Mon District. Konyak Civil Societies led by Konyak Union, KNSK, KSU, KGOU, KVCU & KBBB

WASHINGTON, SEP 2

(PTI): China is seeking to set up more robust logistics facilities in about a dozen countries, including three in India’s neighbourhood, to allow the PLA to project and sustain military power at greater distances, according to a Pentagon report.

In addition to the three neighbours of India -- Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar -- the other countries where China is considering to base its military logistics and infrastructure facilities are Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, Angola and Tajikistan, the report said on Tuesday.

In its annual report “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) 2020” that was submitted to the US Congress, the Pentagon said these potential Chinese military logistics facilities are in addition to the Chinese military base in Djibouti, which is aimed at supporting naval, air and ground forces projection.

“A global PLA (People’s Liberation Army) military logistics network could both interfere with US military operations and support offensive operations against the United States as the PRC’s global military objec

DUBAI, SEP 2 (AP):

Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that flights to and from the United Arab Emirates “from all countries” will now be able to use its airspace — a statement apparently allowing flyovers by Israel following a deal to normalise UAEIsrael relations.

The vaguely worded statement avoided naming Israel directly. However, the announcement came just days after the kingdom allowed the first direct Israeli commercial passenger flight to use its airspace to reach the UAE. Any direct flight between the two nations would need to use Saudi airspace to be commercially viable.

The statement makes

COPENHAGEN, SEP 2

(IANS): Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod summoned Russian Ambassador Vladimir Barbin amid escalated tensions following the alleged incursion into the country’s airspace by a Russian Su-27 fighter in the Baltic while in pur

Photo of Chinese military forces for representation.

tives evolve,” the Pentagon said in the report.

China has probably already made overtures to Namibia, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands, it said, adding the known focus areas of PLA planning are along the Seal Lines of Communication from China to the Strait of Hormuz, Africa, and the Pacific Islands.

Similarly, the Pentagon said, Beijing uses the One Belt One Road (OBOR) intitiative to support its strategy of national rejuvenation by seeking to expand global transportation and trade linkages to support its development and deepen its economic integration with nations along its periphery and beyond. no mention of the kingdom’s rival, Iran, nor Qatar, which Saudi Arabia is currently boycotting. Flights to and from those countries to the Emirates would, in theory, not need to use the kingdom’s airspace.

The Saudi Press Agency said the move comes in response to a “request by the UAE” for flights to and from the country.

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan wrote on Twitter that the kingdom’s “firm and established position toward the Palestinian cause will not change.”

However, even he did not directly name Israel in his tweet.

Israeli Prime Minissuit of a US Air Force B52 bomber.

According to NATO, the incursion on August 28 was the first of its kind in several years, reports Xinhua news agency.

“Completely unacceptable violation of Denmark’s airspace by Russian

“OBOR projects associated with pipelines and port construction in Pakistan intend to decrease China’s reliance on transporting energy resources through strategic chokepoints, such as the Strait of Malacca,” it said.

China leverages the OBOR to invest in projects along China’s western and southern periphery to improve stability and diminish threats along its borders, the report said.

First announced in 2013, China’s OBOR initiative is a signature foreign and economic policy advanced by President Xi Jinping.

According to the Pentagon, a global PLA military logistics network could both ter Benjamin Netanyahu praised the announcement in an online video, signaling it directly involved his country.

“For years, I have been working to open the skies between Israel and the East,” he said. “Now there is another tremendous breakthrough — Israeli planes and those from all countries will be able to fly directly from Israel to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and back.

Flights will be cheaper and shorter, and it will lead to robust tourism and develop our economy.” Earlier this week, Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, flew with a high-level Israeli delegation to the UAE on the first direct commercial passenger flight between the two countries, a Star of David emblazoned on the jet’s tail.

The flight traversed Saudi airspace, signaling at least acquiescence for a breakthrough US-brokered deal by the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations with Israel. Su-27 fighter. (I) will raise issue with Russian authorities to avoid repetition,” Kofod tweeted on Tuesday, adding: “DK (Denmark) will always defend our airspace, insist on international law.”

The Russian action prompted the immediate interfere with the US military operations and support offensive operations against the United States as the Chinese global military objectives evolve.

“Host nations can perform an essential role in regulating the PRC’s military operations as Chinese officials very likely recognise that a stable long-term relationship with the host nation is critical to the success of their military logistics facilities,” it said.

Chinese military academics assert that bases abroad can enable forward deployment of its forces and support military conflict, diplomatic signalling, political change, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, Thailand scraps social distancing on rail network

BA N G KO K , S E P 2

(IANS): Thailand’s Transport Ministry said on Wednesday that there is no necessity for practicing social distancing on the rail transport systems as the country had already crossed three months of zero local Covid-19 transmission.

The Ministry’s Department of Rail Transport has decided to ease social distancing measures when travelling on trains by allowing the occupancy of all seats, but passengers must wear face masks and refrain from talking to each other during the journey, said an announcement by the Ministry.

The statement said that railway service operators should check the temperature of all passengers before boarding and ensure carriages are not too packed, Xinhua news agency reported.

All passengers have been advised to wash their hands with sanitizer before boarding and after disembarking and to use the Covid-19 tracking application, the statement added. launch of the Danish Quick Reaction Alert aircraft to counter the violation, near the island of Bornholm, resulting in the lone Russian fighter to turn back before the interception. Earlier Tuesday, Minister of Defence Trine Bramsen called it an “unacceptable violation of Danish airspace”.

The Russian Defence Ministry has however denied that the fighter jet violated the Danish airspace.

“On August 28, 2020, a Su-27 fighter from the air defence duty of the Baltic Fleet was raised to identify and prevent a US Air Force B-52H strategic bomber from violating the Russian state border,” the Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

“The flight of the Russian Su-27 fighter, accompanied by an American bomber, was carried out over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea in strict accordance with international rules..., without violating the borders of other states.” and training.

They also suggest that a military logistic network could enable intelligence monitoring of the US military.

In August 2017, China officially opened its first military base in Djibouti, on the horn of Africa.

Chinese Navy Marines are stationed at the base with wheeled armoured vehicles and artillery but are currently dependent on nearby commercial ports due to the lack of a pier on base, the report said.

Chinese personnel at the facility have interfered with US flights by lasing pilots and flying drones, and China has sought to restrict Djiboutian sovereign airspace over the base, the report said.

Beyond its base in Djibouti, China is very likely already considering and planning for additional military logistics facilities to support naval, air, and ground forces projection, the Pentagon report said.

The PLA’s approach likely includes consideration of many different sites and outreach to many countries, but only some will advance to negotiations for an infrastructure agreement, status of forces or visiting forces agreement, and/or basing agreement, the report added.

TOKYO, SEP 2 (IANS):

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday announced that it will choose outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s successor during a vote on September 14

The race for the party’s top position will officially start on September 8, reports Xinhua news agency.

The newly-elected Prime Minister will serve the remainder of Abe’s term as the LDP President through September 2021.

The winner of the election will be anointed the country’s new prime minister at an extraordinary parliamentary session, most likely to be convened on September 16, according to local media reports.

Yoshihide Suga, 71, who has been Chief Cabinet Secretary for nearly eight years and considered as a continuity candidate, is scheduled to formally declare his candidacy at a press conference on Wednesday evening.

Two other contenders former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former

WASHINGTON, SEP 2

(PTI): The entire world is beginning to unite against China’s unfair practices and countries like India, Australia, Japan and South Korea are going to partner with the US to push back Beijing on every front, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said.

The US is intensifying pressure on China, piling on visa bans, sanctions and other restrictions that are battering the already unsettled ties between the world’s two largest economies.

In an interview to Fox News on Tuesday, Pompeo said, “I think you’re seeing the entire world begin to unite around the central understanding that the Chinese Communist Party simply is going to refuse to compete in a fair, reciprocal and transparent way.”

“So, whether it’s our friends in India, our friends in Australia, friends in Japan or South Korea, I think they have all come to see the risk to their own people, to their own countries, and you’ll see them partner with the US to push back (China) on every front that we’ve talked about this evening,” he said, responding to a question posed by the host, Lou Dobbs, on India reportedly sending

Shinzo Abe

Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who announced their candidacies on Tuesday.

On August 28, Abe, Japan’s longest serving Prime Minister, abruptly announced his intent to resign citing his chronic illness, but said he would remain in power until a successor was chosen.

In his announcement, the premier said that he needed to be treated for a flare-up of his intestinal disease that led his first one-year stint to end abruptly in 2007.

After stepping down in 2007 over a medical issue, he returned to the top job in 2012 after a landslide election win in the Lower House, NHK reported.

Mike Pompeo

a warship into the South China Sea.

Dobbs said India’s act was in response against the clashes on the border with China, and also it appears with some affinity with the US Navy that is in the South China Sea. Dobbs wanted to know the importance of the US relationship with India in meeting the threat from China.

“It’s central that we have friends and allies in this battle. We’ve worked for two years now to build that out. We’ve made real progress. You’ve seen lots of countries turn away from Huawei. You’ve seen them acknowledge the threat. They slept on this threat the same way America did for two decades,” Pompeo said.

Beijing claims almost all of the 1.3 million square mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

India has been maintaining that the South China Sea is a “part of global commons” and it firmly stands for the freedom of in these international waterways.

The US had also categorically rejected the territorial claims made by Beijing in the South China Sea, asserting that the “Chinese predatory world view” has no place in the 21st century.

During the interview, Pompeo said America slept while China grew.

“You talked about their missile systems, their military, all the things that have grown...the trade issues, all the economic issues that you’ve talked about on your show for months and months and months now.

“President (Donald) Trump is taking each of these on in a serious way, and I think you see the rhetoric from the Chinese Communist Party ratcheting up because they are feeling the pressure that’s being put on them by this administration,” he said.

Saudi Arabia says flights to, from UAE can fly over kingdom

Denmark summons Russian envoy over airspace violation

Russian Su-27 fighter planes flying in Denmark airspace.

Japan’s ruling party to choose Abe’s successor on Sep 14

navigation and overflight

A NOTE OF GRATITUDE

The Empowered Committee, Covid-19, Mon District

express heartfelt gratitude to the following Individuals, establishments and organizations who have contributed in kind services and financially towards the management of Quarantine Facilities for the 1583 inter-state returnees of Mon District. : 1. High Powered Committee, Covid –19, Nagaland, led by

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri. Neiphiu Rio 2. Shri. Paiwang Konyak, Hon’ble Minister for Transport &

Civil Aviation & Railways and Minister in-charge, Covid19, Mon District 3. All the Nine Honorable Members of Nagaland

Legislative Assembly, Mon District. 4. Administrative Officers, DEF and Medical Department of Mon District. 5. Nagaland State Transport Department. 6. All Departmental Officers, Officers’ Club Mon & Staff of

Mon District. 7. Konyak Civil Societies led by Konyak Union, KNSK,

KSU, KGOU, KVCU & KBBB 8. All the Churches and other faith based organizations of

Mon District. 9. The Sub-Divisional Task Forces, village councils, village organizations and NSRLM SHGs 10.All the Frontlines Workers 11. The Educational Institutions and other establishments for providing the Infrastructures 12.Well-Wishers and Donors, who we could not mention and thank individually

It is because of your selfless sacrifices and contributions that all the Returnees have reached their homes safely and are united back with their families. May the Almighty God bless you all abundantly and keep you all Safe.

Afghan airstrikes kill 37 militants

KABUL, SEP 2 (IANS): At least 37 militants were killed in airstrikes that targeted Taliban gatherings in Afghanistan’s Faryab province on Wednesday, an army spokesman said. “Acting on a tip-off, the fighter planes struck the gatherings in the restive Qaysar and Khawja Sabzposh districts early Wednesday morning, killing 37 including notorious commanders Mullah Sadiq, Mullah Basir and Faizullah on the spot,” the spokesman told Xinhua. More than a dozen others sustained injuries in the air raids, he added. Describing the strikes as “pre-emptive action”, the spokesman contended that the Taliban fighters had gathered for chalking out plans to stormed security checkpoints in the districts. Taliban militants who are operational in parts of Faryab province with Maimana as its capital 425 km northwest of Kabul, are yet to comment.

FELICITATION Darogapathar Youth Organisation (DYO) is proud to heartily congratulate

NK Keny (Love Care Home Darogapathar) on being awarded the Indian Inspirational Women award 2020 for her relentless contribution towards social service.

DYO wishes you the very best and pray that God will continue to bless you.

Sd/-

President, DYO

(Sumika K Murumi)

IPR Secy, DYO

FELICITATION

The Satoi Range Public Union Dimapur (SRPUD) on behalf of the citizens of Satoi would like to convey our heartiest congratulations: 1. Er. Kakiye Rotokha, on his promotion to Sub-Divisional

Officer, Dept of Power. 2. Dr. S. Kanitoli Chishi, wife of Mr. Vinoto Zhimomi on completion of her PhD from SASARD, Medziphema on the topic "Impact of Integrated Water Management

Programme on Rural Economy of Nagaland"

3. Dr. Bokishe V. Sema, Assistant Professor, Anyang Theological

University, South Korea on Completion of his PhD from Seoul

Christian University, Seoul, South Korea on the topic "A New

Therapy Model for Premarital Counceling in the context of Sumi Naga based on Murray Bowen's Theory of transgenerational Model"

The Union wishes the best for their future endeavor. -3697 (BOKISHE AWOMI) (HOSHIKA AWOMI) DP

General Secretary, SRPUD President, SRPUD