ASIA TODAY Myanmar. The UN Security Council called on the coup junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi

Other news of the day: Taiwan mobilizes planes to ward off a Chinese air raid. The population mobilizes to demand that the Chinese leave the port of Gwadar. Japan extends the useful life of its nuclear power plants. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have criticized the Taliban for banning women from attending university. At least 7.8 million Ukrainians fled after the Russian invasion. Armenians and Azerbaijanis negotiate to unlock access to Karabakh.

MYANMAR

For the first time since the February 2021 coup, the UN Security Council yesterday adopted a resolution on Myanmar. The ruling military junta is called on to end violence over the ongoing civil war and release all political prisoners, including democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

TAIWAN-CHINA

Taipei sent fighter jets today to drive away 39 chinese military aircraft that had entered the southern sector of their air defense zone. Following the visit to the island in August by the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Beijing has intensified air and naval incursions around what it considers a “rogue province”.

PAKISTAN-CHINA

The leader of a protest group for the rights of the local population has intimidated Beijing to leave the port of Gwadar, which is considered a key node of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping’s infrastructure megaplan to strengthen China’s commercial and geopolitical position in the world.

JAPAN

The Kishida government decided today that the Nuclear reactors of the country may continue to be used beyond their current limit of 60 years; It has also been planned to replace the older plants with newer generation ones. For Tokyo, this is a significant change in political orientation, justified by the fight against climate change and the energy crisis after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

GULF-AFGHANISTAN

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates condemned the decision of the Taliban that governs Afghanistan to prohibit the access of women to the university. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi noted that the Afghan fundamentalist government’s move is not only a violation of human rights but also goes against the teachings of Islam.

UKRAINE-RUSSIA

As the representative of the kyiv Center for Economic Strategies, Anna Sakhno, explained, 7.8 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee the country after the Russian invasion and have found refuge in Europe; 2.25 million children, 43% of the entire Ukrainian school population (5.4 million), now attend schools in European Union countries.

ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN

The adviser to the Armenian government of Nagorno-Karabakh, Artak Beglaryan, is in Yerevan, where he reported that negotiations are underway with Azerbaijan, with the mediation of Russian peacekeepers, for the reopening of the “Lachinsk corridor”. Baku has set a series of conditions whose details have not been made public, although the priority requirement would be access to the Kašen mine.