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 Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka has officially announced the launch of a new digital visa application platform, the “China Visa Online Application System”, which will come into effect on 30 June
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China’s struggling property market showed fresh signs of deterioration in May, reinforcing Premier Li Qiang’s recent call for “greater efforts” to halt its decline. New figures analyzed by the Financial Times paint
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When Gotabaya Rajapaksa was on the verge of declaring Sri Lanka bankrupt, a proposal was received from China through the then Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa. The proposal was to obtain a $4
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Editorial Note: The following column is based on a presentation delivered by Wu Ruoshan, Dean of the New Era Cultural Tourism Research Institute in Beijing, China on China-Inspired Strategies for Building World-Featured
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Editor’s Note: The following column is based on the presentation by Professor Wu Bihu,a leading Chinese scholar and professor at Peking University, specializing in tourism development, planning, and management, at the China-Sri
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Editor’s Note: The following column is based on remarks made by the author at the China–Sri Lanka–Maldives Tourism Forum held in Colombo on 16 June 2025. Today, we gather in the beautiful
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Until recently, Jiahao’s modest guest house in a quiet corner of Cairo mainly served Chinese tourists eager to see Egypt’s famed pyramids. But this spring, the hostel’s clientele changed dramatically. Instead of
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China’s corporate bond market has seen an unusually low number of first-time defaults this year, highlighting a significant shift in the country’s financial landscape as it grapples with economic headwinds. According to
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China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector is teetering on a financial knife-edge, as a deepening price war triggers liquidity shortfalls and mounting pressure on automakers’ balance sheets. An investigation by the Financial Times
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In a significant development aimed at easing long-standing trade tensions, the United States and China have reached what the President Donald Trump called a “done deal,” encompassing tariff reductions, rare earth exports,
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British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is under fire from human rights groups, political figures, and ethics experts for continuing to invest heavily in China despite the unexplained detention of one of its most
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China’s leading automakers, including BYD, Geely, and Xiaomi, have pledged to make more timely payments to their suppliers, following regulatory pressure from Beijing aimed at curbing controversial industry practices during a fierce
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The head of the Panama Canal Authority has voiced serious concerns that a $23 billion global ports transaction involving Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison could threaten the long-held neutrality of the strategic waterway.
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Central Huijin, the state-owned investment arm of China’s sovereign wealth fund, has emerged as a dominant force in the country’s financial markets, following an unprecedented surge in interventions aimed at supporting the
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by Luxman Aravind History may one day record that while Western democracies stagnated in performative dysfunction, a once-impoverished civilisation, under the stewardship of Xi Jinping and the CPC, executed the most expansive
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