Category: World
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China’s bid to boost market’s confidence in Xi’s leadership fail
At the just concluded third plenum of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, an all-out effort was made to recast the image of President Xi Jinping as a bold reformer—all this to boost public confidence in his leadership. But in the face of investors showing lukewarm response to policies and programmes chalked out at…
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China has tripled number of surveillance satellites in 6 years: US General warnsz
A United States military official recently said that the Communist regime in China has tripled its number of on-orbit satellites that could be used for intelligence or military purposes in recent years. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, while addressing a July 17 talk at the Aspen Institute think tank, said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
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Why China denies building a military base in Tajikistan
Though, China has denied that it is constructing a secret military base in Tajikistan, near areas close to Afghanistan, but reports of The Telegraph, a British daily, which are based on satellite images, maintain that Beijing is constructing the military facility for the last eight years by carving out mountains in the Central Asian nation.…
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CCP censors Premier’s speech for comparing China’s post-pandemic ‘Zombie Economy’ to a sick patient
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to hide the condition of the nation’s post-pandemic struggling economy continue as the CCP has censored Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s speech, where he compared the Asian major’s ailing economy to a “sick patient”. The Epoch Times reported, quoting China analysts, that the Xi Jinping-led Communist regime has censored the…
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Philippines readies for armed conflict amid growing Chinese aggression
China’s actions in relation to sharing the South China Sea with the Philippines so far have been aggressive but nonlethal, yet Manila does not want to risk remaining unalert and inadequately prepared. The Philippines now has decided to modernise its defence system to combat Chinese forces in case the ongoing clashes turn violent. It involved…
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China’s rising hunger for space dominance against the US
A recent report from RAND highlights an increase in China’s willingness to take risks and its expanding strategic operations in space, a bold move designed to contest the US’s supremacy in this field. The report scrutinizes publicly available Chinese defence documents, offering an extensive review of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)’s viewpoints on the escalation…
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Is anti-China sentiment rising in the Philippines?
If tensions rise between any two nations, it is public trust, goodwill and people-to-people engagement that immediately fall victim to strains in relations between those countries. This can be very much seen in the case of ongoing tensions between Beijing and Manila over the South China Sea, triggering fear among ethnic Chinese living in the…
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Hong Kong schoolchildren sung the national anthem too quietly.
Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”. Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it. Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy…
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Let’s endeavor to maintain Hong Kong’s distinction from Mainland China.
Five years ago this month, Hong Kong’s protest movement transfixed the world. Sparked by an ill-considered extradition bill, the protests became an outlet for widespread unease over the Hong Kong government’s ability to preserve the “high degree of autonomy” promised by Beijing after it resumed sovereignty over the city in 1997. As Covid-19 restrictions cut…
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Complexities and Challenges of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Project
In the heart of Central Asia, an ambitious railway project promises to reshape the region’s economic landscape and redefine geopolitical alignments. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway, a proposed 500-kilometer link between Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Andijan in Uzbekistan, has captured the imagination of policymakers and economists alike. However, beneath the veneer of…