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Starting a thread on the upcoming 2024 elections and all antics related to it Today RG starts his new yatra I doubt it will result in electoral gains of any consequence...

This is quite a read from CNN In a nutshell - Apparently Chinese scamsters lure Indians and Asians to Thailand for jobs. From there, they are driven across the border to Myanmar where their passport is taken away and they face abuse while being forced to scam people in the West out of huge...

Can't believe it's been 15 years. I flew our from JFK on 9/9 and then this happened a few years later when I was en route to a pub called Henry Thams which was just a few hundred meters from the Taj. I started getting calls to turn around but I thought it's an exaggeration so I pulled over and...

Now this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/chinese-ambassador-warns-british-mps-against-visiting-taiwan China’s UK ambassador has urged British politicians not to “dance to the tune of the United States” and vowed “severe consequences” should MPs set foot in Taiwan. Speaking at a...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/fair-weather-ally-how-sri-lanka-pakistan-fell-into-chinese-debt-trap/articleshow/93236949.cms TOI no longer allows copying and pasting so click on link From exacerbating the bankruptcy of Sri Lanka to leaving Pakistan with staggering...

Michelle Bachelet has said wasn’t able to speak to any detained Uyghurs or their families during her controversial visit to Xinjiang, and was accompanied by government officials while in the region. The UN human rights chief, who this week announced she would not be seeking another term, told a...

Exposes the face of the brutal Chinese regime https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8df450b3-5d6d-4ed8-bdcc-bd99137eadc3 The highly coercive and potentially lethal systems of control used against minority groups in China’s internment camps have been revealed in a giant cache of secret...

Link https://m.timesofindia.com/world/south-asia/china-backed-projects-testament-to-sri-lankas-mismanagement/articleshow/91468692.cms critics have already sounded off on the project becoming a "hidden debt trap". - Biggest bilateral lender - China is the government's biggest bilateral lender...

Link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60288007 A Nepalese government report leaked to the BBC accuses China of encroaching into Nepal along the two countries' shared border. It is the first time there have been official claims from Nepal of Chinese interference in its territory. The report...

Chinese citizens running out of food, essentials amid harsh Covid-19 curbs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/chinese-citizens-running-out-of-food-essentials-amid-harsh-covid-19-curbs/articleshow/89009375.cms China's heavy-handed and draconian approach to handling Covid-19...

Link https://tfiglobalnews.com/2022/01/05/china-forces-tibetan-monks-to-watch-as-it-destroys-buddha-statue/ The extent to which Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party are willing to go to belittle the Tibetian people looks similar to the medieval marauding armies who went on plundering...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/real-estate/pakistan-announces-permanent-residency-scheme-for-rich-foreign-nationals-101642234431834.html Pakistan has decided to offer a permanent residency scheme for wealthy foreign nationals, including Sikhs living in the US and Canada, Afghans and Chinese...

Rows upon rows of metal boxes to house suspected COVID-19 patients, lines of buses taking people to quarantine camps were seen in a set of nightmarish social media videos from China. The scenes, which seemed straight out of a dystopian movie, are among the several strict preventive measures the...

Link https://carbuntracy.com/2022/01/06/did-ccp-use-chinese-actors-to-stage-flag-ceremony-at-galwan/ Chinese flag hoisting ceremony at Galwan on 01 January 2022 gathered huge attention throughout the world. However, some users on Chinese social media platform Weibo have indicated that CCP...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/06/china/xian-lockdown-zero-covid-intl-hnk/index.html (CNN)As the locked down Chinese city of Xi'an claimed victory this week in its fight to contain the community spread of Covid-19, harrowing tales of loss and despair have emerged on social media --...

link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59764029 A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday. The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate the hundreds - possibly thousands - of pro-democracy protesters killed...

Link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59692826 The US Congress has passed a bill that requires companies to prove that goods imported from China's Xinjiang region were not produced with forced labour. The US has accused China of genocide in its repression of the predominantly Muslim...

The Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to up to 14 months in prison for organising, taking part in and inciting participation in a banned vigil last year for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The former British colony...

Link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59573500 Australia has said it will join the US in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the decision was in response to "human rights abuses" in China's Xinjiang province and "many other...

When tennis star Peng Shuai launched her explosive #MeToo accusation against a former Communist Party leader earlier this month, the Chinese government responded in typical fashion -- by muffling her with blanket censorship. Now, more than two weeks on, Beijing is facing a storm of its own...