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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicChina Balloon spy

Topic: China Balloon spy

China cracks down on fake news, foreign media as Wang Yi calls US balloon saga ‘hysterical’

Wang Yi, director of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, is visiting France, Italy, Hungary & Russia from 14-22 February to fix damaged bilateral ties.

At Munich Security Conference, China slams US for ‘hysterical’ response to spy balloon

China's top diplomat Wang Yi accuses US of violating global security norms. US V-P Kamala Harris shoots back, calls Beijing's ties with Moscow 'troubling'.

Why you, yes you, needn’t worry about taxpayers’ money & Humpty Dumpty had a great (stock) fall

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The balloon that heightened tensions between US, China. Made Biden move an F-22 Raptor

Beijing wasn’t happy Blinken postponed his visit after the balloon incident. It played down his cancelled visit by announcing nothing had been planned by either side.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.