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Topic: China

China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Its significance lies in its rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative. China and India have fought a major war in the 60s and have disputes over the Aksai Chin and LAC, and tensions over the Indo-Pacific.

China is willing to continue to help war-torn Syria rebuild, regain regional status, says Xi

Joe Cash -
Citing flagship initiatives to build up infra along Silk Road & promoting China’s approach to global security, Xi extended support to Syria improving relations with other Arab nations.

Sports minister cancels China Asian Games trip to protest ‘discrimination’ against Arunachal players

ThePrint Team -
The three women players could not download their travel documents online, days before they were to leave for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.

China’s defence minister disappears, latest in the case of missing officials

Yew Lun Tian -
China's public face of the military as the defence minister, Li is under investigation over the corrupt procurement of military equipment.

Indo-Pacific army chiefs to meet in Delhi next week, conference ‘not aimed at China’

Smruti Deshpande -
Conference to be held alongside Indo-Pacific Armies Management Seminar and Senior Enlisted Leadership Forum. Army held curtain-raiser event Wednesday.

Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang removed from post after alleged affair, reports WSJ

Shubham Kalia -
The report said Qin was cooperating with the investigation, which was now focused on whether the affair had compromised China's national security.

G7 ministers rely on China to press Russia for complete withdrawal from Ukraine

Reuters -
The statement comes as China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, visits Russia for a four-day trip during which both nations are expected to pledge deeper political ties.

China’s third aircraft carrier is ready for the sea even as defence minister goes missing

Aadil Brar -
Photographs reveal that the sheds and the decks placed around aircraft carrier Fujian during its testing phase have now been removed.

Oil climbs on supply concerns, recovery in China demand

Florence Tan -
Brent crude futures rose 71 cents, or 0.8%, to $94.64 a barrel by 0622 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were at $91.55 a barrel, up 78 cents, or 0.9%.

Deliveries of Apple iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max delayed in China by a few weeks, reports Bloomberg

Yuvraj Malik -
Reporter Mark Gurman posted that Pro Max deliveries are delayed by 4-5 weeks and by 2-3 weeks for the Pro device.

Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu under investigation, being removed from post, say reports

Yew Lun Tian -
Li has missed meetings with Vietnamese & Singaporean defence leaders recently, according to sources. He was last seen in Beijing on 29 August.
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Asian NATO? Why Japan PM’s big new idea won’t shake up foreign policy

Abhishek Sharma -
One of the most difficult tasks for Shigeru Ishiba, apart from keeping together the divided LDP, will be implementing his foreign policy ideas—if he chooses to pursue them.

Modi’s ‘Billionaire Raj’ is making India more unequal. So, freebies are a necessity

India’s diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific has an economic hole. Fill it with trade, investment

Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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