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BEIJING (Global Times): US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin kicked off his three-day visit to India on Friday (March 19), just a week after the first summit of the Quad, an informal security grouping consisting of the US, Japan, Australia, and India. Austin is the first US official from the Joe Biden administration to visit India Austin called the India-US relationship a "stronghold of free and open Indo-Pacific region." This displays the great importance the Biden administration has attached to India and its intent to reinforce bilateral ties with India. In contrast to the US-Japan joint press statement issued on March 16, the joint remarks between Austin and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh on Saturday did not mention China. Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times on Sunday that just as many major powers, India tries to avoid taking sides between China and the US, whose competition ... » Learn More about Difficult for India to fall for US pressure over China: Global Times

Biden comes out shooting at Russia, China and the Philippines all in the last two weeks.  We no longer need to speculate how Biden will act at least in the short term.  What is the US trying to do? A chess game’s first move sets the tone of the game, but there is no telling what the tactic really is — just as a movie’s first scene can either divert from or lead to a predictable outcome as circumstances and characters unfold. Openings are always studied by good players. What are these aggressive opening moves by the US in the Russian, Chinese and Philippine chess boards? Is Russia’s Putin a killer, as accused by Biden in an interview?  He followed it up with “Russia will soon pay a price.”  Some analysts attribute Biden’s hostility possibly to the suspicion that Russia had something to do with the expose that Biden’s son Hunter had been receiving payments from Ukraine’s oil company, and family business partners Bobulinski and Cooney coming out to show corporate communications to ... » Learn More about China to US: What ‘rule-based’ order?

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin's visit to India last week, his first foreign visit after assuming office, was preceded by the first "Quad" summit. Austin's visit will be followed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to India to herald the United Kingdom's post-Brexit foreign policy to be centred around the Indo-Pacific. Together these events not just endorse but also reflect India's intensifying engagement with the United States-led Indo-Pacific strategy. Among other issues, China-India border tensions in 2020 are cited as the reason for the accelerating drift in India's worldview which otherwise remains woven around its twin doctrines of "multi-alignment" and "strategic autonomy" - new forms of its historic nonalignment policy. Understandably, these events have caused concerns among China's foreign policy analysts, especially among its India watchers. However, recent Sino-Indian military disengagements on the border have raised ... » Learn More about Putting Sino-Indian ties back on track: China Daily contributor

MUMBAI (REUTERS) - China's ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a filing seen by Reuters. ByteDance in January reduced its Indian workforce after New Delhi maintained a ban on its popular video app TikTok, imposed last year after a border clash between India and China. Beijing has repeatedly criticised India over that ban and those of other Chinese apps. An Indian tax intelligence unit in mid-March ordered HSBC and Citibank in Mumbai to freeze bank accounts of ByteDance India as it probed some of the unit's financial dealings. ByteDance has challenged the freeze on the four accounts in a Mumbai court. None of ByteDance India's employees have been paid their March salaries due to the account freeze, said two people familiar with the matter. The company told the court it has a workforce of 1,335, including outsourced personnel. In the ... » Learn More about ByteDance says India’s freeze on bank accounts is harassment: Court filing

Kontan.co.id India and China, the two largest suppliers of pharmaceutical raw materials to Indonesia, look likely to be the biggest winners from the government'€™s sixth economic package, which is aimed at simplifying permits for the importation of raw materials for drug manufacturers. '€œMost of our raw materials are imported from China and India,'€ said Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) chairman Roy Alexander Sparringa in a text message to Tempo.co on Saturday, adding that the US and Europe were the largest and second-largest exporters of medicine to the Indonesian market. As previously announced, the government has eased drug-related imports by providing legal assurance of simpler permits issued by BPOM. The import license previously acquired through a transactional mechanism will be shifted to a periodical one, in a bid to trim the number of permits needed in the import sector. The business community gladly welcomed the new policy, saying the measures were '€œin ... » Learn More about India, China to benefit from latest economy package

One week ago, the Quad nations met in their first leader-level summit and emerged with pledges to work together on vaccines, supply chains and technology. China was not mentioned but it looms large both as a threat and an opportunity for all four – the US, Japan, India and Australia. How will the Quad engage China? Quad summit underscores Biden administration's focus on Asia Quad countries to deliver 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses | Asian Insider EP64 The discordant start to the first high-level US-China meeting on President Joe Biden's watch - on Thursday (March 18) afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska - during which top diplomats from both sides lectured each other in public, will only serve to reinforce the underlying rationale of the Quad: China's increasing assertiveness. The March 12 summit of the Quad - bringing together the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US - was notable for the announcement that it will catalyse the delivery of one billion vaccine doses ... » Learn More about How Quad nations US, Japan, India and Australia are squaring up to China

SEOUL (AP): America’s top diplomat on Thursday (March 18) pressed China to use its "tremendous influence” to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme, hours after the North said it will ignore US offers to resume negotiations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke at the end of high-profile security talks in Seoul, which included Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean foreign and defence ministers. "Beijing has an interest, a clear self-interest in helping to pursue denuclearisation of (North Korea) because it is a source of instability. It is a source of danger and obviously a threat to us and our partners,” Blinken told a news conference. He said Beijing has "a critical role to play” to persuade North Korea to denuclearise because most of the North’s external trade goes through China. China, the North’s last major ally and biggest aid benefactor, has long been suspected of avoiding completely implementing sanctions on the North. Some observers say ... » Learn More about Blinken urges China to convince N.Korea to denuclearise

SINGAPORE: The run-up to the US-China meeting already foreshadowed the challenges that the actual bilateral discussions in Anchorage would encounter. In fact, the two sides could not agree on how to call it. For the US, it was a meeting to communicate positions to the other side. For China, it was a “high-level strategic dialogue”, a continuation from where the countries had left off before Trump entered the White House. Tensions spilled over in public, in the first session, when under the eye of cameras from all over the world, the US and China had what in diplomatic terms can only be described as frosty . US Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened with criticising China for actions that “threaten the rule based order that maintains global stability.” State Council member Yang Yiechi replied: “We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world.” READ: Commentary: Joe ... » Learn More about Commentary: After Alaska, age of selective engagement in US-China relations begins

SINGAPORE - Even as the United States and China compete strategically, the two major powers must find a way to manage tensions and develop a framework for cooperation, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. Speaking at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference on the topic "Will Asia emerge stronger in a post-Covid-19 world?" on Monday (March 22), Mr Heng said a stable US-China relationship is important to the global commons. While the Biden administration will bring a more predictable approach to the world's most critical bilateral relationship, the US and China will continue to be strategic competitors, he said. "I am glad that both sides have acknowledged that there are areas that they could work together on, despite the competitive tenor of their relationship." He called the first high-level, face-to-face meeting between both countries under the Biden presidency last week "a step in the right direction". At the start of what Washington called "tough and direct" ... » Learn More about Asean should focus on own interests if US-China tensions escalate: DPM Heng

China and Russia on Tuesday confirmed that they will boost cooperation to counter attempts by the United States to build a group aimed at containing their military strength and human rights abuses. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov also urged the administration of US President Joe Biden not to meddle in their nations' internal affairs, during their two-day face-two-face meeting in China's southern city of Guilin. Their agreement came after the so-called Quad, comprising the United States, Japan, India and Australia, held their first summit, online, on March 12. Wang and Lavrov indicated their eagerness to bolster relations among the traditionally friendly nations of China, Russia and North Korea in a bid to resist political pressure from the Biden administration launched in January. At a joint press conference on Tuesday following his meeting with Lavrov, Wang lambasted coordinated sanctions by the European Union, Britain, Canada and the ... » Learn More about China, Russia vow to boost cooperation to counter US challenge