Huawei’s founder says world can’t live without it

AFP | The founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei has hit back at US efforts to blacklist the company, saying defiantly that the world cannot...

Russia, Turkey, Iran hail US Syria withdrawal

AFP | The leaders of Russia, Turkey, and Iran hailed the planned US withdrawal from Syria as they met for talks Thursday on how to...

Sweeten the China-Pakistan free trade agreement

Ali Hassan | The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) recently sent a set of recommendations emphasizing the need for the government to focus on the ‘Make...

Venezuela: Another black eye for Chinese economic diplomacy

AFP | China and Venezuela seemed like natural bedfellows: one is the planet's top crude-oil importer and the other possesses the world's largest reserves. But...

Re-education camp: China rejects Turkish claim of Uighur Muslim’s death

News Analysis | Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying has strongly refuted that a 57-year-old Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit has died in the re-education camp...

Missing Uighurs’ kin demand ‘proof of life’ videos from China

AFP | Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on...

Afghan ex-mujahideen remember Soviet defeat in ‘graveyard of empires’

AFP | The last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahideen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and...

‘Tired of fighting’: 30 years ago, Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan

AFP | On February 15, 1989, crowds of stunned onlookers watched the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan over the Friendship Bridge -- defeated after a...

Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence – James M Dorsey

James M Dorsey | In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang....

China’s Xinjiang – a role model for Pakistan to develop Baluchistan – Jan Achakzai

Jan Achakzai | “My heart goes out to the people living in hardship,” said President Xi Jinping while stressing the twin goals of creating jobs...

Taliban say Moscow talks with Afghan politicians ‘very successful’

AFP | The Taliban on Wednesday hailed unprecedented talks with Afghan politicians as "very successful", despite disagreements over women's rights and the group's demand for...

Chinese hunger for ‘world’s smelliest fruit’ threatens Malaysian forests

AFP | Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of...