Chinese President Xi Jinping has risked his future with high-profile incursions into Indian territory that has “unexpectedly flopped” after a strong fight back by the Indian Army, according to a new report published on a leading US magazine. Jinping, 67, has also been described as the “architect” of the People’s Liberation Army’s aggressive moves against India in an opinion article on the Newsweek. “Unfortunately for Xi, he is the architect of these aggressive moves into India and his People's Liberation Army (PLA) has unexpectedly flopped. The Chinese army's failures on the Indian border will have consequences,” it said. Click here to read...
The central government's recent decision to construct a modern logistics system to support the dual circulation development pattern would guide infrastructure investment into high-efficiency transportation including airports and high-speed railway development, experts said. Click here to read...
Scientists said President Xi Jinping's speech on China's scientific development on Friday was deeply insightful, inspiring, and instructive. The Chinese scientific community will strive to push the development of basic sciences, train quality talents and create original breakthroughs and innovations to meet the nation's needs. Click here to read...
A Chinese defense spokesman on Sunday expressed firm opposition to a recent report released by the U.S. Department of Defense. Wu Qian, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said the report titled "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2020" is further proof of the U.S. intent to smear China and its military. China deplores and firmly opposes the action by the U.S. side, Wu said. Click here to read...
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Sunday unveiled new rules to regulate market access of financial holding companies.
The new regulation requires non-financial companies or other eligible entities, which control at least two financial institutions doing business across financial sectors, to apply to and get approval from the People's Bank of China to establish financial holding companies. Click here to read...
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Indian counterpart in Moscow on Thursday and reached a five-point consensus that is widely believed will help de-escalate border tensions between the two states. Click here to read...
In mid-September 1962, Chairman Mao Zedong once told his colleagues, "I have already spent 10 days and nights to think about this issue, but I still fail to understand why Nehru chose to provoke us." Fifty-eight years later, today's Chinese people are sharing exactly the same confusion as Chairman Mao because of the current Indian administration's almost irrationally aggressive provocations on the China-India border. There is a very unfortunate and worrisome phenomenon at the present that every peace-loving individual from China and India must be cautious about: the current situation is alarmingly similar to that of 1962. Click here to read...
Five Indians, who were allegedly “kidnapped” by the China’s People Liberation Army or as some called went missing in the south Tibet region, are India’s intelligence staff who had disguised themselves as hunters, a source told the Global Times. Click here to read...
Let me brief on what I know about the situation on the China-India border. Based on what I know, in the past two days, the border area has returned to tranquility, maybe temporarily, especially the situation at Pangong Lake. Apparently, the meeting between Chinese and Indian defense ministers and the one between foreign ministers played a positive role in cooling down the situation. Click here to read...
Border troops of China and India should continue their talks, disengage as soon as possible and maintain a necessary distance, the foreign ministers of the two countries said in a joint news release. Click here to read...
Russia’s efforts to mediate in the China-India border dispute shows what is at stake for Moscow if the row worsens between the two nuclear-armed Asian neighbours, observers say. Beijing and New Delhi have held two high-level meetings this month, both in Moscow on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) gathering, in a bid to defuse tensions over a military stand-off along their frontier in the Himalayas that began in early May. Click here to read...
For more than 18 weeks now, thousands of Indian and Chinese forces have been locked in an unprecedented stand-off along their 3,488km (2,167 mile) undemarcated boundary known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which ranges from the Karakoram mountain range in the north to the trijunction with Myanmar in the east. Click here to read...