Muraleedharan Nair, writing in AICIS said that the primary aim of China setting up Confucius Institutes abroad is for pushing CPC's interests and executing its bidding, rather than promoting Chinese culture and the Mandarin language, its ostensible objectives.
Salami slicing and grey-zone tactics are China's regular modus operandi, but its actions are becoming ever more robust and blatant as China narrows Taiwan's room for manoeuvre and psychologically bludgeons it.
Giving details about the case, Thalduwa stated that detectives from the police computer crime division had yet to complete their investigations because they needed to examine a large number of electronic devices taken into custody alongside the suspects.
According to the AmCham China survey, 27 per cent of its members are considering countries other than China when making their investment decisions, mainly due to concerns about an uncertain policy environment in China.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has grown more militaristic, aggressive, and hostile, however, India will be one key to countering China, reported Washington Examiner.
The traders, under the auspices of a group called the Indigenous Capital Protection Association, have sued the government, protesting the influx of Chinese traders in Kenya.
Since the new administration assumed office last September, Ruto's several visits outside Africa have largely been to Western nations, including the US (twice), the UK, France, Belgium, and Germany.
The casualties among Chinese nationals in Pakistan are causing anxiety in the minds of Chinese companies and Xi Jinping's government. These targeted attacks will severely impede Chinese investments in Pakistan, creating tension between the two "brotherly" nations.
Indonesia is worried over the possibility of falling into a debt trap like Sri Lanka by China as the country has seen complaints about the decision to go with China over Japan to build a high-speed railway, reported Nikkei Asia.
However, since the start of the war on February 24, Xi has not spoken to Zelenskyy, despite the latter's repeated requests. And the "sound and stable" relationship they touted seems like a distant memory, reported NYT.
Macron will be accompanied by a delegation of more than 50 CEOs and meet with the French business community, but all eyes will be on how he and von der Leyen discuss the war in Ukraine with the Chinese leadership.
A senior Japanese company official in his 50s was detained in Beijing earlier this month for alleged violation of the country's law, Kyodo News reported, citing a source familiar with Japan-China relations said on Saturday.