A warning to spread the word‼️Thefts on board international flights are on the rise, and several on flights through Hong Kong. I recently had a credit card stolen on a flight. Here's what happened, and how you should be vigilant. A short thread. South China Morning Post reported last month a 57-year-old man named Chen was arrested after stealing a watch and bank card. The victim "placed the items inside a handbag and stowed them in an overhead compartment but found them gone"
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China's Defence Minister told Rajnath Singh, as per Chinese media reports (awaiting India's statement): 'The cause and truth of the current tension on the border are very clear. The responsibility lies entirely with the Indian side. Not an inch of China's territory can be lost.' Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe also told Rajnath Singh, according to Chinese media reports, that 'China hoped the Indian side does not deliberately hype and spread negative information'

China's Strategic Assessment of the Ladakh Clash: I will add to the chorus and recommend this piece for the best perspective you can find on Beijing's view. Having said that, it isn't without many contradictions, which it accepts at face value. warontherocks.com/2020/06/chinas… Firstly, attributing the Galwan clash to lack of consensus on the LAC is a plain mischaracterisation. As I report today, what has happened is China is changing its long-held LAC alignment, extending it west. thehindu.com/news/national/…

Why the ongoing border tension with China at multiple points along the LAC is more serious than past incidents, suggesting China’s planning and the likelihood of a protracted stand-off, in the view of two former generals: thehindu.com/news/national/… Lt Gen Hooda: "Normal face-offs happen every year, they don’t lead to these kind of incidents. This is much more serious. They have come completely well prepared and prepared to do things by force. We have never seen this level of violence." thehindu.com/news/national/…

Thread: What we know and don’t know on the origins of Covid-19: Was it bio-engineered? Did it escape from a lab in Wuhan? What does the evidence tell us so far? Here's a layman's attempt to parse through some of the theories doing the rounds. The first widespread theory was SARS-Cov-2 was biowarfare gone wrong. The origin of this theory can be sourced to this report: washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/…

THREAD: An article written by a Chinese businessman in India has gone viral on WeChat over the past two days, 100,000+ views (maximum reported amount so probably in the millions) and sent to me by half a dozen people.

It also happens to be full of incredible, nonsensical claims. It begins by saying why many Chinese businessmen wanted to leave their projects and return home but didn't because "Indians screw everything up. There's nothing Indians can't mess up". [er, why are you doing a project here then?]