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DHARAMSALA, 31 Aug: Despite China’s sharp criticism, a delegation headed by the Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil landed in Taiwan on Sunday for a six-day visit — the highest-level exchange between the two countries to cement economic and cultural ties.

DHARAMSALA, 31 Aug: Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the top brass of the Chinese Communist Party to build a “new modern socialist” Tibet with an “impregnable wall” against separatism in the Chinese occupied Tibet and the “sinicisation” of the Tibetan Buddhism among others.

DHARAMSALA, 27 Aug: A Chinese civil rights activist has stated that the Chinese Communist Party “is an enemy of humanity.”

DHARAMSALA, 27 Aug: A Chinese diplomat has been elected as a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), an independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention to hear and settle maritime disputes.

DHARAMSALA, 25 Aug: The Himachal Pradesh police have detained two persons, a Chinese woman and a Tibetan man, for their alleged connection with Charlie Peng, a suspected Chinese spy rearrested by the Income Tax(IT) Department allegedly for ‘running a hawala network for Chinese companies while out on bail.

DHARAMSALA, 24 Aug: India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat has said that India has ‘military option’ to deal with Chinese transgressions if talks between the two armies and the diplomatic option fail to yield any results.

DHARAMSALA, 20 Aug: The US has suspended or terminated its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as it declared that the controversial national security law Chinna imposed on Hong Kong had crushed the freedoms of the people of Hong Kong.

DHARAMSALA, 18 Aug: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer has been arrested and charged with selling ‘highly classified’ information to Chinese intelligence officers for over a decade, the US Justice Department has announced.