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
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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by Our Correspondent in Seoul Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump began a high-stakes summit in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, as investors and global observers looked for signs
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The United States used to be an ardent supporter of the rechristening of the Asia-Pacific region as the Indo-Pacific, and in all fairness, President Donald Trump should have included India in his
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There was some unrest regarding certain container transshipments prior to the removal of Bimal Ratnayake from the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation. These container transshipments belonged to a Chinese company. The
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China is accelerating its quest to become a global biotechnology powerhouse, using genetically modified animals in groundbreaking experiments that would face multiple ethical hurdles in the United States or Europe, Bloomberg reports.
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Tech billionaire Bill Gates has highlighted China’s rapid progress in nuclear energy, suggesting the country may soon challenge the U.S. and others in developing next-generation reactors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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