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 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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