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Amid the stand-off and high tension across the Line of Actual Control, prominent Indian strategic experts have explored possible options that India can pursue to send strong messages to Beijing. Law and Society Alliance and Defense Capital jointly organised a webinar on the topic "Revisiting 'One China' policy: Economic and…

By Asim Kashgarian June 10, 2020 A Chinese government crackdown on the minority Muslims in Xinjiang has taken a toll on the community's religious staff with the imams being most vulnerable to persecution, according to Uighur victims' families and scholars. 'Imam' is a title in Islam given to a religious…

Home / India News / Troop movements halted at India-China standoff points but defences are up deep inside There hasn’t been any activity at the four standoff points along the Line of Actual Control after Indian and Chinese military commanders held a 7-hour-long ice-breaking meeting over the weekend, people familiar…

Representational image of railway tracks. PHOTO: REUTERS Pakistan Railways Mainline-I Project the lone strategic project of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) cleared its first hurdle on S… Read More

By Joshua Lipes 2020-06-05 -- China's government has destroyed much of Kashgar's Old City in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) precisely because of its cultural significance for Uyghurs, according to a new report, which called the campaign key to understanding how Beijing seeks to control the ethnic group. In…

(This story originally appeared in on Jun 02, 2020)NEW DELHI: There has been no fresh military build-up by China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, said official sources on Monday, even as the Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army held another round of talks in a…

New Delhi: Darbuk-Shayok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DS-DBO), Rohtang tunnel and an alternate access to Leh connecting Manali  and Zanskar Valley are the key strategic roads being built by the Border Road Organisation in the Ladakh sector. India has been catching up at building in road infrastructure at the line of actual…

GUANGZHOU, China, June 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The cities of Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu together with Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in the southern part of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region are part of the Three Regions and Three Prefectures ("TRTP") defined as areas of extreme poverty in China. The regions and…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, It would be counter-productive for BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization members India and China to come to blows on account of some extremely remote – albeit strategically important – snowy mountain passes.   But when one looks at the 3,488-kilometer-long Line of…

Home / India News / No end to tense Ladakh standoff in sight as India, China hold ground There has been no change in the ground situation or lowering of guard by either sides at the four standoff points between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh sector’s Galwan valley and…