Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed the recent agreement between China and India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and told Xi Jinping that maintaining peace and stability on the border should be a priority for both the countries.PM Modi, who held bilateral talks with China’s Xi on the sidelines…
NEW DELHI: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday expressed India’s desire to return to the status quo of April 2020 with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).This marks the Army chief’s first statement regarding the India-China border patrolling agreement. After extensive negotiations, India and China have reached a consensus to revert to…
Weeks after President Droupadi Murmu extended wishes to Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 75th anniversary of China and expressed desire to improve bilateral ties, China’s foreign ministry welcomed it and said it was ‘ready’ to strengthen communication and mutual trust with India.China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao, responding to wishes extended by President Murmu to…
A hardnosed Chinese communist boss okays some policies, and an art-collecting French billionaire gets even richer. Weird? Not at all. Globally, the big money stuff often works like this.The link is demand. And it worked like this: Xi signed off on a stimulus package for China, which, by its own record-breaking standards, is currently an…
China’s efforts to achieve maritime military parity with the US have suffered a significant setback after its newest state-of-the-art nuclear submarine sank in a dock, according to American officials.The incident reportedly took place last May or June at the Wuchang shipyard near Wuhan – the same city associated with the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic…
NEW DELHI: Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong said on Wednesday that Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reached a consensus that China and India are partners in “cooperation and development” instead of rivals.“President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have reached an important consensus that China and India are not rivals…
President Xi Jinping has overseen a surge in Chinese nationalism to boost his government’s popularity as tensions have frayed with rivals. Now, the murder of a Japanese boy is exposing the dangers of that tactic.Chinese authorities declined to comment on the motive behind the attack on a 10-year-old boy stabbed this week near his Japanese…
NEW DELHI: In a major indication that alarm bells are going off in Beijing due to an impending demographic crisis that could potentially have severe impact on its economy, healthcare and social welfare systems, China’s top legislative body on Friday announced plans to raise the country’s retirement age. The development also comes as reports have…
NEW DELHI: India and China agreed to redouble their efforts and work urgently to achieve complete disengagement in the remaining areas of eastern Ladakh, which India sees as essential for normalising Sino-Indian ties, in a meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on the margins of BRICS NSAs meeting in St…
China’s proposed measures to ease marriage registration while making divorces harder to get have provoked a wave of public backlash, a reflection of the challenges facing the world’s No. 2 economy in arresting a sharp drop in births.Chinese authorities will no longer require couples filing for marriage to provide their hukou, or household registration, as…
