China Digs its Heels in – in Ladakh and Elsewhere
In a sign that China-India tensions across the entire 3488-kilometer Line of Actual Control (LAC)…
Bhutan’s Envoy To India Busts China’s Claim of Building Village Inside Bhutan Near Doklam
On Friday, as journalists working for Chinese state-run media claimed that China has established a…
Don’t let the games begin – Calls to boycott the Beijing winter Olympics are growing stronger
ON A RAINY day in central London in April 2008, Laurence Lee, then a presenter…
Mekelle hospitals struggling to care for wounded: ICRC
Red Cross warns of influx of trauma patients and says hospitals are running dangerously low…
Foot in Mouth, Mahathir’s Hate Speech Backfires – Again
It’s time for the former Malaysian PM to just shut and stop scratching for cheap…
Predictability, for a start – What the world wants from Joe Biden
O N THE MORNING after the polls closed last week, America withdrew from the Paris…
China’s irritated trade partners push back on COVID-19 food tests
Canada calls China’s rejection of food products that had positive tests for COVID-19 ‘unjustified trade…
Banyan – An Indo-Pacific club builds heft
W HEN AMERICA , Australia, India and Japan met in 2007 for a “quadrilateral dialogue”…
GROOMING “A LIVING BUDDHA” – CHINA, THE PANCHEN LAMA AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM
Jigme Yeshi ([email protected]) On 20th October 2020, Xinhua which is the official press agency of the…
Historic! Exiled Tibetan Leader Visits White House Amid China’s ‘splittism’ Allegations
In a historic feat, for the first time in six decades, the head of exiled…