Category: China

In March 2024, India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, articulated, in a joint statement during his visit to Manila, India’s full support for the Philippines in upholding its national sovereignty. Mr. Jaishankar’s comment was made amid the ongoing South China or West Philippine Sea dispute between Manila and Beijing which witnessed, arguably, its most intense and volatile year in…

A spokesperson for the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) refuted the U.S.’s ‘debt trap’ claim on Thursday, saying no partner countries say that China has led them into a “debt trap,” and Western-dominated commercial creditors and multilateral financial institutions account for a big chunk of the debt held by developing countries. “China attaches great…

After 11 days in China, during which time he was granted an audience with Xi Jinping, its supreme leader, Ma Ying-jeou came back to Taiwan this month with a message. The island’s former president, posting on Facebook, wrote that Mr Xi had “extended an olive branch to us”. Mr Ma hoped that Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s next president,…

A debt crisis to the tune of trillions has affected the livelihoods of many Chinese nationals as they scramble to pay their debts. Beijing, on the other hand, is punishing defaulters in questionable ways No insurance, no vacations: How China is punishing people who can’t repay debtsHousehold debt in China has surged by 50% in…

Germany’s economy is very dependent on China, so expectations were low that Chancellor Olaf Scholz would place human rights concerns prominently on the agenda of his April 13-16 trip to China. But his apparent unwillingness to publicly say the words “human rights” was deeply disappointing. The Chinese government’s long-egregious human rights record has become dramatically more repressive…

A Taiwanese civil society organization recently exposed Beijing’s manipulative tactics to spread misinformation through TikTok for its vested interest. Yu Chih-hao, co-director of the Taiwanese Information Environment Research Center (IORG), informed that his organization analyzed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence and impact on Taiwan recently. He claimed that CCP was creating an “alternative worldview”…

North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said on Tuesday.The state’s growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine equipment imported from China with domestically developed software, threatens…

HONG KONG — Zhejiang Dahua Technology, a major Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer, has sold its fully owned subsidiary in the U.S., virtually divesting from the country after it was slapped with a series of sanctions over the years. Dahua disclosed in its latest annual report, published Monday evening, that the group had completed the disposal…