ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has turned into a favorite destination for Chinese people for doing their business and making investment in the projects, being executed under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) or ‘One belt one road’. Eventually, it enhanced ‘People-to-people’ contacts between the two countries, said here a senior official. There has been considerable increase in number of Chinese people traveled to Pakistan in the recent year. Mainly, they are engaged in the CPEC-related projects. According to a…
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The author is deputy dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University. During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s just concluded state visit to China, a series of massive deals were sealed between the two sides and Sino-Russian strategic mutual trust has been hailed and consolidated. Apart from that, in the joint statement signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin, both countries voiced their concern over an increasing number of “negative factors” affecting global…
BEIJING — An activist who has spent the last several years documenting labor protests across China has been detained by the authorities since mid-June, friends of his said on Monday. The activist, Lu Yuyu, was taken into custody by the police on June 16 in the southwestern town of Dali, where he lives, a writer who has had regular online contact with him, Xu Hui, said by telephone. Dali, a popular and mountainous tourist area…
“The militant network can be dismantled only after their arrests,” a high official of Detective Branch (DB) police requesting anonymity told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. The official also said a number of banned homegrown militant outfit are indoctrinating people outside of Dhaka to get involved in killings in the capital. The official who is working to hunt down militant network also said they had so far been able to identify two locations – one in…
The writer is a former foreign secretary. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Marco Polo diplomacy and Washington’s full-throttle support all around, India’s application for membership in the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has hit a dead end at the NSG’s latest annual plenary meeting in Seoul. While not on the group’s agenda, some of India’s overenthusiastic proxies opted to raise the questionable question for a ‘decision’ at this meeting. The decision has come indeed –…
The 26th plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) ended in Seoul last week. Prior to the meeting, India’s membership bid had already generated debates. Was China blocking India’s inclusion, as most Indian experts believed? What is the standard for the NSG to include new members? Wang Qun (Wang), Director-General of the Arms Control Department of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, talked with the media about these issues. It has been reported that at the…
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) had a plenary meeting in Seoul last week, and all members participated in a special conference on Thursday evening about the accession of non-participants of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) into the NSG. At least 10 countries, including China, have opposed their bid.India is not a signatory to the NPT, but is the most active applicant to join the NSG. Before the Seoul meeting, the Indian media played up the…