China has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used in solar equipment manufacturing, citing national security concerns in a move that could affect international efforts to develop domestic solar industries and access
China has expanded its zero-tariff policy to all African countries with which it maintains diplomatic relations, effective May 1, in a move described by analysts as the first unilateral, full market-access offer
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Defense analysts are urging a rapid overhaul of Taiwan’s unmanned systems strategy and naval force structure, warning that delays in standardization and fleet expansion could undermine the island’s ability to deter escalating
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has projected that global semiconductor revenue will surge past US$1 trillion this year and reach about US$1.5 trillion by 2030, driven largely by accelerating artificial intelligence demand and
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a closely watched three-day visit to China at a moment of heightened geopolitical tension, returning to Beijing for the first time
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The second day of a closely watched summit in Beijing saw Donald Trump attempting to downplay political friction with Xi Jinping after comments attributed to the Chinese
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Recently, through close coordination between China and Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan police repatriated 125 suspects involved in telecom and online fraud to China after they were arrested in earlier crackdown operations. On
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a new round of face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 14 to 15, a meeting arriving at a particularly
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U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “great leader” on Thursday as the two leaders opened a closely watched summit in Beijing aimed at stabilizing relations between the
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The “Colombo Maritime Dialogue” convened yesterday (13 May) in Peliyagoda, bringing together diplomats, policy experts, and maritime scholars from across Asia to discuss evolving security and development dynamics in the Indian Ocean
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From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to Donald Trump, who
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President Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One after landing in Beijing today, and the Chinese rolled out the red carpet: military honor guard, three hundred students waving American and Chinese flags,
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Last March, China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, proposed a China–India–Sri Lanka trilateral cooperation framework in Sri Lanka. He stated that such cooperation would be important for the region’s progress. He
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A political shockwave has hit Southern California after the mayor of Arcadia resigned and agreed to plead guilty to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government while holding public office.
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Former Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno appeared before Ecuador’s National Court of Justice in Quito on May 11 to face trial over alleged bribery and corruption linked to the construction of the Coca
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China’s industrial sector has recorded its fastest factory-gate inflation increase since the post-Covid period, with producer prices rising 2.8% in April compared to a year earlier, according to data cited by Bloomberg
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