What happened? [caption id="attachment_31728" align="alignleft" width="300"] Combo photo of U.S. President Joe Biden (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron. Courtesy: Xinhua/IANS[/caption] On 15 September, the US President Joe Biden, the UK PM Boris Johnson and Australian PM Scott Morrison, in...
The New Afghanistan, with an Old Taliban Suba Chandran What happened? On 4 September, Kabul airport became functional, and news reports mention the first domestic flight taking off. [caption id="attachment_31753" align="alignleft" width="300"] Taliban unlikely to model its political system on...
[caption id="attachment_31758" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chinese President Xi Jinping. Courtesy: Xinhua/Ju Peng/IANS[/caption] China: Armed forces can "paralyse" Taiwan's defences In its annual report to parliament on China's military, Taiwan's Defence Ministry presented a far graver view of China as a rising...
[caption id="attachment_31781" align="alignleft" width="300"] Courtesy: Apa.az[/caption] China: Beijing's economic interests in Afghanistan outweigh likely threats from the Taliban What happened? On 16 August 2021, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying held a regular press conference and stated: "China has...
ALSO, IN THE NEWS By Sukanya Bali and Avishka Ashok China: Tech scrutiny over unfair competition tightened On 17 August, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued a draft regulation to ban unfair competition and restrict the use of...
South China Sea: New tensions, with military exercises and foreign warships What happened? On 2 August, Germany's Brandenburg-class frigate Bayern (Bavaria) warship was deployed to the South China Sea from Wilhelmshaven on a six-month voyage. This would be the first time...