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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has undertaken to commit her country’s “crucial” solidarity with Taiwan, in a meeting with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. At a press conference in Taipei on Wednesday, 3 August 2022, Pelosi raised questions about Beijing’s full-throated excoriation of the US leader’s visit to Taiwan, a self-governed democracy that autocratic China aversContinue reading “Pelosi’s visit upholds Taiwan’s independence and democracy, but puts it at risk “

China’s Ministry of Defence, on Wednesday, 20 July 2022, fulminated against the US for taking “security risks” and disrupting the stability of the Taiwan Strait when the latter plied a guided-missile destroyer through the waterway earlier last week.  Colonel Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command, said, in a statement, that China hadContinue reading “China’s claims of sovereignty are a garb for illegitimate territoriality “

Have we any living evidence that God is just?  That for all our gullible ignorance, believe we must  When we are overwhelmed by misery, yet to good we allude  Do we have the right to think that justice is skewed?  Destiny is a record-keeper, and destiny is not one lifetime  May be that we areContinue reading “Justice and closure: A poem “

As the US and China compete for influence in the Indo-Pacific region, that has become the theatre of US-China emulation, China on Monday, 11 July 2022, supplicated Southeast Asian nations to avoid being used as “chess pieces in major power rivalries”.  China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, addressing the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariatContinue reading “China, US jostle for influence in the Indo-Pacific, and to establish world order “

China on Monday, 11 July 2022, warned the US and Taiwan that there would be “dark clouds or even ferocious storms” if the one-China principle, that it upholds, on how it perceives self-governed Taiwan, is abandoned, and blamed Washington of seeking to sabotage the policy.  China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at the Association ofContinue reading “Is China planning to take Taiwan by 2027? “

Those who do nothing but care for their own wants  Live their entire life solely in selfishness’ haunts  That in seeking and finding desires one only makes manifest  The illusions of life not the truth, and put the soul to rest  That in these pursuits we want our failures to gain to be brief  NotContinue reading “Sacrifice stands tall: A poem “

China on Thursday, 30 June 2022, denigrated NATO’s strategic concept published at a summit in Madrid in June 2022, that called Beijing’s stated ambitions and coercive policies a challenge to the alliance’s interests, security and values.   China excoriated NATO’s strategic concept, terming it as a ‘malicious attack’ and ‘Cold War thinking’. “NATO’s so-called new strategic conceptContinue reading “Russia apart, NATO finally wakes up to China “

I had voices and visions ever since childhood  They can sometimes be bad and mostly be good  I’m blessed with the sacred, wrestle with the profane  With all these musings, life can’t be mundane  History has it that some people have what others lack  A case in point is the story of Joan of Arc  SheContinue reading “My voices and visions: A poem “

What is life without some colour? The average speaker of English may, however, be pleased to admit that there’s more colour in the mouthful, than is apparent in the black and white between lines. And though silence is golden, it takes silvery eloquence, much too often, to brighten one’s day.  Language can often work wonders.Continue reading “The colours of life: Just for laughs “

The US happens to be going all hammer and thongs in its latest bid to counter Chinese influence around the globe. The G7 group of rich democracies, led by the US, on Sunday, 26 June 2022, made a bid to countervail China’s formidable Belt and Roads Initiative (BRI) by announcing some USD 600 billion for globalContinue reading “US seems resolute on containing China’s influence “