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After Pakistan announced its preliminary investigation results Thursday that the Pakistani Taliban was responsible for the Dasu terror attack that killed nine Chinese on July 14, and pointed at Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies involved, the truth seems to start to surface.
By emphasizing unity of jointly weathering COVID-19 pandemic, and boosting economic recovery and cooperation on international and regional issues, the BRICS Foreign Ministers virtual meeting on Tuesday was seen by observers as sending a strong signal of bloc members desire to uphold multilateralism, and deterrence to countries like the US that tried to fragment the organization and sow discord among the BRICS members.
Mired by a devastating COVID-19 outbreak, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has spent the past week in the US, holding talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials, in an attempt to seek help over vaccines. However, Chinese observers are not optimistic about gains from the visit, calling US promises likely
Wastewater dumping reveals Japan s aggressiveness hidden behind a smoke screen of politeness
Wang Wenwen Published: Apr 16, 2021 01:01 AM
South Korean environmental activists wearing protective clothing and a mask (right) of Japan s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga hold pictures of fish with radioactivity warning signs during a protest against Japan s decision on releasing Fukushima wastewater, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on April 13. Photo: VCG
Japan is consuming its reputation as an economic and cultural powerhouse it has strived hard to achieve since the end of World War II, and its efforts to become a political major power and normal country will be questioned strongly by the international community, especially by neighboring countries, thanks to its decision this week to dump wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.