China has a longstanding history of cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Last February, China and Argentina made a nuclear deal. State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) signed a contract with Argentina promising to build the US$8 billion Atucha III nuclear power ...
Yesterday, Xi and Putin met face to face at a conference in Uzbekistan to discuss Ukraine and Taiwan. Speaking one-on-one, Putin said Russia understood Xi's "questions and concerns" over the ...
The US is considering possible sanctions against China to deter any military action against Taiwan. Nothing is confirmed yet, but the sanctions would likely go beyond the current limits of ...
Sri Lanka is dealing with a major debt crisis ranging from estimates of US$85 billion to over US$100 billion. The crisis has resulted in a depletion of essential imports like ...
China is gearing up for its next party congress, which will take place in about a month. President Xi is expected to get a historic third leadership term during the ...
China relies heavily on imported semiconductor chips even though it's the world's largest exporter of them. In fact, more than 90% of chips produced in China are made by foreign ...
Last week, China became the first country to approve an inhalable version of the COVID vaccine.
Since the early 2000s, cooperation between China and Israel has accelerated. China has boosted its average yearly investment in Israel from 2002, with its annual investment ballooning from US$20 million ...
So we’ve talked a lot about space recently, and with good reason. NASA is working on getting its new SLS rockets to launch off the Artemis I, the first of ...
China, the US and Russia are pretty big deals when it comes to researching cyberwarfare. For years, it’s been the norm for the US and allies to accuse China of ...
As of March 31, 2022, there were 261 Chinese companies listed on major US stock exchanges, with a total market capitalization of US$1.3 trillion.
China claims Taiwan as its own, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has talked about reunification between the two regions many times.
China's zero-COVID policy has been putting a damper on its economy for a while now. Entire cities have been looking at lockdowns, like Hainan Island.
China, like everywhere else, has had it pretty hard during COVID. But with its strict lockdown restrictions in place when outbreaks come up, the economy has taken a pretty good ...
For over two months, the southeastern region of China has been undergoing a record-breaking heat wave and drought. Apart from affecting the population's health and the country's crops, this weather ...
When it comes to e-commerce in the US, Amazon is hands down the biggest player. It has nearly 38% of the overall market, with Walmart coming in second at just ...
Back in July, US Congress passed a bill called the CHIPS and Science Act, which was essentially legislation that invests a lot of money into the country’s domestic production of ...
With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, China's population is aging. China's birthrate in 2021 was 1.16, far below the international standard of 2.1 for keeping a ...
In total, about 13,000 nuclear warheads worldwide are still in use. The US, Russia and China are among the top five countries with the most nuclear weapons.
China’s internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is in charge of creating policies on the internet in China. It regularly publishes a magazine called China Wangxin, or China Cyberspace.
Chinese nationals have previously made up as much as 35% of the international students studying in the US. For a while, the US was the top place that Chinese students ...
More than two years from the onset of the COVID pandemic, we're already seeing another widespread health concern with monkeypox. And with its first case in 2018, a new virus ...
North Korea has been expanding its nuclear program for a while, and, to counter it, the US has been rolling out something called the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile ...
Last week, China began military drills in the waters near Taiwan, even reportedly inching past the unofficial boundary line of Taiwanese territory in the Taiwan Strait.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Putin has spoken to Chinese President Xi at least twice. Allegedly, Xi expressed respect for Russia's actions.
With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arriving in Taiwan on Tuesday, tensions were high. Beijing warned against her and the US "playing with fire" by visiting the breakaway region, which China ...
A crucial shipping route between Asia and the West is the Taiwan Strait, the waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland Asia.
Although the US doesn't have official diplomatic ties to Taiwan, the country believes in Taipei's right to self-defense and has sent weapons there to support this stance. Still, no US ...
On July 24, China launched a rocket with a new capsule for Tiangong, the country's space station currently under construction.
Tensions between the US and China have been higher than average in the past few months. The big thing going on is that China refuses to join the American-led attack ...
Despite China’s strict lockdown policies in line with its zero-COVID stance, the country can’t quite squash out the highly contagious and transmissible coronavirus.
HSBC is headquartered in London but makes most of its money in Hong Kong and has aggressive expansion plans in mainland China.
There was a period of time when all anyone could talk about was Evergrande and how much trouble China’s real estate sector was in. Since then, the noise has died ...
European and Chinese leaders are engaging in high-level economic and trade dialogues on Tuesday. The same officials will lead the talks – EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis and Chinese ...
Even though the debt-laden Evergrande hasn't been as widely mentioned in the headlines lately, the industry's woes and struggles are still very much ongoing. A boycott around China has been ...
On Monday, Chinese tech stocks fell sharply, driven by Alibaba and Tencent, which alongside several other companies were fined by China's Market Regulation agency for not reporting properly on previous ...
Australia and China have been at odds for quite some time now. When COVID hit in 2020, Australia's previous leader Morrison called for an investigation into the origins of the ...
In recent months, the Chinese government has shifted its tone when it comes to its regulatory campaigns, especially in the tech industry.
Official statements from both China and the US have revealed that China's Vice Premier Liu and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had a call on Tuesday that was described as ...
After nearly 900 days in mainland China, President Xi has left for the neighboring semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong to celebrate the city's 25th anniversary of Chinese rule.
It's been some time since we've spoken about the struggling Chinese real estate sector. Just a quick recap: a lot of Chinese developers expanded rapidly over the past few decades ...
Have you ever BS’d your way through a conversation so well that 10 minutes in, you realize you’re still talking and have no idea what you’re talking about? Well, according ...
Throughout the pandemic, Hong Kong has kept some of the strictest COVID rules in the world as it keeps to its dynamic zero COVID strategy. This stance has led to ...
In the early hours of June 10, there was a harrowing attack on four women at a restaurant in the northern city of Tangshan in the Hebei province of China ...
Hong Kong's incoming leader John Lee has put together his cabinet, which has been given the green light by the Chinese government. Now, in a statement entitled, "New Team, New ...
The Ukraine and Russia war is entering its fourth month, and while the West piles on sanctions against Russia, isolating its economy and deepening its ties with Ukraine, nations like ...
With inflation running at a four-decade high, triggering a 0.75 basis point Fed hike last week, the US is in the midst of reconfiguring some of the US tariffs on ...
Forever 21, the fast fashion retailer, has had a pretty bumpy entrance and journey in mainland China. It first tried to get into the Chinese market in 2008 but left ...
A slew of Chinese economic data was published on Wednesday, showing that, despite the COVID lockdowns across the country, the world's second-largest economy saw better-than-expected industrial output and retail sales ...
There is now more chatter about President Xi potentially visiting Hong Kong for the region’s July 1 handover anniversary. SCMP reported Wednesday that unidentified sources have said around 1,000 people ...
All in all, this week has been a good week for Chinese tech companies. WSJ first reported on Monday that Chinese regulators were ending investigations into three firms, the most ...
Over the weekend, Australia's Prime Minister Albanese said that a Chinese military jet intercepted an Australian surveillance aircraft while doing a routine check of the South China Sea region. Australia ...
At a press conference on Sunday, Australian Prime Minister Albanese said that while a RAAF P-8 aircraft was doing a routine check in the South China Sea region on May ...
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sunday that the US might look into lifting or easing some tariffs on China imports to help fight inflation.
After two months of an intense lockdown that drew international attention as China stuck firmly with its COVID-zero policies, Shanghai, the mainland’s COVID outbreak epicenter, is picking back up. With ...
China and India could become the world's largest and third-largest economies, respectively, in the next decade, and their stock markets could grow a whopping fourfold by 2050, according to Abrdn ...
As Hong Kong gradually learns to live with COVID, reopening the China border has remained one of its major goals, especially for the city’s next leader, John Lee, who vowed ...
China’s foreign minister said that Chinese-American relations have gone “seriously awry” after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China is the “most serious long-term challenge to the international order.” ...
After about two months of lockdowns, Chinese authorities in Shanghai have decided to relax the COVID rules from June 1 as cases are on the decline. The city reported 122 ...
A day after Joe Biden returned to the US from an Asia trip where he proposed the Indo-Pacific pact agreement, China is reportedly working on its own proposal to 10 ...
Last year, China decided to implement a three-child policy amid record low birth rates since 1950. Shortly after, the COVID-19 pandemic kicked off, and the property market subsequently took a ...
A Communist Party journal released remarks that Chinese President Xi Jinping made in December where he warned against the inappropriate accumulation of wealth and the risks it poses to a ...
A peer-reviewed study by Shanghai's Fudan University said that if China were to abandon its COVID-zero policies, hospitals would overflow and there could be more than 1.55 million deaths. This ...
We know even with our 10 news sources and wires and countless rounds of editing, we still make the occasional boo-boo. What about you? Ever made a typo in a ...
When China and Hong Kong talked about prerequisites to open borders quarantine-free late last year, one of them was “no local infections for a while.” Hong Kong then faced its ...
China has been seeing a consecutive drop in COVID cases lately. Yet, authorities have continued to tighten measures (on top of Shanghai’s lockdowns) to achieve the government’s COVID-zero policy. Now ...
Lockdowns in Shanghai have been going on for over a month now, and officials say they will continue until the community reaches zero COVID cases for three days straight. Things ...
Chinese tech company Xiaomi is pretty big in India, with around a 23% grip on the local smartphone market share. But, the relationship between China and India has somewhat soured ...
Two companies just got permission to have fully self-driving cars do taxi services in part of Beijing. One company, Baidu’s Apollo Go, got permission for ten cars, and Pony.ai got ...
Beijing has been watching Shanghai city residents experience some of the harshest lockdowns yet imposed by China. But now, after seeing a handful of cases within its own city limits, ...
Citizens in Shanghai are getting fed up, to say the least, over the harsh COVID regulations being imposed in response to the country’s worst outbreak since Wuhan. Now, metal fences ...
After weeks of lockdown, Shanghai’s battle with COVID seems far from over, with the city recording triple the number of severe cases from the previous day.
Xi told countries to "reject the Cold War mentality, oppose unilateralism, and say no to group politics and bloc confrontation." He referred to the international community as a ship and ...
Some high profile global investors are pulling some money out of China. The main fear is that the risks don’t outweigh the rewards of being there. For example, many investors ...
According to flight-tracking data, China Eastern, the airline involved in that plane crash last month that killed 132 people in Guangzhou, has restarted flights of the same plane model that ...
Shanghai reported close to 25,000 cases on Saturday, and the city is in its third week of lockdown. Now, Shanghai’s Economic and Information Technology Commission has published a statement on ...
While China is trying to contain its worst COVID outbreak yet, lockdowns have only strained the economy with millions stuck inside.
Since last year, Beijing has commenced a widespread economic crackdown across multiple industries.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, China’s Xi has spoken with quite a few world leaders, including Putin.
The US and China have had relationship issues for quite some time. After a two-year trade war where it was tariff after tariff, the two superpowers agreed to a phase ...
China is still in the middle of its worst outbreak since the virus was first detected in Wuhan around three years ago. On Saturday, the country recorded over 13,000 COVID ...
This Chinese e-commerce brand called SHEIN focuses on creating really trendy outfits for women at very low prices. It’s come under scrutiny for adding to the issues associated with fast ...
With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics only two months away, international politics and the pandemic pose problems for the event. With health and governmental officials expressing reservations around the event ...
While the new strain is said to be rare and not easily transmissible, experts are still warning that the threat of a bird flu pandemic has become more and more ...
For years, even before his presidency, Donald Trump has been an outspoken advocate for taking a hard line against China. Whether in addressing the ongoing trade imbalance, China’s behavior on ...
The European Union (EU) is currently researching how best to utilize 5G technology for its member states and digital economy in the hope of being at the forefront of the ...
