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DHARAMSALA, 15 April: Amid growing tension between the Philippines and China over the presence of Chinese maritime militia vessels from the West Philippine Sea, the former’s largest chamber of commerce and other business groups have joined the growing calls on China to “withdraw vessels and to stop acting like the colonisers.

DHARAMSALA, 9 April:  The US has announced sanctions against “seven Chinese supercomputing entities” for “conducting activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the US.”

DHARAMSALA, 7 April: The US State Department has declared that the US and its allies are weighing a joint boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

DHARAMSALA, 2 April: Seven leading pro-democracy advocates from Hong Kong, including the island’s father of democracy, Martin Lee was convicted for organizing and participating in an “unauthorised march” during anti-government protests in 2019 as the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing continues to crack down on dissent.

DHARAMSALA, 1 April: NASA has become the latest on the list to run afoul of politics and nationalist sentiment in China after it listed Taiwan as a separate country on its website.

DHARAMSALA, 31 March: To revive the World Trade Organization(WTO), Britain’s international trade secretary has urged the world to “get tough on China,” and modernise the WTO that she says is “stuck in the 1990s.”

DHARAMSALA, 31 March: As many as 14 countries have heavily criticised the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report on the origins of Covid-19 and concurred that the investigation was “significantly delayed  and lacked access to complete, original data and samples.”

DHARAMSALA, 19 March: Tufts University(TU), a “premier university “ in the US has severed its ties with China’s controversial Confucius Institute(CI) amidst growing scrutiny over the latter across the world.

DHARAMSALA, 18 March:  The European Union has agreed to sanction Chinese officials over human rights abuses for the first time in three decades, Reuters reported.

DHARAMSALA, 17 March: The US has announced sanctions against 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials for contributing to the ongoing erosion of Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy.