One thing is clear from the separately issued Chinese and the US statements that the two heads of state had a candid conversation and in-depth exchange of views on strategic and overarching issues critical to the direction of Sino-US relations and major issues affecting world peace and development.
The fourth Israel-Hamas war continues apace since October 7, when an emboldened and perhaps desperate Hamas launched a surprise 'terrorist' attacks on unsuspecting Israeli civilians and the complacent military and police posts alike, killing over 1400 innocent civilians knowing too well the might, the resolve and the firepower of the Israeli establishment.
World woke to the worst horror stories and visuals of an unprecedented and well-coordinated attack by the internationally designated terrorist group Hamas based out of Gaza on Israeli civilians and settlers breaching the hitherto impregnable borders and supposedly impregnable fences of the Israeli defence Forces.
World woke to the worst horror stories and visuals of an unprecedented and well-coordinated attack by the internationally designated terrorist group Hamas based out of Gaza on Israeli civilians and settlers breaching the hitherto impregnable borders and supposedly impregnable fences of the Israeli defence Forces.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jumped the gun without the bullet as is the want of many politicians, who wish to create sensationalism by ranting out baseless accusations of foreign interference without any credible evidence. This is often a tactic of such politicians to simply marshal the public opinion to salvage themselves. But it is a given that they don’t gain as much as they lose.
Some reactions in the western media and commentariat on India’s exceptional Lunar Chandrayan 3 success still smacks of the colonial mindset. I had visited Niger for the first time in the early 1980s when it was covered by our Embassy from Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). Ivory Coast was governed by one party rule of Papa Boigny ( Houphouet Boigny) the last strong man and a pro French leader in Francophone Africa . It was also the beautiful show window of French assimilative culture which allowed them control over 83% of overall decision making in the government through a Directeur du Cabinet ordinarily a French man.