Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is exploring an opportunity to meet US President Donald Trump during her visit to the United States later this month, as Tokyo seeks to exchange views with
When I was working on this new podcast, one question kept showing up in my notes: Why does the idea of a “shared future” receive increasing global recognition now? Not ten years
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China has started granting licenses with extended terms to allow European companies to import critical minerals essential for industries including clean technology, automakers, and defense contractors, the European Commission’s trade chief Maros
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a rare and blunt rebuke to local officials for inflating growth figures and pursuing “reckless” development projects designed to produce superficial results rather than real economic
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China’s fossil fuel power plants are on course to record their first annual decline in electricity generation in nearly a decade, as a rapid expansion of renewable energy capacity increasingly meets the
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The dissolution of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party marks not just the end of a political organisation, but the symbolic death of institutionalised democracy in the city. After
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor The publication of China’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era in the last week of November is less a routine policy disclosure than a
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by Eric How did the world’s most advanced economy allow its crown jewels to slip quietly into the hands of a strategic rival? When did free trade mutate into a one-way transfer
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China is now leading research in nearly 90% of the world’s most crucial technologies, marking a sharp shift in global scientific dominance this century, according to an analysis cited by Nature. The
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Eric Meyer, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, used his opening statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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SolGold said on Friday it was minded to recommend an improved takeover offer from its largest shareholder, China’s Jiangxi Copper, valuing the gold and copper miner at about £842 million, as competition
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