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Bullhorns and water cannons: China ships wall off South China Sea

The mounting Chinese military presence in waters that were long dominated by the US fleet is sharpening the possibility of a showdown between superpowers

Had goosebumps watching Tricolour go up: Bronze medalist rower Babu Lal

Babu Lal, who started rowing just two years ago, relived the range of emotions that he went through while standing on the podium to receive his medal

OCA takes up visa denial matter with China, Anurag Thakur cancels visit

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday cancelled his upcoming visit to Hangzhou for the Asian Games as a mark of protest against China's decision to deny visas to three Indian wushu players from Arunachal Pradesh while the Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) is actively pursuing the matter with the Chinese authorities. The three female wushu players from Arunachal Pradesh -- Nyeman Wangsu, Onilu Tega and Mepung Lamgu -- have been denied accreditation, which also works as visa, for the Asian Games that officially gets underway on Saturday. The three players were scheduled to fly out of India on Thursday night with eight other members of the wushu contingent but were forced to stay back without proper clearance as their accreditation could not be downloaded. Wushu is a form of martial art, believed to have originated in China. "Union Minister for I&B and Youth Affairs & Sports @ianuragthakur cancels visit to China for the Asian Games as India strongly protests China's targeted and .

Asian Games 2023: India cites visa foul play as China bars three athletes

Sports min cancels Hangzhou visit; OCA takes up issue with Chinese authorities

A holistic approach can grab space vacated by China in textile sector: SIMA

Textile and clothing sectors must have a holistic approach with a long-term vision to seize the opportunity in the global market, industry officials said on Saturday. Textiles and clothing industries are the second largest employment provider after agriculture generating Rs 30,000 crore as Goods and Services Tax revenue and USD 44 billion foreign exchange earnings, officials of Southern India Mills' Association said. The industries have been facing challenges in the recent past mainly due to structural issues on the raw material front, high cost of production, scale of operation among others, SIMA Chairman S K Sundararaman said. The Association would strive to address structural issues and enhance global competitiveness, he said. According to association officials, the NDA government has been giving major thrust for enhancing the global competitiveness of the textiles and clothing industry and addressed several issues. "However, the policy pitfalls in certain areas and delay in ..

Russia, US, China have built new facilities, at nuclear test sites: Report

This comes at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades

Chinese govt sentences famed Uyghur scholar to life in prison: Foundation

A prominent Uyghur scholar specialising in the study of her people's folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a US-based foundation that works on human rights cases in China. Rahile Dawut was convicted on charges of endangering state security in December 2018 in a secret trial, the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said in a statement Thursday. Dawut appealed but her conviction was upheld, the foundation said. The sentencing of Professor Rahile Dawut to life in prison is a cruel tragedy, a great loss for the Uyghur people, and for all who treasure academic freedom, John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, said in a statement. Dawut was a professor at Xinjiang University and founder of the school's Ethnic Minorities Folklore Research Centre. She disappeared in late 2017 amid a brutal government crackdown aimed at the Uyghurs, a Turkic, predominately Muslim ethnicity native to China's northwest Xinjiang region. For years, her ex

China an existential threat to US, preparing for war: Nikki Haley

Describing China as an "existential threat" to the US and the world, Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley has claimed Beijing is "preparing for war". China has spent half a century plotting to defeat America and in some respects, the Chinese military is already at par with the US armed forces, Haley said in a major policy speech on the economy in the key early primary State of New Hampshire on Friday. Her speech comes two days after her India-American Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy delivered a foreign policy speech on China in Ohio. Both Haley and Ramaswamy have emerged as popular GOP candidates after former US president Donald Trump. "Strength and pride are essential to our national survival, especially in the face of Communist China. China is an existential threat. It has spent half a century plotting to defeat us," Haley said. She alleged that China has taken America's manufacturing jobs. "It's taken our trade secrets. Now it's taking control of critic

China's artificial intelligence 'war of hundred models' heads for shakeout

China now has at least 130 large language models (LLMs), accounting for 40 per cent of the global total

US, China launch financial working groups with aim of easing tensions

The US Treasury Department and China's Ministry of Finance launched a pair of economic working groups on Friday in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties between the nations. Led by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Vice Premier He Lifeng, the working groups will be divided into economic and financial segments. The working groups will establish a durable channel of communication between the world's two largest economies, Yellen said in a series of planned tweets shared with The Associated Press ahead of Friday's announcement. Yellen said the groups will serve as important forums to communicate America's interests and concerns, promote a healthy economic competition between our two countries with a level playing field for American workers and businesses." The announcement follows a string of high-ranking administration officials' visits to China this year, which sets the stage for a possible meeting between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Novemb

China and India lead Asia's biggest hydropower generation crunch in decades

The two countries, which account for about 3/4 of Asia's power generation and most of its emissions, are also to a lesser extent using renewables to make up for the hydropower shortfall

China is rising: Ultra-rich Gen Zs flock home as US-China tensions grow

US-China tensions are so fraught, even the world's richest are struggling to bring the two sides together.

China's economic woes deepen, advisors suggest more infrastructure spending

Advisers calling for immediate stimulus argue the central government's low debt means it can shoulder the burden with municipalities to finance infrastructure

Republic Prez hopeful Ramaswamy to declare 'independence from China' plan

Ramaswamy will speak about what he terms a "pro-trade approach to sensibly decoupling from China" and "knocked conservatives" who do not support a "trade-led agenda" and call it "unserious"

Nvidia CEO touts India as major AI market in a bid to hedge China risks

For Nvidia, whose graphics processors are vital to the development of artificial intelligence systems, the South Asian nation of 1.4 billion people presents a rare opportunity

India's green hydrogen ambitions ride the coat-tails of Chinese equipment

India's ambitions for green hydrogen are riding the coat-tails of Chinese equipment, with Beijing's global stranglehold on the green hydrogen business now extending to New Delhi

Tornadoes kill 10 people and seriously injure 4 others in eastern China

A tornado killed five people and seriously injured four others in eastern China, state media said Wednesday. The tornado hit parts of Suqian city in Jiangsu province about 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV said. It destroyed 137 homes and damaged crop land and pig farms. Videos posted online showed cars that had been tossed about, including at least one flipped onto its side, and debris swirling in the air above a several-story-high building. CCTV said that power and road service had been restored in the area. Tornadoes are rare in China but have caused deaths in Jiangsu in recent years. One person in the province was killed in a tornado last year and four died in 2021. Another tornado killed eight people in the city of Wuhan the same day.

Amid rising China-Taiwan tensions, Tokyo appoints two new defence personnel

Analysts think the moves reflect the growing level of importance that Tokyo attaches to the status across the Taiwan Strait

The Indo-Pacific power play

The US bolstering its alliances in the region to counter China puts India's strategic autonomy to the test

Vague tensions with Washington hurting business: Foreign firms in China

Foreign companies operating in China say tensions with Washington over technology, trade and other issues and uncertainty over Chinese policies are damaging the business environment and causing some to reassess their plans for investing in the giant market. The results of surveys released Tuesday by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China largely concurred in appealing for greater certainty and clarity over China's stance toward foreign businesses. For decades, European companies thrived in China, benefitting from a stable and efficient business environment. However, after the turbulent past three years, many have reevaluated their basic assumptions about the Chinese market, Jens Eskelund, the EU Chamber's president said, in a letter that accompanied the report. Eskelund said that predictability and reliability had been undermined by erratic policy shifts, hurting confidence in China's growth prospects. At the top of a ...