Oil prices rose sharply in Asian trading on Monday after US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear negotiations with Washington. The move
Sri Lankan authorities have launched a major crackdown on foreign nationals, primarily Chinese, engaged in large-scale internet-based financial fraud, with arrests now reaching into the hundreds as the cybercrime wave spreads across
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China’s political establishment has been shaken once again as President Xi Jinping expands his sweeping anti-corruption campaign, targeting another high-ranking member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite decision-making body. The investigation into
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All eyes were on the sky yesterday as NASA launched four astronauts on its Artemis II mission, a lunar flyby designed to test the agency’s hardware and procedures for returning humans to
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China is the world’s largest importer of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, yet experts say the country is unusually well-prepared to handle a disruption, according to Reuters. While other Asian
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China’s ascent as a global power has reshaped not only economic and political dynamics but also the international arms trade. Over the past several decades, China has steadily expanded its military capabilities
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China’s net overseas assets climbed 28 percent year-on-year to reach $4.07 trillion by the end of last year, marking a significant shift in its global financial standing. The surge was driven in
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China is cracking down on the growing practice of storing human ashes in unoccupied apartments, known as “bone ash” apartments, as a way to circumvent rising cemetery costs, according to the Financial
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The China–Taiwan dispute has entered a phase where history still matters, but numbers matter more. What began in 1949 as the unfinished business of a civil war is today measured in aircraft
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China has launched what is believed to be the world’s longest outdoor escalator system, a nearly one-kilometre engineering feat carved into the steep banks of the Yangtze River in Wushan, part of
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Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes’s Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy presents itself as a work of strategic diagnosis, yet it is as
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China has escalated its dispute with the United States over artificial intelligence by urging scientists and tech researchers to boycott one of the world’s leading AI conferences after its organizers barred submissions
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In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s school voucher program. The schools’ offense, according to the state’s announcement,
More China’s meteoric rise in global influence reflects a carefully orchestrated strategy of “peaceful rise,” according to Frontline India. Unlike historical challengers to American primacy, Beijing does not seek outright confrontation with the
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Chinese scientists have successfully tested a solid rocket engine at a simulated depth of 200 metres, far beyond the typical operating depths of submarine-launched ballistic missiles, raising the prospect of deeper and
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China is conducting one of the most extensive ocean-mapping campaigns in modern history, deploying dozens of research vessels to chart the sea floor and monitor underwater conditions in strategically critical regions. While
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