China has reportedly dispatched naval vessels to waters near a United States air base in South Korea, as the East Asian power continues to expand its military presence in the contested region. Newsweek has contacted the Chinese defense and foreign ministries for comment by email. Why It Matters South Korea—a U.S. ally that hosts American…
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh pointed out important sectors in India like telecom, pharmaceuticals, and electronics, are critically dependent on Chinese imports. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Congress on Thursday (June 19, 2025) said it has been calling for a detailed debate on China for the last five years and hopes that Prime Minister…
New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over wide-ranging deals that its smaller Pacific neighbour had made with China. Wellington, the Cook Islands’ biggest funder, said it was blindsided by the deals that were struck in February, covering infrastructure, tourism, technology and perhaps crucially, deep-sea mineral exploration. Fresh funding…
Tessa Wong BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter Reuters The Liaoning, seen here in a 2018 file photo, is one of two Chinese aircraft carriers taking part in the drill A Chinese naval drill near Japan has sparked concern from Tokyo, which in recent days lodged a protest with Beijing and made the rare decision to…
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Taiwan is vetting hundreds of thousands of military service members, public school teachers and civil servants in a bid to root out potential homegrown Chinese sympathisers, as Beijing intensifies espionage on the island. Alarm is growing in Taiwan over the extent of China’s infiltration on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims is part of its…
Source: https://russian.news.cn/ The British newspaper The Telegraph caused a stir by reporting that at least three Chinese cargo planes recently took off and disappeared from radar as they approached Iranian airspace. Experts say the nature of the cargo “raises serious questions” given Israel’s ongoing military operation. The flights were operated by Boeing 747 cargo aircraft…
It’s a good time to pitch alternatives to the U.S. dollar , but it pays to be specific. On Wednesday, People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng told attendees of a financial forum in Shanghai that he expected the largely greenback-based global monetary system to become multipolar, ultimately helping to “better safeguard global financial stability”….
Both China and the United States, rivals in the contest for naval dominance in the Pacific, have recently deployed naval hospital ships. USNS Comfort has been conducting a medical mission in Latin America since May 30, according to the U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, CNS Silk Road Ark departed for islands and reefs in the contested South…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials from the New Zealand Foreign Minister’s office said Thursday. New Zealand, which is the smaller Pacific nation’s biggest funder, won’t consider any…