Day: May 21, 2025

China has reaffirmed its “ironclad” support for Pakistan while encouraging dialogue with India to ease tensions between the two South Asian neighbours following deadly clashes earlier this month. Advertisement Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks in a meeting with his visiting Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar in Beijing on Tuesday. “As an ironclad friend, China will, as always, firmly support Pakistan in safeguarding its national sovereignty and territorial integrity … and support Pakistan in resolutely combating terrorism,” Wang said, according to the Chinese foreign ministry statement. After India and Pakistan…

For the fifth straight year, more British businesses report that doing business in China has become increasingly difficult. And they are once again calling for a more favourable policy environment where “rules that are clear, fairly enforced and consistently applied”, according to the latest position paper by the British Chamber of Commerce in China. Advertisement As political disputes threaten to upend the global economic order, China also has an opportunity to distinguish itself if barriers can be removed, the chamber said. And despite the challenges they are facing, British firms…

Mainland Chinese forces held an amphibious landing drill in the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, as Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te celebrated his first year in office. Advertisement The People’s Liberation Army 73rd Group Army exercised tactics and skills of near-shore driving and landing operations with armoured amphibious vehicles on a beach on the southern Fujian coast, according to state broadcaster CCTV. “We are prepared for war at any second,” a soldier named Qian Bo was quoted as saying. “Our training has become more practical … We believe when the day…

Radioactive treatment is among the first-line therapies used to effectively target and destroy cancer cells. Advertisement But the same radiotherapy could also be a double-edged sword that ends up promoting the distant metastasis of tumours, a recent study has demonstrated. Radiation therapy is often used alone or in combination with surgery and chemotherapy to control the growth of localised cancer tumours. However, scientists in the United States have discovered that high doses of radiation could paradoxically lead to the growth of existing metastatic tumours, even when these tumours had not…