Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that Chinese espionage activities could target German research institutions involved in cooperation with Chinese universities, citing insufficient awareness of security risks within parts of the research
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 came as fresh Chinese data showed industrial profit
A Chinese medical doctor with a PhD has left a prestigious hospital career to work as a food-delivery rider, breakfast seller and pub singer,
Southeast Asian businesses are looking to China’s newly opened Pinglu Canal to reduce transport bottlenecks and provide direct access to markets deep inside the
The recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and former US President Donald Trump in South Korea has been hailed as a historic breakthrough in bilateral relations, with Beijing seeing it as
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Scientists in China have developed a new kind of chip that abandons the binary world of 1s and 0s for an analog approach, performing calculations directly on physical circuits. According to the
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the most advanced artificial intelligence chips produced by Nvidia will be kept out of China and reserved solely for American companies. In a taped interview aired
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The Pakistan Navy is set to bring its first Chinese-designed submarine into active service next year, Admiral Naveed Ashraf told Chinese state media, marking a significant boost to Islamabad’s naval capabilities and
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Hong Kong is set to ease rules governing crypto trading to encourage greater activity in the city’s digital asset market, Bloomberg reports. Julia Leung, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Securities
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The brevity of the US President Donald Trump’s meeting last Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Gimhae International Airport in the port city of Busan, South Korea, which lasted just 100
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India is planning to expand its rare earth magnet incentive program to more than 70 billion rupees ($788 million), nearly three times its original $290 million allocation, Bloomberg reports. The proposal, currently
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North Korea has rejected South Korea’s renewed efforts to discuss denuclearization, calling the idea a “pipedream” and reaffirming its stance as a permanent nuclear weapons state. In a statement issued on October
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Asia-Pacific leaders concluded the annual APEC summit in South Korea on Saturday with a joint declaration emphasizing the need for resilient and mutually beneficial trade, amid mounting fractures in the global trading
More China is set to remove a decades-old tax incentive for gold buyers, a policy shift that could increase costs for consumers in one of the world’s largest bullion markets. Starting November 1,
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts adapted from an interview with Professor Jiang Xueqin conducted by Cyrus Janssen. “I see geopolitics as a game among different players,” Professor Jiang
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China’s President Xi Jinping and Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju on Friday, holding their first formal discussions as leaders amid
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China’s manufacturing sector experienced its longest decline in more than nine years in October, as factory activity continued to falter under domestic and global pressures, Bloomberg reported Friday. The official manufacturing purchasing
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments unleashed a barrage of unprecedented sanctions aimed at strangling Moscow’s war economy. From semiconductor exports to banking
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BYD Co., the world’s largest electric-vehicle (EV) maker, reported a sharp decline in third-quarter profit as mounting domestic competition and heightened industry scrutiny weigh on its sales outlook. The Shenzhen-based automaker said
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