South Asia needs stronger regional cooperation because weather shocks, food prices and agricultural trade do not stop at national borders. Governments should share seasonal forecasts, river-basin information and climate-risk data, while strengthening coordination on flood warnings and drought preparedness.
Looking back, there is little reason for the Indian government to be proud of this episode. People’s trust was met with disruption whose full costs remain unreckoned and whose promised benefits have never received a convincing consolidated accounting. Indians rebuilt their livelihoods and moved on. Their resilience cannot absolve the government.
Lula’s re-election spared BRICS from an internal fracture at a moment when energy routes are contested and financial dependence carries higher costs. As Trump pressures countries back into Washington’s orbit, Lula’s Brazil keeps one of the few organized efforts toward currency diversification from stalling.
Trade cannot substitute for peace, and people-to-people relationships cannot resolve territorial disputes. But preserving economic and social channels of communication can prevent political disagreements from becoming a permanent condition of societal separation.
Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe, now on a visit to Bangladesh at a time the two nations are in discussion over COVID-19 vaccine cooperation, paid tributes to the nation’s founder and its first president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhaka on Tuesday
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe is into Sri Lanka Tuesday on an official three-day visit
China's state-run Sichuan Airlines has stopped all its cargo flights to India for the next 15 days, hurting the efforts of the private traders to source the oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies needed to treat the critical cases of COVID-19 even as China offered "support and assistance" to the country to battle the deadly-second wave of the infection, according to media reports
In the wake of uncertainty over getting purchased doses from India, Bangladesh has decided to join China’s COVID-19 vaccine storage facility for South Asia, bdnews24.com reported
Sri Lanka officials have asked a Chinese vessel that was carrying radioactive material to leave Hambantota port immediately, reported Newswire
The Chinese government has sent a final funding proposal for Pakistan’s $6.8 billion modern rail project, ML-1, to the Exim Bank of China, as per a report in The Express Tribune
As Bangladesh struggles to procure vaccines, Sinopharm, the Chinese drug firm, has offered to provide six million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines to the country, a report in The Daily Star said
Under attack from all sides over the controversial Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill, the Sri Lankan government defended the move, saying the city will not become a Chinese colony
Sri Lanka is expected to receive $500 million in dollar credit from the China Development Bank this month, according to a report in The Sunday Morning
The only way before the US and the world is to confront China in the economic, diplomatic, and military spheres, writes Ivaylo Valchev for South Asia Monitor
Pakistan and China have agreed to jointly safeguard peace and stability of the world, especially Asia, and strengthen cooperation on counter-terrorism and peacekeeping in the UN framework, according to a report in Dawn
China forcibly entered Tibet, then an independent country, a few decades back and violently suppressed the protest by the Tibetans
India hassaid it would like to see disengagement by Chinese troops in the remaining areas of Eastern Ladakh which would lead to restoration of peace with Beijing
Pakistan is still continuing cotton trade with China, especially from the controversial Xinjiang region of the country
The Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) has suspended sales tax registration of a Chinese energy company after it failed to produce purchase invoices, media reports said
