China has warned the European Union against expecting concessions through economic pressure, as Brussels moves towards developing a new instrument that could allow it to restrict Chinese companies’ access to the bloc’s
China is seeking to establish at least five innovative pharmaceutical products with annual global sales exceeding US$1 billion by 2030, an ambitious goal that reflects the country’s growing influence in biotechnology and
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China and the European Union have reached an understanding to reduce Chinese hybrid electric vehicle exports to the European market by more than half, according to statements following marathon trade negotiations in
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Investors are overestimating the risk of a military conflict across the Taiwan Strait, a senior US diplomat has said, arguing that deterrence and the prospect of substantial consequences would prevent China from
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Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has become a focal point of renewed political tensions after former Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen visited the United States and delivered a speech at Stanford University highlighting the island’s
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China’s export engine retains room to expand, but its longer-term prospects may increasingly depend on whether overseas economies can generate enough growth to absorb rising volumes of Chinese products. A Goldman Sachs
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China has established a new military facility in Laos, expanding its overseas military footprint into a country where Beijing has historically competed for influence with Vietnam. The China-Laos Joint Support and Training
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged stable and constructive relations with China while simultaneously defending a harder security posture that Beijing views as increasingly confrontational. The resulting gap between Tokyo’s diplomatic
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China is accelerating the development of ultra-deep oil and gas reserves as it seeks to expand domestic energy supplies amid global uncertainty, with advances in exploration and extraction technology enabling access to
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China is no longer treating robotics as merely an extension of artificial intelligence. Its universities, manufacturers, investors and startups are building an integrated ecosystem in which physics, mechanics, materials, AI and manufacturing
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China’s state television has released rare footage of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) counter-drone units conducting live-fire drills featuring laser weapons, high-power microwave systems and integrated missile-gun platforms, presenting the three technologies as
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China’s Ministry of State Security has warned of what it described as genetic resource theft and other cross-border biosecurity risks, citing cases in which overseas organisations allegedly entered ecologically sensitive areas under
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China should build a comprehensive national system to protect its growing overseas interests, including closer coordination between diplomatic, commercial, security and military authorities, according to an analysis published on a Chinese national
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On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has returned to the center of high-level diplomatic conversation. Endorsements from Iran, the United States
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China has taken another step towards reusable rockets, with two successful booster recovery tests bringing its state-owned and commercial launch sectors closer to a capability long dominated by SpaceX. The developments could
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JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva’s planned meetings with BJP leaders in India come amid the JVP’s longstanding relationship with China’s Communist Party, creating an unusual political juxtaposition between Beijing’s one-party model and
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