Ousted Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Thailand for temporary stay
Mr Rajapaksa arrived in Bangkok on the same day that his visa in Singapore expired.
Geopolitics
Beijing announces new Rs15 billion aid to Nepal
This new grant is additional to the grant announced by the Chinese President Xi Jinping to Nepal in October, 2019.
Seoul dismisses Beijing’s claim, says THAAD is Korea’s means of self-defense
China has strongly opposed the deployment, saying that Korea’s US-made defense system undermines its security.
China to ‘normalize’ just-ended military drills around Taiwan
China’s military had conducted exercises in waters and airspace around Taiwan in response to US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
Indian companies swapping dollar for Asian currencies to buy Russian coal
India has aggressively stepped up purchases of Russian oil and coal since the war in Ukraine began.
Dangerous fatalism about a Sino-US war
In the past, a US-China war over Taiwan seemed like a real possibility - but no more than that.
South Korea’s Yoon stumbles in endeavor to improve China ties
President Yoon has every reason to try to improve ties with China 30 years after formal relations were established between the two former adversaries.
Philippines cancels Russia helicopter deal over US sanctions
Philippine ambassador to Washington Jose Romualdez said the decision to cancel was triggered by "the Ukrainian war".
New US chip subsidy bill poses threat to global economy: Chinese trade associations
The bill stipulates a series of measures so as to encourage companies to build factories in the US.
China releases White Paper on Taiwan, warns it will not tolerate Taiwan ‘separatists’
Provocations by “separatist elements or external forces” that cross its red lines would force Beijing to take “drastic measures”, it said in a government White Paper.