The Lankan Finance Ministers visit is meant to not only secure loans but also seek wider cooperation on a range of other matters, including investment, trade and tourism.
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What’s behind Jamie Dimon’s China joke mea culpa
Wall Street firms are vying to manage China’s estimated $27 trillion in savings, which makes it risky to joke about the longevity of the Chinese Communist Party.
Uganda Entebbe Airport To Be Taken Over By China As Beijing Refuses To Renegotiate ‘Toxic Clauses’ In $207million Loan
The Export-Import Bank of China (Exim) is set to take over the Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport over the failure of the Ugandan government to repay a $207 million loan. Uganda Civil Aviation …
China strengthens lending support for private enterprises
File photo shows a worker counts Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB) at a bank in Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Si Wei) BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — China has increased lending …
With China at crossroads, Xi Jinping is relying more on his ideology czar—Wang Huning
Xi was surprisingly absent this year, but he had dispatched the senior official to deliver the inaugural address on his behalf. The official, Wang Huning, had for long been part of the Communist Party …
China needs risk assessment, anti-corruption measures to address ‘challenging’ belt and road environments
President Xi Jinping last week called for businesses involved with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to assess overseas risk regularly, while also establishing a risk monitoring system and …
China-Africa cooperation to upgrade in new era
Global economic development needs new engines, and cooperation between countries needs new models, and global and regional integrations require new platforms. In this backdrop, Africa, a lesser …
China and India to receive £1.5billion climate aid windfall despite scuppering COP26 coal pledges
Despite having two of the fastest growing economies in the world, the UN designates China and India as ‘developing states’.
How the Russian ambassador saved Beijing from British and French troops
Nikolai Ignatiev’s rescue of the inhabitants of the Chinese capital was of enormous significance for the history of not only China, but the entire Russian Far East.
China could spy on Army with TikTok – ‘There’s literally a hashtag!’
CHINESE social media giant TikTok could give Beijing the edge in future conflicts, tech experts warn – and it will be difficult to stop.
China looks for firmer legal ground for economic ties with Russia
Beijing is growing impatient with the lack of progress on integration between the two economies, particularly on the Belt and Road Initiative, analyst says.
Was new variant named Omicron to avoid angering Beijing? WHO chose to skip TWO letters of Greek alphabet to avoid ‘Xi’ which has written similarity to Chinese president Xi Jinping
The WHO’s decision to name the variant from southern Africa ‘Omicron’ has sparked speculation that the WHO deliberately skipped over ‘Xi’ to avoid angering the President of China, Xi Jinping.
China’s New Mobile Payment Rules Aim to Crack Down on Cross-Border Gambling, Central Bank Says
China’s central bank has issued new regulations (link in Chinese) for the multitrillion-dollar payment sector, in a bid to improve risk control and clamp down on crimes like cross-border gambling that …
