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When Nations Employ the Expansionary Grammar of Corporate Acquisitions
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If one location matters most to India in Sri Lanka, it is Trincomalee. With one of the finest natural harbours in the world, Trincomalee has immense commercial, naval, and energy value. For decades, strategists in New Delhi have viewed it as critical to the security architecture of the Bay of Bengal.
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China asks India to refrain from supporting Taiwan
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LAC troops deployment up as India, China take diplomatic route
Increased tension between China and India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has forced both the countries' militaries to increase deployment of men in thousands and assets at forward locations within their respective territories
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India denies China's claims of activity in violation of LAC
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MP for Maradhoo Ibrahim Shareef has called on the government to obtain loans from China to repair the damage caused to the economy of the country and the financials of the state due to COVID-19
Concerned nations must ally to contain China
Action against China can be on the economic front and/or military front. Action on the economic front primarily means to stop all imports from China to the extent possible, writes Vinod Aggarwal for South Asia Monitor
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A wide-body aircraft of Nepal Airlines carrying 18.84 tons of medical equipment arrived in the capital from Guangzhou of China, on Tuesday morning
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Indian forces accuse Chinese troops of blocking patrols
Indian armed forces have accused the Chinese People's Liberation Army of blocking patrols and unnecessarily erecting tents and deploying forces at Sikkim and Ladakh inside Indian territory on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two countries
Xi offers Hasina Chinese experts to fight COVID-19
Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a team of coronavirus experts as COVID-19 cases and death toll from the disease continue to surge in Bangladesh
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