China’s top spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), has recently intensified its public outreach to alert Chinese citizens to the pervasive threat of foreign espionage. This comes amid an increase in public activities, including the release of a dramatic video on National Security Education Day, illustrating the stealth and variety of tactics used […]
BEIJING — China has created new independent People’s Liberation Army units for information, space and cyber operations in its most sweeping military reorganization in nearly a decade. The old Strategic Support Force was broken up and replaced with the three new arms, one of which, the Information Support Force, is responsible for gathering and analyzing […]
Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are expected to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government to enact emergency response plans on Sunday to protect more than 127 million people. Calling the situation “grim”, local weather officials said sections of rivers and tributaries at the Xijiang and Beijiang basins are hitting water levels […]
In a startling revelation, scientists have found that numerous cities in China are gradually sinking into the earth. This phenomenon, known as land subsidence, has been observed in nearly half of China’s major cities, according to a comprehensive study conducted by over 50 Chinese scientists.Land subsidence is the gradual settling or sudden sinking of the […]
Antony Blinken. Photo:AFP Before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming visit to China, US officials adopted their usual tactic of using harsh language to apply pressure on China, expressing so-called strong concerns about China’s support for Russia and the Taiwan question. Chinese observers stated that the recent frequent visits of Blinken and a string […]
NEW DELHI: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), originally established to ease border tensions and combat the “three evils” of terrorism, separatism, and extremism, is refocusing its counterterrorism efforts in light of recent deadly attacks in member states, including Russia and Pakistan. These incidents have ignited a fierce determination among member countries to strengthen their joint […]
If passed by the US Senate and then signed by President Joe Biden, this bill marks a potential historical milestone as the first instance of the US government enacting a law to shut down an entire social media platform. The Senate is slated to cast its vote on the bill in the upcoming week, and […]
ISLAMABAD: US has imposed sanctions on three Chinese and one Belarus company over alleged supply of inputs for Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme. The move, Washington stressed, is intended not to punish but to bring about a “positive change in behaviour”.According to a US State Department announcement on Friday, the four firms are Belarus’s Minsk Wheel […]