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…
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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 …
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) President Donald Trump said that he will visit China in April for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi is expected to visit the United States later this year.“Yeah, I’ll be visiting President Xi in April. I look forward to it. He’s coming here later in the year, and I look very much forward to it,” Trump told reporters at the White House.Trump described ties with Beijing as steady. “No, our relationship with China is very good right now,” he said in …
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) US lawmakers pressed for greater clarity and consistency in President Donald Trump’s second-term policy toward Taiwan during a high-stakes congressional hearing on China’s efforts to marginalise the self-ruled island. At a Select Committee hearing titled “Lies, Lawfare, and Leverage: The CCP’s Gaslighting and Manipulation to Marginalise Taiwan” on Wednesday (local time), Ranking Member Ro Khanna questioned witnesses on whether the administration’s approach w…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) From the strict one-child policy to curb population, China is now pushing women to bear more children to boost the dwindling demographics, said a media report.The Myanmar-based MeKong News reported that over the past four decades, the state, not women, has been dictating the country’s birth policies. While the one-child policy, introduced in 1979, was justified as an urgent brake on population growth, the country is now forcing women towards more children as it stares a…
Mumbai, Feb 5 (IANS) The Taiwanese government’s move to deepen collaboration with the US in artificial intelligence (AI) and critical minerals aims to counter risks from growing competition with Beijing, a new report has said.The report from Modern Diplomacy said senior Taiwanese and US officials discussed cooperation on AI, technology, and drones at a high‑level forum, after which the US State Department described Taiwan as a “vital partner”.Taiwan must look to fellow democracies rather t…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he held an “excellent” and wide-ranging telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, touching on trade, security, geopolitics, and energy, and signaling what he described as a positive trajectory for U.S.-China relations over the next three years. Trump said the call was “long and thorough,” and covered “many important subjects,” including “Trade, Military,” his planned April visit to China, Taiwa…
Naypyidaw, Feb 3 (IANS) China’s expanding use of fishing fleets and maritime militia in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) reflects a deliberate strategy aimed at normalising coercive presence and undermining established maritime norms. Through the weaponisation of civilian vessels and exploitation of legal ambiguities, Beijing is exporting instability, environmental degradation, and strategic pressure into a region vital to regional security, posing a direct maritime threat to the IOR rather than …
Taipei, Feb 2 (IANS) Chinese military aircraft incursions near Taiwan have increased nearly 15-fold over the past five years, local media reported citing a report from the Department of China Affairs of Taiwan’s ruling party Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) . According to the report, sorties in the Taiwan Strait were not entering regularly previously, with 380 in 2020. The report revealed that the sorties have now started routine operations in the Taiwan Strait, leading daily Taipei Times …
London, Jan 30 (IANS) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his team have been given burner phones and fresh sim cards during their China visit. They are also using temporary email addresses to prevent devices being loaded with spyware or UK government servers being hacked into, a report has stated. “The employment of such tactics may sound dramatic but they are par for the course in an age of digital espionage and information security. Burner phones, for example, are routinely used by No 10 o…