( Dr Zhou Zunyou is head of the China section at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, and the author of Balancing Security and Liberty: Counter-Terrorism Legislation in Germany and China) On August 30, a suicide bomber crashed his car through the entrance of China’s embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, before blowing himself up and wounding three embassy staff. The attack came just a day before the Central Asian country’s 25th national…
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Li Xiaopeng, the elder son of former Chinese premier Li Peng, has been appointed as the country’s new transport minister, Xinhua said. China’s President Xi Jinping and the National People’s Congress Standing Committee had announced on Saturday that Yang Chuantang had been removed from the post and replaced by Li, who was previously governor of Shanxi province, it said. The announcement confirmed the South China Morning Post’s report on August 28 that Li had been…
The writer is Senior Editor for The Long War Journal. Al Qaeda claims that two of Ayman al Zawahiri’s daughters and a third woman were released weeks ago in exchange for the son of General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s former spymaster who also served as the Chief of Army Staff until 2013. The 20th edition of Al Masra magazine, which was posted online in late August, featured the claim on its front page. Al Masra…
China is willing to work with India to maintain their hard-won sound relations and further advance their cooperation, President Xi Jinping said Sunday. Xi made the remarks when meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Hangzhou. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1004575.shtml