Experts say that Beijing would not come to bail out Sri Lanka, but instead, it would try to collect its dues if Colombo managed to get some from anywhere else.
Authorities in Beijing, a city of over 20 million people, have ordered mandatory Covid tests in the Chaoyang district and locked down some areas of the national capital.
The Chushul Councillor has time and again raised the issues pertaining to Chinese transgression, them blocking herders to access the grazing grounds, and carrying out infrastructure projects along the LAC.
The Indian Embassy in Beijing has now said that it is impossible to communicate with the Indian consulate in Shanghai due to the strict lockdown imposed there. It is also notified that officers from the Consulate General are unable to perform consular services in person.
Cries for aid flooded social media this weekend before being erased by censors, as the city's case count surpassed that of Hong Kong, which had the highest death rate in the world in March.
While Shanghai's incidence remains low by global standards – a record 4,381 asymptomatic cases and 96 symptomatic cases on Monday – the city has become a trial ground for China's "zero-COVID" plan as it attempts to manage the highly contagious Omicron form.
The announcement, made late Sunday, sparked a run on grocery stores by people frustrated with officials' inability to put an end to the epidemic despite nearly three weeks of more disruptive tactics.
Officials in China stated Wednesday that one of the two black boxes had been found. According to Flightradar24 data, the jet was travelling at more than 640 miles (966 kilometres) per hour and may have surpassed 700 mph at various times right before the catastrophic crash.
China Eastern flight MU5735 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou, according to FlightRadar24, and radar surveillance showed the aircraft dropping sharply.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) reported in an online notification that a Boeing 737 flight from Kunming to the southern hub of Guangzhou "lost aerial communication above Wuzhou" city in the Guangxi area.