Red Flag Exercises: US, Britain, Australia conduct military drills with eye on China
Ajeyo Basu • 2 years agoThe Red Flag exercises are focussed on addressing the vast distances that the AUKUS alliance comprising the United States (US), Britain and Australia will have to deal with while operating against China across the Pacific Ocean
Weight of history: Why Chinese don't sympathise with earthquake-hit Turkey?
Ajeyo Basu • 2 years agoA significant section among Chinese netizens seem to be looking at the tragic Turkey earthquake with politically coloured lenses. Turkey’s support for the Turkic speaking Uighur people of the Xinjiang province in western China seem to be the main reason for their angst
Afghanistan: Taliban arrests Chinese nationals for smuggling precious stones
Ajeyo Basu • 2 years agoIf recent activities of Chinese nationals in Afghanistan are anything to go by, China plans to loot natural resources from the war-ravaged country just as it is doing in neighbouring Pakistan
Pakistan: Attacks, protests raise security concerns over China’s investments in Balochistan
Fp Staff • 2 years agoThe China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) connects Pakistan’s Gwadar port in the Balochistan province with China’s Xinjiang province as the centrepiece of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China, which is budgeted at 60 billion US dollars
Pakistan helps China steal Balochistan’s resources as locals remain impoverished
Ajeyo Basu • 2 years agoBalochistan, which Pakistan’s largest province by area, is being robbed of its natural resources by an exploitative China through the CPEC which is a part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the Chinese government
Japan aims to hit China, North Korea; intends to develop long range missiles by 2035
Fp Staff • 2 years agoFollowing its defeat in World War II, Japan adopted a pacifist policy for the next seven decades. However, the expansionist policies of China and repeated sabre rattling by Chinese stooge North Korea seems to have re-awakened the ancient Samurai spirit of Japan
Pakistan: Mobile network shut for 5th consecutive day in Balochistan amid Gwadar protests
Fp Staff • 2 years agoBusiness centers and shops in Gwadar and several other places in Balochistan remained closed in protest against 'illegal fishing' - specially by Chinese trawlers - and 'unnecessary check posts' by the Pakistan security forces
Arunachal Pradesh: ITBP building more LAC posts to foil future Chinese incursions
Fp Staff • 2 years agoAreas in the Yangtze plateau, where the latest clash between the Indian Army and the PLA had taken place on December 9, are among the places where these new ITBP order posts are to be built
Amid LAC standoff, PLA rakes up more trouble in South China Sea
Fp Staff • 2 years agoTensions between China and other claimants in the South China Sea - the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Brunei - have been rising for years as the Chinese government invested more in the PLA Navy (PLAN) and coast guard ships in order to enforce its claims
Days after de-escalation from fisticuffs in Tawang, China conducts war games near Arunachal border
Fp Staff • 2 years agoIn the confrontation that had taken place in Tawang on December 9, Indian Army soldiers had thrashed a much larger PLA contingent of 300 Chinese personnel who were attempting to capture territory around a mountaintop held by India in the Yangtse sector