realme all set to drop its master design in China

realme has geared up to take the Chinese market by storm with its newest offerings, realme 11 Pro 5G Series, as the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brand confirms the date of their official launch, a press release said Thursday. Coming in two variants - realme 11 Pro+ 5G and realme 11

New possibilities in Middle East politics

On March 10, a special announcement aimed at easing the hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran came from both sides. China was the mediator of the talks held in Beijing. After four days of talks, two regional rivals in the Middle East, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have agreed to restore diplomatic

Stop political manipulation on COVID origins tracing China urges US

China once again urged the U.S. side to immediately stop political manipulation on COVID origins-tracing, voluntarily share the data of suspected early cases in the United States with the WHO, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday.  Mao's remarks came after the U.S. Senate passed the COVID-19 Origin Act

40 years after the Sino-US thaw

Wonder what Richard Solomon would have to say about the new Cold War between China and the US. On June 19, 1972, a Boeing 707 belonging to the United States Presidential fleet, touched down at Peking Airport at 7:30 pm on what a New York Times report referred to as ‘a

Rising seas appear as ‘death sentence’ for some nations: UN chief names Bangladesh, China, India in particular

The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that global sea levels have risen faster since 1900 and their relentless increase puts countries like Bangladesh, China, India and the Netherlands at risk and acutely endangers nearly 900 million people living in low-lying coastal areas.In a grim speech to the Security Council's first-ever

Democracy on the blink in Sri Lanka

On February 4, Sri Lanka commemorates 75 years of Independence. But it will not be the extravaganza of the past years, the minaturised imitations of the grand displays on Moscow’s Red Square or China’s Tiananmen Square. Still, a critical question has been reverberating in the community ever since the government announced

China, Russia fail to defund UN human rights work

United Nations member states agreed to fully fund UN human rights mechanisms that China, Russia, and their allies had sought to defund in the 2023 budget. This should set a precedent for UN human rights funding in the future. Human Rights Watch has warned for years about China and Russia-led efforts

Did China’s balloon violate international law?

Was the balloon that suddenly appeared over the US last week undertaking surveillance? Or was it engaging in research, as China has claimed? While the answers to these questions may not be immediately known, one thing is clear: the incursion of the Chinese balloon tested the bounds of international law. This incident

NATO wants more ‘friends’ as Russia, China move closer

China's growing assertiveness and collaboration with Russia pose a challenge not only to Asia but also to Europe, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday as he sought stronger cooperation and more "friends" for NATO in the Indo-Pacific region.Stoltenberg said China is increasingly investing in nuclear weapons and long-range missiles without

Jack Ma downfall spells end of China’s golden age

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. China's meagre 3% growth for 2022 signals the end of a three-decade-long golden