more →
China challenges India to explain ‘meaningful dialogue’ on Belt and Road Initiative, says doors open for New Delhi to join project
By Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, China has asked India to clarify its call for a “meaningful dialogue” on the Belt and Road Initiative while noting that the doors will be always be open for New Delhi to join the project. Leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum wave as they read more →
Philippines, China vow closer ties, management of disputes
By The Associated Press, ABC, Manila, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographers prior to their bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, May 15, 2017. read more →
Tibetan Medicine Sowa-Rigpa Lures Patients Seeking Drug-Free Cures
By AFP Relax news, News18, A staff member of Tibetan medical practitioner Yeshi Dhonden’s Tibetan Herbal Clinic packs traditional Tibetan medicine to send to patients by courier in the Indian town of Dharamsala. (Photo courtesy: AFP Relaxnews/ Prakash SINGH) Before dawn in the Indian Himalayas, scores of patients clutching small read more →
EU backs away from trade statement in blow to China’s ‘modern Silk Road’ plan
Member states wary of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative without guarantees on transparency, sustainability and tendering process. The EU has dealt a blow to Chinese president Xi Jinping’s bid to lead a global infrastructure revolution, after its members refused to endorse part of the multibillion-dollar plan because it did read more →
The world must unite like a ‘flock of geese’, says China’s Xi Jinping
By Tom Phillips, President urges the world to cooperate, as Germany warns it could refuse to sign up to the Belt and Road initiative unless free tenders are guaranteed. Xi is attempting to contrast himself with the US president Donald Trump. Photograph: POOL/Reuters Chinese president Xi Jinping has made his read more →
Power, Money, and Fake News in China
Written by Graham Bond, China Policy Institute In Anglophone circles, 2016 was the year that ‘fake news’ became real, at least in terms of raw political impact. Questionable figures painted on the side of the Brexit Battle Bus were blamed for leading the UK out of the European Union. Donald read more →
The Latest: 29,000 Chinese institutions hit by cyberattack
By The Associated Press, ABC News, The latest on the global extortion cyberattack that hit dozens of countries on Friday (all times local): 4:50 a.m. Chinese state media say more than 29,000 institutions across China have been infected by the global “ransomware” cyberattack. Xinhua News Agency reports that by Saturday read more →
China on spying spree against Australia, defence secretary says
Reuters, 12 May 2017 China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Canberra’s most senior defence department official said on Friday, in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner. Chinese spying on Australia has been the subject of much speculation by analysts but senior government officials have largely steered read more →
China anxious for India to endorse the OBOR initiative
12 May 2017 – Hindustan Times China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is a grand Chinese vision that seeks to link production centres in China with markets and natural resource centres around the world through a China-built communications artery. Beijing is keen to have India come aboard this new read more →
Tibetans don’t see China as enemy: Dalai Lama
Lalit Mohan, Tribune News Service Dharamsala, May 10: “Tibetans don’t see China as enemy but as a friend. We have not gathered here against China but for truth and justice. We consider China as our friend and strongly believe in principle of give and take and mutual benefit,” said the read more →