New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) While a top Chinese court has made it mandatory for employers and workers to contribute to social insurance schemes for workers, in practice, only around one-third of companies in the country are following the order, according to a media report.The reason for the social welfare measure not taking off is that the companies see such payments as leading to an increase in costs that reduces their profit margins, while workers say that they do not have enough money to make the…
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Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including the United Nations, to take principled, coordinated action against what it described as Beijing’s ongoing “institutionalisation of a coercive security-and-control system” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities call the region “an occupied country” currently under China’s “colonial rule”. The E…
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the United States and China have reached a point of “strategic stability” in their relationship, even as Washington remains wary of supply chain dependence, technology access, and Beijing’s expanding nuclear stockpile.Speaking to reporters in Saint Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday (local time), Rubio said both sides recognise the risks of escalation. “I think both countries concluded that having an all-out trade — global t…
Tokyo, Feb 24 (IANS) China’s policy towards Japan is not merely a tactical misstep but a “strategic blunder” rooted in a misunderstanding of how influence is shaped and consolidated in Asia. By viewing Japan primarily as an adversarial player instead of a competitive partner within a shared regional framework, Beijing is limiting its own strategic options, a report said on Tuesday.“China’s approach towards Japan has reached an inflection point in the past few months since the autumn of 202…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A multi-billion rupee Nepal project, a part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been dropped from election pledges by former Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah, who is contesting against former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in the latter’s bastion of Jhapa-5 constituency, reports said. Parliamentary election is scheduled in Nepal on March 5 under an interim government, which was constituted after the resignation of the Oli government facing widespread Gen Z …
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Bangladesh, under new Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, faces structural challenges in balancing the US and China trade ties as both are vital economic partners, a new report has said.The Nikkei Asia report said that “onerous terms” of a US trade deal have highlighted how Rahman “faces a delicate balancing act” when it comes to ties with Washington and Beijing as the two vie for influence in his country.While American is touting market access, security cooperation a…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Pakistan’s push to position itself as a supplier of rare earths and critical minerals to the United States remains only a promise without evidence unless domestic security, political stability and regulatory clarity improve, a new report has said.The report in Pakistan-based The Friday Times said that despite geological potential including deposits at Reko Diq and reports of rare earth elements in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, “the state of security, politics and…
Washington, Feb 17 (IANS) Declaring that Washington would not demand ideological loyalty tests from its partners, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that under President Trump, the United States expects “every nation on Earth” to pursue its own national interest — and is “not asking any country in the world to isolate themselves from anybody,” including China.In remarks that could resonate well beyond Hungary — including in New Delhi — Rubio framed the Trump administration’s for…
Washington, Feb 14 (IANS) Two senior US senators have urged the Trump Administration to convene a Quad Leaders’ Summit ahead of President Donald Trump’s expected meeting in April with Chinese President Xi Jinping, arguing that it would strengthen Washington’s leverage in dealings with Beijing.US Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Pete Ricketts (R-NE), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote to Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, encouraging the Ad…
Mumbai, Feb 13 (IANS) China’s nationwide primary property sales are expected to fall 10–14 per cent as a persistent glut of completed housing keeps a market recovery out of reach, a new report has said.The report from S&P Global said the completed primary inventory rose for the sixth year in a row to 766 million square metres by 2025 end, up 1.6 per cent (year-on-year).Completed inventory at end-2025 was 45 per cent higher than the 10-year average prior to the downturn, the report further …