On a blue-sky September day almost exactly five years ago, I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and shook the hand of a young man I had been
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Evergrande Chairman Hui kept in special detention center in Shenzhen, sources say
Hui Ka Yan, the chairman of China Evergrande Group – the company at the centre of the country’s property sector crisis – has been moved to a special detention centre in Shenzhen, two sources with…
China’s debtors get ray of hope as Shenzhen shares bankruptcy data
Shenzhen has released more data on its personal bankruptcy cases, part of a pilot programme adopted to aid China’s individual debtors.
China’s $6.5 Trillion Loss Should Have Xi Jinping Looking In The Mirror
The $6.5 trillion that’s been erased from mainland bourses since a 2021 peak is an epically large price to pay for Beijing’s policies these last few years.
Russia ‘Always Open’ to Ukraine Peace Talks, Putin Tells China
Vladimir Putin has insisted that Ukraine accept the loss of the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea as a precondition for peace talks.
China is raising its retirement age, now among the youngest in the world’s major economies
China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world’s major economies, in an effort to address its shrinking population and aging work force. The Standing …
China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s
China will “gradually raise” its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget. The top legislative body on Friday …
China, Russia chide West at annual security forum in Beijing
Chinese and Russian defence officials on Friday took swipes at the West at a military diplomacy forum in Beijing, with China pitching to the Global South and Russia saying the United States was …
China approves plan to raise retirement age from January 2025
China’s top legislative body has approved a proposal to raise the country’s retirement age, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, accelerating an overhaul of decades-old laws to tackle the …
China’s top health body urges marriage, childbirth at ‘appropriate ages’
China’s National Health Commission will focus more efforts on advocating marriage and childbirth at “appropriate ages”, an official said, as authorities struggle to boost a declining birth rate that …
China mortgage cut is start of confidence rebuild
Chinese policymakers are planning to cut interest rates on existing mortgages by around 80 basis points as soon as this month, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Xi may meet Zelenskiy, Ukrainian attendee says, as Beijing defence forum opens
Chinese President Xi Jinping could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy next month, a former Ukrainian official said in Beijing on Thursday at the opening of China’s biggest annual …
China’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth. Its mission? Unknown
A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth after more than eight months in orbit – the latest development in a largely …
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