China added more than 13,000 new Covid-19 infections with state media reporting a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant. The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, evolves from the...
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Beijing: Seventeen million people in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen began their first full day under lockdown Monday, as a key factory making iPhones closed and restrictions spread across Shanghai and other major cities in an effort to extinguish the biggest-ever threat to the nation’s zero-tolerance Covid strategy....
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China and India have encountered “some setbacks” in recent years which do not serve the fundamental interests of the two countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday as he called for managing boundary differences through consultation, a… As a result of a series of military and diplomatic...
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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, with his Australian counterpart by his side, blamed the violence and standoff at the border in eastern Ladakh on China’s failure to honour written agreements with India. “The situation at the Line Of Actual Control in Ladakh has arisen due to China’s...
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New Delhi: The situation at the Line Of Actual Control in Ladakh has arisen due to China’s disregard in 2020 of written agreements with us to not mass forces at the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. “So, when a large country disregards written commitments, I...
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday reiterated in Parliament that the bridge China is constructing on Pangong Lake is located in areas that have continued to be under China’s illegal occupation since 1962 and that India has never accepted this illegal occupation. Replying to a written question in Lok Sabha, junior minister...
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New Delhi: The account of the Galwan violence in Australian newspaper “The Klaxon” — pieced together by a group of social media researchers — claims the Chinese soldiers who drowned in the Galwan river in June 2020, were in retreat after the clash with Indian troops. The report says...
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New Delhi: The US “wouldn’t endorse” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comment in parliament on India’s foreign policy, the State Department spokesperson has said. Mr Gandhi while criticising the government over a range of issues yesterday had blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for following a flawed policy, both domestic and...
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Landing a fighter on a 500 feet deck of a moving, pitching and rolling aircraft carrier is the most complex of flight operations. With only 10 years of naval aviation under its belt, China has a lot to learn from US Navy and Indian Navy. The Chinese Communist Party...
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China on Thursday said it will work “closely” with India to properly handle the ongoing border tension and strongly criticised the US for saying it was concerned by Beijing’s attempts to coerce its neighbours including India. The Chinese defence ministry added that the border problem is a bilateral matter...
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