Category: Feature
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How much longer can China keep up its zero-Covid strategy?
Desperate residents in China’s western Xi’an city are running out of food after they were barred from grocery shopping in a fierce lockdown. In the southern province of Guangxi, people who broke Covid laws were recently publicly shamed by being paraded through the streets in Hazmat suits with placards round their necks. The rest of…
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Uttarakhand’s First Bio-diversity Gallery Inaugurated In Haldwani
Uttarakhand’s first bio-diversity gallery, that aims to showcase lesser known aspects of the hill state’s rich bio-diversity, was inaugurated in Haldwani on Sunday with funding from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. Blessed with all three agro climatic zones – tropical, temperate and alpine – and also being at the confluence of the Western and Eastern…
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Will China’s Railway in Laos Help Bolster Its ‘Soft Power’?
If “soft power” refers to the power of attraction, then a country needs connectivity channels through which it can attract foreign audiences. These channels can be sociocultural, political, ideological, or economic, the latter being perhaps the most tangible. In early December, the government of Laos inaugurated the Laos-China Railway following the arrival in Vientiane of…
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‘We’ll get it done. Come hell, high water or Covid’: Can 2022 be a super year for nature?
It was supposed to be a “super year for nature”: 2020 was going to be “a major opportunity to bring nature back from the brink”. But then the coronavirus pandemic set in and long-held plans to tackle the environmental crisis, kickstarted at Davos in January, where the financial elite underscored the risks of global heating…
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Hong Kong ‘patriots’ election casts doubt over democracy as city enters new era
Show caption An overhaul of the electoral system has gutted the partial democracy Hong Kong once had and made it effectively impossible for the opposition to win a majority. Photograph: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Hong Kong Hong Kong ‘patriots’ election casts doubt over democracy as city enters new era Critics describe Sunday’s vote as ‘illegitimate’ as…
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China aims to dominate East and South China Sea: USA report
Washington, US: According to the new Congressional Research Service report in the US, Chinese activities depicts that the country is planning to dominate in East China Sea and South China Sea. “China’s approach to the SCS and ECS is termed usually termed by the observers as a ‘salami-slicing’ strategy that employs a series of incremental…
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CHINESE MANIPULATION OF WORLD BANK’S EASE OF BUSINESS RANKING AND CONSEUENCES
In its bid to become the unambiguous hegemon by 2049, China is using all immoral andunethical tactics to control the international institutions including UN, World Bank, IMF,WHO etc. In a recent attempt, the Chinese has manipulated the World Bank Doing BusinessRanking and influenced the administrators of international financial institutions to complytowards Chinese sensibilities which has…
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Corruption unearthed in infrastructure projects in Sudan
Fu Hong Construction, Roads and Bridges Enterprises is a recent addition tothe long list of Chinese companies involved in corruption in foreign countries. Thecompany, owned by Chinese couple viz., Fu Hong and Ji Hong (wife), is based out ofSobha area of capital city of Khartoum, Sudan. In the past, the company has closelyworked with security…
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China trying to merge Mongolia
Mongolians are not being allowed to use their local language, they are being banned to use local language and patriotism classes. Since 2020, China’s policy to forcibly impose Mandarin Chinese language education has sparked protests in Inner Mongolia including weeks of class boycotts and street protests as ethnic Mongolians denounced the process as “cultural genocide.”…
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Is China in talks with the Taliban for Bagram Airbase?
Nikki Haley, a former United States Ambassador to United Nations gave an interview to Fox News on Wednesday in which she warned that China might be planning a move to take over the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. There are also looming concerns that through Afghanistan, China might design to use Pakistan against India.…