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Despite new Biden administration, US-China friction could remain high
Joe Biden approach will be more calculating than knee-jerk, say experts, but that is no guarantee of reduced tensions
Reuters
ANKARA:
Chinese-US relations during the Donald Trump years went from bad to worse, but experts believe friction could climb even higher under new President Joe Biden.
Besides an ongoing trade war, conflict of interests continues over a range of issues including human rights abuses against China’s minority Uighurs, the status of Taiwan, national security legislation in Hong Kong, and military expansion in the South China Sea.
Mushahid Hussain Sayed, a Pakistani senator for the capital Islamabad, said there would be no drastic change in the US perception of China as a competitor, but that the new president would like to engage with Beijing, taking a more “civilized” approach.
Bill protecting students from sexual harassment backed
Amid many incidents of harassment of female students at educational institutions, especially universities, a Senate committee in Pakistan has passed an act this month that, once it becomes law, promises swifter action and stricter punishment of perpetrators of harassment through speedy trials of cases.
The 12-member Standing Committee on Education of Pakistan’s Senate or upper house of parliament on 13 January passed the “Protection against Harassment of Students in Educational Institutions Bill 2020”, originally moved by Senator Javed Abbasi (Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz) in the Senate in August last year, to provide a safer environment in institutions and enable criminal proceedings to be launched against teachers and others charged with harassment.