China and Russia, both authoritarian powers, share a common distrust towards the US and are battling Washington’s diminishing influence in their own ways. The two countries work together in UN-led …
Monthly Archives For February 2022
China lifts curbs on Russian wheat to ease impact of sanctions
BEIJING: China is now fully open to Russian wheat deliveries, as all import restrictions have been lifted, the South China Morning Post has reported, citing the country’s General Administration of …
How Biden Gave China The Solar Industry
An Alabama-based solar panel manufacturer is closing down. Why? Check out what Biden did to Trump’s solar safeguards for clues.
US-born Eileen Gu representing Beijing at Olympics courts controversy for being ignorant about China’s internet freedom
Eileen Gu has been at the thick end of controversy since the news of her competing as an Olympian for China and not the US surfaced …
High-level coordination mechanism at Beijing Winter Paralympics launched
The International Paralympic Committee IPC and the Beijing organizing committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games …
‘I do think we’ll come back stronger’ – Katherine Grainger vows Team GB will improve after Beijing disappointment
Katherine Grainger insists the ‘huge disappointments’ of the Winter Olympic Games will form key catalysts for change as Team GB bosses plot a road to recovery.
Op-Ed: Whether it sides with Russia or not, China will pay a price
Now that the Ukraine invasion has come to pass, Beijing risks alienating the West completely or losing a strategic partner of convenience.
Chinese phone brands are carrying the torch for Europe’s biggest mobile show
Next week sees Mobile World Congress return to Barcelona, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the world’s biggest mobile phone trade show, and one year after the show took …
China’s slowly fading love affair with Hollywood
China has been the largest market for Hollywood, a fact that does not need to be iterated, though in the last few years with the rise of high nationalism in China and the extremely deteriorating…
400K tonnes of cassava for SW China
Cambodia will export 400,000 tonnes of dried cassava to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region “from March 2022 to March 2023”, under a new agreement between the Ministry of Commerce and the …
China OKs all imports of Russian wheat amid Ukraine crisis
China lifted all its wheat-import sanctions on Russia amid the Ukraine crisis, signifying a strengthening between Moscow-Beijing relations as the United States and its allies impose new sanctions on …
Cold, surreal and socially distanced, the Beijing Olympics stood the (COVID) test of time
Beijing • Deep in the bowels of the Main Media Center, the convention center-turned-hub for the 9,000-plus journalists who descended upon the Beijing Olympics, sits a section of the Great Wall of …
Beijing has the upper hand when it comes to ties in Asia-Pacific
China is regarded more as a friend than a foe to many governments, which appreciate its non-interference in domestic affairs and view it as crucial for development China is claimed not to be the focus…
