Chinese President Xi Jinping in his New Year's Eve speech said these issues remained at ‘forefront’ of his mind & that his govt would ‘deliver a better life’ for the Chinese people.
Xi said preference was to retake Taiwan peacefully & no time frame was set. This comes amid ‘strategic ambiguity’ by US on Taiwan, which is set to hold presidential polls in January.
While China portrayed the Xi-Biden summit as a victory, the gains seem to favour the US—the most pivotal being the reinstatement of military-to-military communication.
Marcos said he voiced concern over South China Sea incidents between Chinese and Philippine vessels, including one collision. He said he also raised plight of Filipino fishermen.
US president Joe Biden & his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held ‘most constructive discussions’ at summit amid backdrop of trade war & ties between the 2 nations reaching nadir in decades.
An agreement to keep AI out of nuclear weapons control systems will be a solid step forward, even if months of discussions are needed to agree on how it will be implemented & verified.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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