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Restricting citizens’ entry-exit to targeting academia, China grows more authoritarian

China stopped issuing new passports for non-essential travel in 2021. Citizens have to come up with fake job offers to get a new passport.

In China, a growing pressure to find a scapegoat for disastrous Covid handling in Shanghai

CCP wants to quickly develop remote regions near Arunachal Pradesh border. In Shanghai & Beijing, Covid testing could cost up to $257 billion.

Communist Xi explains capital’s benefits as Chinese executives speak up on economic crisis

Business leaders now openly say that Beijing’s zero-Covid policies are slowly destroying the economy. It is becoming difficult for many to justify Xi’s ‘common prosperity’ campaign.

Xi Jinping races to secure third term, jails corrupt officials, clamps down on social media

With no clear successor to Xi, securing the next term is likely to be successful. Meanwhile, a mysterious foreigner has fallen from the sky in Anghui.

China’s cover-up of Covid and PLA deaths isn’t working. Neither are the social media bans

Despite tensions at the border, India-China trade grew, and social media users discovered what Indian food like seekh kebab and biryani looks like.

Shanghai residents can’t post about ‘food crisis’ and China fears US may nuke it some day

Almost 26 million residents of Shanghai have been put under a lockdown amid an emerging food crisis. Even billionaire Kathy Xu Xin has struggled to buy milk and bread.

PLA soldiers ‘mastering’ Hindi and Chinese court jails man for disrespecting Galwan ‘martyr’

During foreign minister Wang Yi’s recent visit to Delhi, there was speculation that China might be willing to step back on its position in Eastern Ladakh. That seems unlikely now.

China is all praise for Arnab Goswami as ‘angry host’ trends on Weibo

Goswami exchanging barbs with a US professor has been viewed 4.7 million times on Weibo.

Xi’s China isn’t just caught up with Ukraine, Taiwan. Someone’s disrupting Russia ties too

Making matters tough for President Xi Jinping is the difference of opinion within the Chinese government on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Covid rising in China, but Xi busy colluding with Russia against US—and looking at Taiwan

Premier Li Keqiang stepped down, Shanghai and Jilin are going under lockdown due to the Covid surge, but Xi has other issues on his mind.

On Camera

Afzalgunj to Begum Bazar—Hyderabad’s markets don’t look ‘nawabi’. Marwaris, Gujjus built them

Some of Hyderabad’s oldest jewellery and perfume stores—many dating back to the Nizam era—are run by Marwari, Gujrati, and Jain families.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?