China relationship is unravelling at a pace that could not have been contemplated just six months ago,” academic James Laurenceson wrote recently. Take the escalation in recent weeks alone. Chinese … ( read original story…
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Chinese visit a temple for New Years in Beijing
Chinese pray at a temple as China celebrates the Lunar New Year in Beijing January 29, 2009. Tens of millions of Chinese around the world celebrate the Lunar New Year, one of the most important…
Tory critic dismisses China’s pandemic ‘excuse’ barring access to Kovrig, Spavor
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong says Canada’s recent virtual consular visits to Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor should have happened much sooner. ( read original story …)
Rohingya Repatriation: Start delay concerns Beijing
Beijing is concerned over the delay in the start of Rohingya repatriation, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming said yesterday during his call on Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. ( read original story …)
How Australia-China tensions have hit ‘lowest ebb in decades’
Tensions between Australia and China have recently read like the edge-of-your-seat part of a geopolitical thriller; no-one knows exactly where the story is going or how it’s going to end. “The … ( read original…
U.S.-China Trade War Gets Wrapped Up in Twist-Ties
Minnesota company’s plastic-and-wire closures—a fixture on bread bags—are at the leading edge of Washington’s tariff tiff with Beijing. ( read original story …)
China emerges from the pandemic
Less than a year since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China’s Wuhan Province, something nearly unthinkable has happened in this nation of 1.4 billion: a return to a kind of normalcy … (…
Sunday Journal: China emerges from the pandemic
Less than a year since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China’s Wuhan Province, something nearly unthinkable has happened in this nation of 1.4 billion: a return to normalcy, or at least what ……
China grants $90M to Sri Lanka after visit by top official
China has announced that it is providing a $90 million grant to Sri Lanka, two days after the island nation’s president sought help from a visiting Chinese delegation in disproving a perception that … (…
U.S. scrambling to hit back at China’s ‘magic weapon’ amid global power grab
World War II institutions created to uphold the international order, often using bribery and economic coercion to get its way. ( read original story …)
Forget Samsung And Google—Huawei Now Has A Serious New Threat In China
Now, at a headline level, Samsung is a huge beneficiary from Huawei’s U.S. woes. The latest blacklist restrictions to deny Huawei access to the chipsets needed to power its flagship smartphones looks … ( read…
China’s Insistence That Taiwan Isn’t a Country Starts Backfiring
The more China tells the world that Taiwan isn’t a country, the more Beijing’s adversaries are starting to treat it like one. ( read original story …)
China’s President Xi to Visit Shenzhen This Week, SCMP Says
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Shenzhen this week to oversee celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the special economic zone, the South China Morning Post reported … ( read original…
