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China to sentence 7 Hong Kong democracy advocates involved in protests

Seven of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy advocates are expected to be sentenced on Friday for organizing a march during the 2019 anti-government protests

Japan's PM Suga arrives in US for talks with Biden, China top agenda

The talks are meant to show the strength of the two nations' security alliance at a time when both are concerned with China's growing economic and military clout

We have won the Afghanistan war and America has lost, say Taliban

China voiced concern over the US' decision to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by September

China resorted to 'my way or no way' policies but India stood firm: CDS

In his address at the Raisina Dialogue here, Gen Rawat said China felt that it will be able to compel nations to give in to its demands by doing a little bit of 'shove and push'

China's official in Hong Kong warns of retaliation against foreign meddling

Beijing's top official in Hong Kong on Thursday warned foreign forces not to interfere with the bottom line of national security in the city, threatening retaliation

India-China border tensions remain high despite force pullbacks: US Intel

US intelligence community told Congress that Beijing seeks to use coordinated, whole-of-government tools to demonstrate its growing strength

Delayed by coronavirus, Hong Kong's legislative elections set for Dec 2021

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said that the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's legislative elections will take place in December, more than a year after they were postponed by authorities

India fast-tracks emergency use of foreign-made Covid-19 vaccines

No need for prior local clinical trials for vaccines cleared by regulators

Explained: What is the 'Milk Tea Alliance' and how did it start?

Apart from being generally pro-democracy and pro-liberty, the Milk Tea Alliance is specifically anti-People's Republic of China (PRC)

Raisina Dialogue: NATO Secy Gen flags China coercion of neighbours,

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday flagged China's assertive moves such as coercing neighbours in the region and hampering freedom of navigation in the South China Sea

China needs to vaccinate over 1 bn people to build immunity: Official

China needs to vaccinate more than a billion people in order to build an immune protection barrier against the Covid-19, a senior Chinese immunologist has said.

China's March exports rise 30.6% as global consumer demand revives

Traders watched for signs of what President Joe Biden might do about reviving tariff war talks with Beijing.

Oil prices climb on robust China data, Middle East tensions

Brent crude oil futures were up 37 cents

China warns online platform companies to halt anti-competitive practices

China's market regulator said on Tuesday it had warned nearly three dozen internet "platform" companies to stop using any banned practices

China exports rise at robust pace in Mar, imports growth highest in 4 years

Despite sporadic Covid-19 cases in China's border cities, authorities have been able to contain the virus in a boost to factory activity as production has gradually picked up to pre-pandemic levels

Tencent-backed Waterdrop faces pushback on IPO from Chinese regulators

Beijing-headquartered Waterdrop distributes insurance policies online and provides illness crowd-funding

No nation is more important than India as US seeks to counter China: Report

As US seeks to counter a rising China, a leading think tank for science and technology policy has said no nation is more important than India with its strong political and cultural ties with the US

Canada considers China as top concern to its national security: Report

China is one of Canada's chief national security concerns, the country's National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) said on Monday in a report

China opens 5G station at world's highest radar location near Tibet border

China has opened a 5G signal base at the Ganbala radar station in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet which is the world's highest manually operated radar station at an elevation of 5,374 meters, the Chinese military's official website reported on Monday. The mountain is located in Nagarze County in Tibet which is in the vicinity of borders with India and Bhutan. At the end of last year, the People's Liberation Army started to coordinate with civilian enterprises to launch 5G base station construction in Ganbala to solve the difficulty of network access for the border defence troops, the website said. The stable and high-speed 5G signal enables the soldiers in the deep mountains to keep up with the information society, leaving the monotonous and boring life on the border, it said. It is part of efforts to improve training and on-duty conditions for soldiers stationed in border areas, it added.

China asks officials to halt mandatory coronavirus vaccination

China's central health officials have asked their provincial counterparts to halt mandatory vaccination orders