On Taiwan, China meets its ‘gray-zone’ warfare match

China, a global leader in the exercise of gray-zone warfare, has suffered through what amounts to an ALL OF US government gray-zone strategy involving Taiwan throughout the Trump and Biden administrations. In the consequences of the visit to Taiwan by US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, we are seeing via specific Chinese actions how Beijing details […]

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India to oust Chinese phone brands from local markets

A man talks on his mobile phone while walking on a road in Kolkata, India. Photo: Reuters

JAIPUR – India will likely soon restrict Chinese smartphone makers from selling products in lower-tier local markets, a move that will aim to prop and protect competing Indian manufacturers while applying more regulatory pressure on big Chinese producers like Xiaomi Corp, OPPO and Vivo. The move, which is not yet formally announced but reported in […]

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Hero’s burial for former Philippine leader Fidel Ramos

MANILA: Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, a soldier regarded as one of the country’s most effective leaders ever, was interred at the National Heroes Cemetery on Tuesday (Aug 9) in a sombre state burial. A low-flying military helicopter dropped flowers as a wagon bearing the flag-draped coffin containing an urnContinue Reading

As Beijing rages over Taiwan, mood on China’s streets muted

BEIJING: China’s thunderous response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit brought cross-Strait tensions to their highest level in years and sparked an outpouring of nationalist zeal online, but the mood on the streets in mainland China is a little more circumspect. Enraged by Pelosi’s trip, Beijing last weekContinue Reading