Tag: Asia Pacific
G7 summit: the sound of boots invites itself to the martyr city of Hiroshima
The city of Hiroshima hosts the G7 summit with the slim hope that its calls for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons will be heard, in a general context…
War in Ukraine: who is Li Hui, the special representative sent by China?
The symbol is not insignificant: as the preparation for a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the spring intensifies, Beijing sends a senior diplomat to play the role of ambassador and mediator with…
India: before the general elections, Modi cleans up his opponents
“I am paying the price for telling the truth!” exclaims Rahul Gandhi, the main figure of the Indian opposition. On April 22, under the eye of the cameras, he was…
Visit of a Chinese special representative to Ukraine and Russia
A Chinese government envoy will visit Ukraine and Russia next week to try to negotiate an end to the war, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday (May 12th). Beijing’s…
China-US talks resume at high level, a first since the balloon affair
Three months after the destruction of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the United States, dialogue resumes between Beijing and Washington. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister…
ASEAN fails to advance Burma peace plan
Same actors, same scenario: ASEAN unable to agree on the Burmese file. On the last day of its regional summit, the organization of Southeast Asian countries made no progress on…
Kidnapping, drugs and money laundering… Chinese mafias attack Thailand
On March 28, a 22-year-old Chinese student in Bangkok was kidnapped by three compatriots who demanded a ransom from her family living in China. The case takes a tragic turn…
deadly inter-ethnic clashes in Manipur state
Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeastern India that is believed to have left at least 54 people dead, the army said on Sunday (May 7th). Unrest broke…
Xinjiang, a laboratory for the high-tech tracking of Uyghurs
In the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China has taken mass surveillance to the extreme. In a new investigation, the NGO Human Rights Watch illustrates how, thanks to sophisticated technologies, the police…
Constitution, diplomacy, Mauriac… Letter from the readers of L’Express
Macron in China Jean-Michel Benard, Chatillon (Hauts-de-Seine) I was delighted to read the article on “Gribouille’s diplomacy” as I was surprised by the content of the President of the Republic’s…