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
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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
Why the US shouldn’t overreact to China and Russia
WHO urges China to give more COVID-19 info
The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.The announcement Saturday was the first official death toll
China renews threat against Taiwan
China renewed its threats Wednesday to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are "playing with fire." A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the country was recommitted in the new year to "safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity" and "smashing plots for Taiwan
Maintaining good ties with both US, China challenging: Momen
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh is maintaining good relations with both global powers USA and China through its balanced foreign policy, though it is a "challenging" task. "That is a challenging thing. They (US, China) might have their own problems. That is their headache, not ours.
China suspends social media accounts of COVID policy critics
China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government's policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to further open up.The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers