Last week, US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster said that "sanctions are not designed to harm friends", but India will have to make a choice on the S-400. India's Ministry of External Affairs, while replying to possible sanctions, said it has an independent foreign policy that guides defence acquisitions in line with national security interests.
The second edition of the biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise 'Sea Vigil-21' will be conducted on 12-13 January 2021.
A resolution of the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) "On Election of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea" was released on January 10.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been elected as the ruling Workers Party's general secretary during its current assembly -- assuming the title from his late father – in an apparent bid to bolster his authority. assuming the title from his late father – in an apparent bid to bolster his authority.
Kim Yo-jong was thrown into the spotlight in April 2020 after Kim Jong-un's mysterious disappearance from the public radar. South Korean media previously reported that the woman, said to be in her mid-thirties, had been put in charge of relations with Seoul.
Delegate Ri Il Hwan made a proposal concerning the election of the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the sixth-day sitting of the 8th Congress of the WPK on January 10.
Members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) who were elected at the 8th WPK Congress are as follows:
The 1st Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the conference hall of the office building of the Central Committee of the Party on Jan. 10.
The news about the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea clearly indicating the orientation of the victorious advance of Korean-style socialism is instilling into the minds of millions of Party members and other people throughout the country the great pride in the great guidance and sagacity of our dignified Party and fresh confidence and courage.
Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has condemned the US' "hypocritical and cynical" move to return Havana to its list of "state sponsors of terrorism", describing it as political opportunism.
Earlier in the day, reports emerged suggesting that the US might return Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, from which the country was removed back in 2015.
The State Department has designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism for repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.
The Trump administration redesignated Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism" Monday, just nine days before U.S. President Donald Trump leaves office.
After US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's new round of social media attacks on the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday slammed him as leaving an evil legacy from his tenure, but adding that his final frenzy is doomed to fail.
As the shocking scenes at the U.S. Capitol building unfolded last week, residents of Hong Kong, nearly 13,000 kilometers away, were reminded of the chaos at their own Legislative Council on July 1, 2019.
In response to a joint statement made by the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, Britain, and the U.S. secretary of state on arrests in Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said it was slandering the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the HKSAR and clearly adopting double standards.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for ensuring a good start for fully building a modern socialist country.
Recently, China's first high-resolution space reference system for border panoramic images along its western areas has been set up, which will provide forward-looking information about the geographic conditions and will contribute to the development of China's western regions and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Washington has condemned Beijing for a since-removed tweet that sought to justify repressive family planning policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by suggesting they make Uyghur women more independent, prompting calls to shutter China's embassy and ban its Twitter account.
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