Beijing (TIP): China on Friday hiked its defence budget to USD 209 billion, maintaining a single-digit growth for the sixth consecutive year with a 6.8 per cent increase in 2021. The budget hike was announced […]

BEIJING (TIP): China has become the first country to confer diplomatic status to a Taliban-nominated official as Afghanistan‘s Ambassador to Beijing, thereby formally recognising the Taliban-run administration as a legitimate government in Kabul. “As a […]

Beijing (TIP): As China’s ruling Communist Party gears up to celebrate its centenary year, it has revised rules for its 92 million members, stipulating that no public expression of dissent will be tolerated. But party […]