The United States “very much” understands Taiwan’s defence needs and the severe military threat it faces from China, a senior Taiwanese diplomat said on Sunday, following a summit between US President Donald
Hong Kong’s first-ever five-year plan will not alter the city’s capitalist system but will seek to make full use of its advantages in shaping the territory’s long-term development, Chief Executive John Lee
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Artificial intelligence agents are increasingly being deployed to design China’s next-generation semiconductors as Beijing and domestic technology companies accelerate efforts to integrate AI into chip design software and strengthen national self-sufficiency. Empyrean
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The enlargement of BRICS presents Africa with a wider field of economic possibilities by bringing the continent into closer relationship with some of the world’s largest markets, important sources of development finance
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President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to the United States must be understood as more than an encounter between two heads of state, but it must be seen as an encounter between two
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries, positioning the grouping at the centre
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo China and Sri Lanka should deepen bilateral cooperation while expanding their engagement with BRICS and the wider Global South, Professor Wang Lei, Director of the BRICS Cooperation
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo China’s Yunnan province is seeking to expand media cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and youth programmes with Sri Lanka, while promoting wider collaboration in culture, tourism, agriculture, digital development
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The 18th BRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13. This is already India’s fourth time assuming the BRICS rotating chairmanship, and the international community is closely watching
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Hungary’s new government is stepping up pressure on Chinese companies, reopening previously approved investment and funding agreements while tightening environmental regulations for factories, a shift that is beginning to disrupt plans by
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The return of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India marks a potentially important moment in the painstaking effort by the two countries to repair relations after years of military tension along the
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China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to build domestic alternatives to Nvidia, according to people
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, is expected to advance a cautious diplomatic thaw between the two Asian giants. Yet
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A week after a Chinese humanoid robot stunned spectators by running 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, nearly a second faster than Usain Bolt’s world record, its lead engineer is already pursuing a
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