The local government of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has encouraged its officials to build family-like ties with the ethnic minorities in order to promote national unity and accord. Xinjiang held a meeting themed “family-like ethnic bonding” on Sunday, which advocated its 110,000 government officials to build one-to-one relationships with people in four prefectures – Kashgar, Hotan, Aksu and Kizilsu Kirgiz – in southern Xinjiang. Moreover, officials of central ministries as well 19 provinces that support…
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By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and MICHELLE INNIS BEIJING — They chased after wealthy clients with promises of rides aboard private jets. They boasted of their ability to secure visas on a moment’s notice. They catered to the whims of their most valuable customers, even providing chefs who could recreate obscure Chinese dishes. The China-based employees of Crown Resorts, one of Australia’s largest hotel and casino operators, faced a delicate task: building a devoted customer base…
Since the introduction and practice of modern international system, states tend to shape and reshape policies under the regional or international settings. There is no permanent friend, neither foe in contemporary world. It is however, a country’s geographical location and strategic significance that makes it attractive or non-attractive. A state, despite its internal incompetency and inadequacy can still matter for many if it has greater magnetism for regional or extra-regional players. Pakistan fits well for…
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying’s statement regarding Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s invective against Pakistan at the BRICS summit held in Goa, India, bears the characteristic maturity and restraint of a strong and powerful country. Highlighting Chinese opposition to any form of terrorism along with the need to delink it from “any specific country, ethnicity or religion,” Hua said that Pakistan’s sacrifices in the fight against terrorism should be respected by the international…
The shape of regional alliances and rivalries in South Asia has become clearer in the past few days first during the BRICS summit in Goa and then with further Chinese statements on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The announcement that the nuclear reactor in Chashma, funded and constructed by China, has now been connected to the grid came just days after China once again rejected Indian membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group. China also said it…
Although he is unlikely to have realised it at the time and quite possibly later, Indian PM Modi got his head handed to him by the BRICS nations. The BRICS summit was not the place to play poker with stone-eyed high rollers like Russia and China and inveigle them into a position that suits your domestic narrative. The BRICS states: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, comprise two of the most powerful states in…
THERE was a time when the BRICS grouping was considered a serious affair by the world community. Comprised of the largest emerging world markets, the group was looked upon as an engine for the global economy, with a potential role in lifting economies out of the wreckage of the great financial crisis of 2008. BRICS has presided over the formation of large regional cooperation blocs and a multilateral development bank modelled after the World Bank.…
India’s diplomatic endeavour to illicit the support of other nations in alienating Pakistan has not really gone according to plan. A United Nations General Assembly session and a BRICS summit later, there is not much to take away for India on the diplomatic front.And yet, on and on it goes, with Rajnath Singh choosing to chime in once more on Monday, when he stated that Pakistan should close down its ‘factory of terror’, and that…