News From Other Sites

NDTV | 15 August 2020 | Read the original news here New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation from the majestic Red Fort on the occasion of India's 74th Independence Day today. This is PM Modi's second Independence Day Speech since he won a second term. More

Jayadeva Ranade | The Wire | 13 August 2020 | Read the news here China’s domestic politics has witnessed important developments in recent weeks. There has been a pronounced attempt to bolster President Xi Jinping’s status within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). More

Shishir Gupta for Hindustan Times. Read the original article here. More

By Ben Hales | The Diplomat | August 13, 2020 | Read the news here An Indian official greets the Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, on the latter’s arrival at a military camp on the frontier of Assam April 18, 1959 in India. In the center is Mr. P.N.Menon of the Indian department of external affairs, who represented Nehru. More

Experts in Taipei expect China to intensify military pressure on Taiwan, but say an invasion is unlikely any time soon. Erin Hale for South China Morning Post. 13 August 2020. Read original news here. More

Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times. Read the original article here. The onus for resolving the border standoff in the Ladakh sector of the Line of Actual Control is “not on China”, the Chinese envoy has said, even as he accused Indian troops of crossing the disputed border and triggering a violent clash on June 15. More

Brahma Chellaney | Nikkei Asian Review | August 12, 2020 | Read the news here Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan." Beijing's stealth aggression against India along the Himalayan border represents a geostrategic sea change. More

Oliver Milman | The Guardian | 12 August 2020 | Read the news here The past decade was the hottest ever recorded globally, with 2019 either the second or third warmest year on record, as the climate crisis accelerated temperatures upwards worldwide, scientists have confirmed. More

Brad Lendon for CNN. Read the original article here. Hong Kong (CNN)China is stepping up military drills around East Asia as a war of words with the United States heats up over Washington's military activities and the visit of a US cabinet secretary to Taiwan. One Chinese think tank even says the People's Liberation Army (PLA) may consider live-fire exercises near the US island of Guam. More

AFP | 11 August 2020 | Read the news here China is trying to turn Taiwan into another Hong Kong, the island’s foreign minister warned on Tuesday as he met with a senior US official making a historic diplomatic trip. More

FreeTibet.org | 11 August 2020 | Read the original news here Free Tibet and the International Tibet Network celebrate a campaign win. The Economist newspaper appears to have quietly dropped regular advertisements features which were previously paid for by Chinese state media. More

By Carol Morello for The Washington Post. August 11, 2020. Read original news here. The heads of five U.S. organizations that advocate for democracy and human rights learned Monday morning that one of the world’s most authoritarian governments had issued sanctions against them. More

NPR | 10 August 2020 | Read the news here A farmer from Shandong province along China's east coast, Liu recalls how during Chinese Lunar New Year in January, he went out for a walk and came home to discover local officials preparing to demolish his home. When he called the police on the demolishers, they arrested him instead, saying that the police would "assist the work of the local government. More

India Today | 9 August 2020 | Read the news here Mainland China's exports to India since January 2020 have fallen by 24.7 per cent year-on-year to $32.28 billion, customs data from the Chinese government has shown. This comes at a time when the call to boycott Chinese products has amplified sharply in India since May after the India-China border face-off in Galwan. More

Col Vinayak Bhat for India Today. Read the original article here. Over a period of 10 years, China has managed to construct three dams on the Brahmaputra river in parts of Tibet close to the Indian border. It plans to construct at least eight more such dams. More

Tenzin Tsultrim for The Quint. Read the original article here. China’s increasingly repressive policies will only breed more subtle resistance in Tibet and among Tibetans abroad. More

H I Sutton | Forbes | 5 August 2020 | Read original news here China has been building a series of surveillance platforms spanning parts of the South China Sea (SCS). Many of these are in Chinese waters, but several are floating in international waters. More

By NORMAN BAKER FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY | 10 August 2020 | Read the news here At last the world is waking up to the horrors inflicted by the Chinese Communist party upon the people it has colonised. In the past few days alone, we have seen pictures of chained and blindfolded Uighurs being forced on to trains to take them to concentration camps. More

Lily Kuo in Beijing and Reuters | Read the news here Google says it has deleted more than 2,500 YouTube channels tied to China as part of its effort to weed out disinformation on the video-sharing platform. The Alphabet-owned company said the channels were removed between April and June “as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China. More

By Kaori Enjoji and Brad Lendon, CNN | 7 August 2020 | Read the news here Tokyo (CNN)China's attempts to change the status quo in the South China Sea risks provoking a stern response from the international community, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono told CNN in an exclusive interview Friday. More