The Indonesian government has requested Alphabet’s Google and Apple to block the Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce provider Temu in their app stores. The aim is to prevent Indonesian users from downloading the app. With this step, the government seeks to protect small and medium-sized companies from cheap competition from China, said Communications Minister Budi Arie Setiadi, […]
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will presumably meet twice in the next two weeks. Firstly at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on October 15 and 16 in Pakistan. Then, at the BRICS+ summit on October 22 to 24 in Kazan, Russia, Which topics should be kept an eye on at both summits?The BRICS have […]
It’s almost a ritual. Whenever important political events are currently scheduled in Taiwan – elections, important state visits, swearing-in ceremonies – the Chinese leadership responds with military maneuvers. And so Taiwanese security authorities are expecting the Chinese People’s Liberation Army to hold military exercises off the island again this Thursday when Taiwanese President William Lai […]
It was a sensational idea that Shigeru Ishiba put forward last week, shortly before he was elected leader of the ruling LDP party and took office as Japan’s new prime minister on Tuesday: Ishiba called for a collective Asian defense alliance, a kind of Asian NATO. “Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow. Replacing Russia with China […]
