Uyghurs protest in Washington against Chinese persecution

Washington: Wearing masks, which were decorated with the flag of their native East Turkestan, a group of Uyghur Muslims demonstrated outside of the US Department of State here against their persecution and that of other religious minorities in China on Friday.

China: PLA to conduct four concentrated military drills across three major Chinese sea regions

Beijing: Pursuing its aggressive stance in internatonal waters, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will conduct four concentrated military drills across three major Chinese sea regions in the coming days, state-run Global Times reported.

Chinese link: Former CIA officer arrested and charged with espionage

Washignton: Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on Aug. 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

China: Public washroom constructed on razed mosque site in Xinjiang

Xinjiang: Showing the mistreatment carried towards religious minorities in China, a public toilet has been erected on the site of a demolished mosque in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi) city, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), media reports said on Tuesday.

Chinese invasion drill: Taiwan's Marine 'Iron Force' sent to Dongsha Islands

Beijing: Amid COVID-19 pandemic when China has allegedly taken up an aggressive stance, Taiwan's military has dispatched more Marines to the Dongsha Islands which Beijing is planning to invade, media reports said.

China using tech as tool to monitor citizens: Reports

Washington: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committed to the production and use of technology which is going to control and serveil the citizens, as per congressional commission of the US.

China’s party-state has become considerably more assertive in a number of domains: Think Tanks

Washington: The world is confronting unique changes in relations among the United States, Europe, and China, which have now been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, top US and European think tanks have said.

China tampering with the natural flow cycle of the Mekong River to leave millions starving, feel experts

Beijing: Experts believe that China's tampering with the natural flow cycle of the Mekong River, which is considered the world’s most productive freshwater fishery, is leaving thousands of people living in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam starved.

China asks Maldives to pay up ‘private loan’: Reports

Male: Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih and his government is not only battling COVID-19 outbreak in the nation but the short, medium and long-term fallouts, with China asking the Maldivian state to repay at least an instalment of a massive loan granted to a local resort owner.

Chinese govt sponsors rape of Uyghur women through forced marriage, allege activists

Hit by sex-ratio trouble, the Chinese government is allegedly getting involved in the 'forced marriage' game by advertising marriages to Uyghur women and girls to attract men into the Xinjiang or East Turkistan region of China.

South China Sea dispute: US signs MoU to support Vietnamese fishermen

Chinese incursions: US pledges to help Japan

Tokyo: The US has said it is ready to help Japan in tackling Chinese incursions in the waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands, a senior commander of American forces in Japan said.

Xinjiang is another Bangladesh waiting to happen, says activist Lily Harding

New York: Activist Lily Harding feels that Xinjiang region in China is likely to become another Bangladesh (read get liberation like Bangladesh got in 1971) as the people of the area dread Chinese Communist Party control and yearn for a stable democratic republic.

Australia now joins US in declaring China's claims in South China Sea as 'illegal'

Sydney/Beijing: In a move, which might further deteriorate relations with China, Australia has backed the US in declaring Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea to be illegal.

China's Wuhan lab operating 'covert operations' in Pakistan, creating "anthrax-like" pathogens: Report

With the world still battling COVID-19 outbreak, Pakistan and China have entered a secret three-year deal to expand potential bio-warfare capabilities, including running several research projects related to the deadly agent anthrax, media reports said.