For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS | Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 8:32 [IST] Beijing, Mar 23: The China Eastern Airlines Corp, which crashed on Monday was travelling close to the speed of sound moments before it rammed into a hillside, a review of the flight track data by…Continue Reading
A resident (L) undergoes a nucleic acid test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province (AFP)BEIJING: Mainland China reported 402 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections with confirmed symptom for March 9, official data showed on Thursday, nearly doubling from the daily count a day earlier. Of the new local symptomatic infections, 165…Continue Reading
Recent moves by China have weaponised the space domain, Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Thursday, as he stated that terrestrial, space and aerial domains are losing their “individual identities” and the spectrum extends from small drones to hypersonic ballistic missiles. Space-based assets could become essential for the conduct…Continue Reading
Figure skater Nathan Chen (L), freestyle Skier Eileen Gu (R) and ice hockey players Hannah Miller (R-C) and Jeremy Smith (L-C) pictured during the Beijing Winter Games, 2022. (Image: Reuters)A defiant Nathan Chen, an imported ice-hockey team and a tech-savvy Eileen Gu – all of them combined together show how China’s bid to use the…Continue Reading
Next week, Death on the Nile will be the first Hollywood film to open in China in months, a sign of increasingly strained relations between the two cinematic superpowers.Death on the Nile, left, opens in theatres in North America this week and in China next week. Hollywood films are facing increased competition from Chinese productions…Continue Reading
Amid continued tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control(LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the Indian government told Parliament that China has been building a bridge on Pangong lake which it said was “constructed in areas that have continued to be under the illegal occupation of China since 1962.” “Government of India has never accepted this…Continue Reading
Last year, China’s national legislature established a new law on the preservation and exploitation of land border areas, declaring China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “sacred and inviolable,” which could have implications for Beijing’s border conflict with India. As a result of the new border law, which goes into force on January 1, India is likely…Continue Reading
China’s latest blanket ban did send the crypto space in a tizzy for a while. But then, don’t we already know that Bitcoin and Altcoins are particularly good at ‘bouncing back’. Speculations and possibilities aside, China’s crypto crackdown in 2021 has been rather uncompromising. Despite being considered a running joke by experts, which is to…Continue Reading
The Taliban has already expressed interest in Chinese investments and in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has pledged support and assistance to the Taliban in a meeting in Doha.Coming three months after Mr. Wang hosted the Taliban in Tianjin, near Beijing, in late July, the Chinese Foreign Minister met…Continue Reading
The authorities in China are trying to cope with the widespread power crisis in the country. The power shortfalls in Beijing might impact the supply chains around the world. China’s power crunch may ripple through the world economy, reshaped by the COVID pandemic, reported The Wall Street Journal. The power shortage in China has added to the ‘global energy squeeze’ that…Continue Reading