APP | Dawn.com BEIJING: Assistant Foreign Minister of China, Liu Jianchao said Monday that China strongly supports improvement in Pakistan-India relations, and that is ready to help resolve outstanding issues through dialogue between the two countries. “We strongly support improvement in relations between Pakistan and India. We appreciate Pakistan’s efforts for normalisation,” he said. The comments from the Chinese foreign ministry follow a recent spike in tensions and deadly clashes along the…
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François de La Rochefoucauld famously said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. The quip nicely sums up Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping ’s legal reforms. The Chinese Communist Party is trumpeting the Oct. 23 decision of the Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee as a major advance in the rule of law. Not quite. From the humblest policeman to the Supreme Court, the legal apparatus will continue to serve…
Two Chinese officials who bought corpses off grave robbers in an attempt to meet controversial central government cremation quotas have been arrested. The two Chinese officials from Guangdong province bought the bodies off a grave robber, identified only by his surname Zhong, who is believed to have stolen more than 20 bodies from local villages before transporting them on the back of a motorbike to sell. In recent years the Chinese government has…