Canberra: Given the Chinese interference in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia has announced an ambitious scheme named ‘Step Up To Pacific’. Under the scheme, independent financial institutions would be built to provide financial assistance to the countries in the Pacific Ocean region, and a provision of $3 billion has been made for the purpose. Prime Minister […]
Beijing: There is tension raging between the United States and China over the trade war and the South China Sea. In this situation, China demonstrated a hypersonic missile capable of destroying a warship in a single strike. It seems to have issued a warning to the United States with its statement that these cruise missiles […]
Washington: The United States has opened a new front against the ambitious scheme, One Belt One Road (OBOR) of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, which is already receiving jolts one after the other. US President Donald Trump signed the ‘Build Act 2018’ and announced the formation of the US International Development Finance Corporation. This is […]
Beijing: China has started challenging the United States’ dominance in the defence equipment manufacturing in the Asia-Pacific sector. Pentagon, the US military headquarter has expressed concern about this in a recently published report. The US study groups have said that there is an increase in demand for Chinese missile-equipped drones from the Gulf and African […]
Washington: The United States will have a show of Strength in the South China Sea in the next week as a retaliation of the dangerously close sailing of the Chinese destroyer to a US warship. The United States will remind China of its military might, by organising serial exercises from South China Sea to the […]
London/Haig/Canberra: The spiteful cyber-attacks carried out by GRU, a part of the Russian military, on institutions and agencies from different parts of the world are completely unacceptable, was the crushing criticism by the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Australia. The three countries also warned that a fitting reply will be given to the attacks on the […]
Washington/Seoul: A free trade agreement boosting the import of US cars, trucks and medicine into South Korea and easing the procedures for the same, was signed on Monday. The agreement gains significance as it is the first bilateral agreement signed by President Trump, since he came to power. President Trump expressed confidence that both the […]
Washington: ‘China is making strong attempts to create its influence in Africa, Latin America, Pacific Islands and South Asia, outside its own sector. But the CIA is keeping a close eye on the Chinese movements,’ warned CIA Director, Gina Haspel. The CIA Director also accused that China is making efforts to reduce the influence of […]
London/Shanghai: Last week, US President, Donald Trump threatened to tax Chinese imports worth $200 billion. Severe repercussions of this threat are being felt in the international economy and a major decline was seen in the European and Asian stock markets including China. The Chinese stock market was hit the most and the index crashed to […]
Tokyo/Washington: Japan and the United States once again posed a direct challenge to the increasing Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. On Friday, the Japanese and US navy conducted joint war exercises in the South China Sea. Prior to the war exercises, US B-52 bombers patrolled the South China Sea. The sequence of events […]