Air India on Saturday commenced the first cargo flight between Shanghai and Delhi. "An Air-bridge between Shanghai & Delhi has been established," the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement on Saturday
Asia's Balance of Power Depends on India's Ability to Face China’s Strategic Challenge
Over the past decade, India’s strategic landscape has grown increasingly complex. Beijing has not diluted its consistent strategy of constraining India. Whether through deepening ties with Pakistan, or expanding influence in India’s periphery, China’s approach remains adversarial. Beijing’s assertive regional posture underscores the urgency for India to rethink both its economic and security policies.
Myanmar's Collapse Will Have Consequences Far Beyond Asia
What began with a coup in 2021 has devolved into a theater for China’s energy security, India’s border anxieties, Russia’s arms sales, and America’s China strategy. Each external actor pursues its narrow interests; none has the incentive to restore genuine stability. The losers, inevitably, are Myanmar’s people.
The Tibetan Buddhist Reincarnation System and China's Political Weaponization
Chinese emperors, especially those of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, recognized that control over Tibetan Buddhism offered a powerful form of soft power. By leveraging religious authority, they could exert indirect political influence over Buddhist populations beyond China's borders.
India’s Indian Ocean Strategy Harnesses Civilisational Depth With Blue Economy Cooperation
Development diplomacy remains India’s strongest soft-power tool in the Indian Ocean. The contrast between India’s low-interest, grant-based infrastructure projects and China’s debt-heavy Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has not gone unnoticed. The Maldivian pivot back to India is partly driven by this contras
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Indian attorneys, ICJ move UNHRC against China for Covid-19 reparation
The International Council of Jurists (ICJ) and All India Bar Association have moved the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking compensation from China for "surreptitiously developing a biological weapon capable of mass destruction."
COVID-19: China should not be allowed to lift lockdown in hotspots
It is now recognized all over the world that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan region in China and China did not forewarn the world at the right time about what is now known as the China virus disaster
Air India may fly in medical equipment from China starting April 3
Air India is likely to transport critical medical equipment and supplies from China starting April 3
China gives anti-corona medical aid
The Chinese government has provided medical aid to Nepal government on Sunday to combat the novel coronavirus
Nepal to get medicines, kits from China
Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has said that necessary medicines required for the control of coronavirus infection will arrive in Nepal on Saturday
Bangladeshi doctor rallies organisations from China to send PPEs to Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi doctor in Fuwai Hospital--Dr Misbahul Ferdous--together with three organisations in China are sending PPEs to Bangladeshi doctors
China asks Pakistan to open border for medical supplies
China has asked Pakistan to open the border between the two countries for one day on Friday so that medical supplies to combat the novel coronavirus could be transported, a media report said
China offers to help India fight coronavirus pandemic
China has thanked India for its support in the fight against Covid-19 and offered to help contain the pandemic in the country
No coronavirus case was imported from China: Pakistan PM
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that homegrown cases of the novel coronavirus in Pakistan and not a single case was imported from China
An international tribunal should judge China for 'biological warfare'
The notion that COVID-19 originated outside China has no scientific evidence to support Beijing’s theory, but the WHO, instead of nailing China for the global COVID-19 outbreak caused by its biowarfare experiment going horribly wrong is busy wagging its tail like an obedient puppy – merely calling it a pandemic because China is the second-largest donor to the WHO, writes Lt Gen P. C. Katoch (retd) for South Asia Monitor
Covid-19: Has China failed the world?
US President Donald Trump has been repeatedly accusing China of not informing the world adequately and in time about the seriousness of the Coronavirus outbreak in China, which has caught several countries unaware
No new COVID-19 cases in Wuhan for 5 days
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, on Monday marked its fifth consecutive day of no new confirmed or suspected cases, a health official said
China hopes for Pakistan’s win in war against COVID-19
Amid a sharp surge in nationwide tally of COVID-19 patients, China has reassured Pakistan of full support in the fight against the coronavirus while praising the country’s top civil and military leaders for standing with the Chinese people in their hour of need
Bangladesh bringing coronavirus test kits, PPEs from China
China had readied 10,000 kits and as many PPEs at the request of Bangladesh, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said
