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Asserting that it was necessary to complete the process of disengagement in eastern Ladakh “at the earliest”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi the need for “full and sincere” implementation of an agreement on restoration of peace and tranquility in the region. IMAGE: …

New Delhi: The conspiracy theory around the origin of SARS-CoV-2, or the novel coronavirus after it escaped from the Wuhan laboratory seems to have gained ground after the shocking revelation of Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the pandemic. As per the ‘The Sun’ newspaper in …

By PTI BEIJING: China on Tuesday asked the Philippines to stop the “megaphone diplomacy” over its claims on a reef in the disputed South China Sea and said its officials should have “basic manners” and stop insulting remarks after Manila’s top diplomat termed Beijing an “ugly oaf”. Reports from Manila on Tuesday said …

China Foreign Minister and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary during a meet in Manila (FILE) Beijing: China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to observe “basic etiquette” and eschew megaphone diplomacy after the southeast Asian nation’s foreign minister used an expletive-laced Twitter message to demand that China’s vessels leave disputed waters. The …

China’s military on Thursday described as “completely inconsistent with the facts” the assertion of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) tried to change the status quo in eastern Ladakh. The remarks by the spokesperson of China’s Ministry of National Defence came days after …

The Philippine coast guard is conducting drills in the South China Sea which an official said Sunday were part of efforts to secure “our maritime jurisdiction” over the disputed waters. The exercises near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island and China-controlled Scarborough Shoal come amid heightened tensions over the resource-rich sea. The …

In a joint statement, the two countries said they would “firmly safeguard multilateralism and support the central role of the United Nations in international affairs.” China and Pakistan have pledged to back each other’s “core and major interests” in the United Nations after holding bilateral consultations on UN affairs. Both …

‘There is a sense of realism in the Pakistan army that if they needled India during the Ladakh standoff, they would have seen a strong retaliation.’‘Pakistan was hoping that India would come out looking weaker in the region and get embarrassed, but that obviously has not happened.’ IMAGE: Pakistan army …

Taiwan will run eight days of computer-aided war games this month, its defence ministry said on Wednesday, days after China said an aircraft carrier was conducting drills near the island and that such exercises would become routine. Chinese-claimed Taiwan has come under increasing military pressure from Beijing in recent months, …

The United Nations is holding “serious negotiations” with China on gaining unfettered access to the Xinjiang region to verify reports that Muslim Uighurs are being persecuted, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said last month that reports of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, …