Category: Conflict

Pakistan will set up a special protection unit to protect Chinese nationals in the country. The announcement follows a meeting between Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi with China’s Minister of Public Security, Wang Xiaohong, at the headquarters of China’s Ministry of Public Security in Beijing. ...

Indonesia’s planned tariff deal with the United States risks drawing pressure from China, if Jakarta grants Washington terms not extended elsewhere, an Indonesian economist warned, as the agreement nears signing. “China might use this as a basis to demand the same ...

Thailand accused Cambodia of violating a ten-day truce, following the alleged firing of mortar rounds across the border. The incident left one Thai soldier injured. The Thai military later quoted Cambodian counterparts saying “the incident was caused by an operational ...

By Cobus van Staden, CGSP Head of Research, China has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s incursion into Venezuela and its detention of President Nicolás Maduro.  During his regular press conference on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson ...

The U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Friday prompted a lively discussion online among many of the leading China analysts in the U.S. and Europe over how Beijing might respond. Below are highlights from ...

Over the weekend, the Chinese government steadily intensified its denunciations of the United States over the recent military intervention in Venezuela and the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday blasted Washington for violating Venezuela's sovereignty and said ...

China condemned the U.S. for what it called a forcible seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after U.S. strikes in Venezuela, demanding his release and warning against “world judge” behavior. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said no country should act ...

Cambodia and Thailand said they would focus on consolidating a ceasefire and restoring normal exchanges after talks in southwestern Yunnan on Sunday and Monday, according to a joint communiqué. China said it hosted senior Cambodian and Thai diplomats and military ...

China said it will host talks in Yunnan after Cambodia and Thailand agreed to an immediate ceasefire along their disputed border, stepping in as the two neighbors sought to halt weeks of fighting under a joint statement that took effect at noon local time on Saturday. ...

Myanmar's military-run elections are being pilloried abroad and shunned at home, but neighboring China has emerged as an enthusiastic backer of the pariah poll. International monitors have dismissed the vote starting Sunday as a charade to rebrand Myanmar's military rule since ...

Thailand and Cambodia will hold ceasefire talks on Wednesday, Dec. 24 under an existing joint border framework, following an ASEAN special foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur. In a chair’s statement, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations said ministers ...

A Chinese national was wounded by Thai military shelling into Cambodia on Monday, Phnom Penh's interior ministry said, as the Southeast Asian neighbors waged deadly border clashes. Thai forces fired "artillery shells into civilian areas" of Cambodia's border province of Battambang, ...