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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicLijian Zhao

Topic: Lijian Zhao

China finally releases Covid data but citizens don’t believe it’s just 60,000 deaths

Aadil Brar -
‘Wolf warrior’ diplomat Zhao Lijian was removed as the foreign ministry spokesperson and moved to the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs.

What shunting ‘wolf warrior’ Zhao out of foreign ministry could mean for Chinese diplomacy

Raghav Bikhchandani -
Known for combative approach, foreign ministry spokesperson was moved to Dept of Boundary & Ocean Affairs. Two professors assert China will not make major shift in its policies.

Hope first Quad summit is ‘conducive to regional peace, stability & prosperity’, says China

K J M Varma -
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said China believes any regional cooperation architecture should follow the principle of peaceful development and win-win cooperation.

Maverick Chinese diplomat who fell in love with Pakistan is going home

Nayanima Basu -
Lijian Zhao, who is on his way back to Beijing after a four-year stint, was recently in news for a Twitter spat with former US diplomat Susan Rice.

A Chinese diplomat in Pakistan is setting Twitter on fire with his brashness

Sanya Dhingra -
Lijian Zhao not only parrots Beijing’s official position on diplomatic issues on Twitter, but also Islamabad’s – and with even more gusto.

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Opinion

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Stela Dey -
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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