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Relations between Australia-China are likely to deteriorate

  The thunder between Australia and China refuses to calm down even after nearly three decades of cordial economic and political relations. This year, especially, saw an increase in friction points between the two and now the experts have suggested that relations might further worsen. Even as the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a few days earlier that he is open to dialogue with the Chinese officials but experts and those close to their affair have asserted that now the differences have reached a non-negotiable end. The tensions initially started in 2017 but were still cordial enough for the trade and economic exchanges to continue but as Covid-19 pandemic hit, it became extremely fragile as Australia became one of the countries to blame China for it. Canberra also became one of the leading countries strongly against policies offered to lockout Chinese tech giants like Huawei from its 5g rollout. This obviously did not go down well with China, which restricted A...

Qatar opts for silence over Australian women strip-search, labour exploitation and bulk investment in Turkey

  Aisha Al-Qahtani, a Qatari resident who escaped her country for a better and a safer life in Britain sums up her native land’s treatment towards women in a line - “To be a woman in Qatar is criminal ’. Her statement is not hard to believe especially after how Qatar treated various female passengers forcing them for intimate medical check-up without their consent to find out who was the mother of an abandoned child found in the airport bin. The issue caused global outrage exposing Doha’s insensitive dealing of the matter. But what surprised many was Qatar’s lack of regret for its actions.   Today marked two months to the episode of Qatari barbarity, which left many female passengers shaken, who were travelling on Qatar airways flight 908 to Sydney on October 2. Despite “grossly disturbing” and “ offensive” treatment of women, Qatar did not reach out to the victims who went through the “sexual assault” to offer them an apology, let alone the compensation. Besides, the coun...

After invading privacy of women, Qatar finally finds abandoned child’s mother

  Qatar authorities have released a statement saying that they have identified the parents of the baby found near a garbage tin in an Airport in Qatar. The matter received a lot of attention worldwide because the Qatari authorities were accused of sexually assaulting women belonging from different nationalities and especially triggered people in Australia. More than a dozens of women were invasively searched in the airport where the Qatari authorities found an abandoned baby and targeted women from around 10 flights and examined them without their consent to identify if they were the ones to leave the baby behind.   On Monday, a statement released by the Qatari prosecutor read that an unspecified number of Qatar airport staff and authorities were detained for carrying out these examinations. These authorities can be charged with sentences up to three years in prison. As for the identity of the mother, the prosecutor revealed that she has been charged with attempt to murd...