With its strategy to distract the world away from its exploitation of Myanmar’s rare earth materials, Beijing is brazenly running a disinformation campaign against the US and Canada and targeting their businesses alleging they are environmentally irresponsible, according to analysts. Apparently, before 2008, the US was an important player in […]
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China offers women perks for having babies amid ‘severe’ demographic crisis
In a bid to increase its population and further help the country’s labour force, China is giving incentives such as tax and housing credits, educational benefits and even cash to encourage women to have more children. According to Global Times in January this year, the population of the Chinese mainland at the end of […]
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China’s once profitable railways record USD 900bn debt amid push for expansion
What was once China’s profitable high-speed railways is now heading towards a trillion-dollar disaster after reports of debt nearing a whopping USD 900 billion. Even in the face of mounting debt, China State Railway Group is doubling down on its expansion of what is already the world’s largest high-speed rail network, Nikkei Asia […]
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China wants instability in Myanmar: Southeast Asia expert Bertil Lintner
China wants instability in Myanmar, and wishes to remain a major controlling player in the politics of the Southeast Asian country, said veteran journalist and regional expert Bertil Lintner on Monday. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Myanmar on Saturday to attend a regional conference that the opposition views as a […]
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China urges Canada not to interfere in Hong Kong affairs
Beijing has urged Ottawa not to interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs after Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly asserted that the city’s freedom was being suppressed under Chinese authority. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, Chinese Embassy in Ottawa in a statement said external forces should not […]
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China warns ‘risks to economic ties’ with Germany amid change in Berlin’s policy
Germany’s new China strategy has irritated Chinese leadership as Berlin has now been trying to diversify its economic relations away from China and towards ‘democracies and partners with shared values’, as the German Indo-Pacific guidelines indicate. While Germany has been looking for an alternate or another trade partner, China warned that if Germany politicises […]
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China ‘renews’ yellow alert for Typhoon Chaba
With the third typhoon of the year, Chaba moving closer to Southern China, the country’s meteorological authority renewed a yellow alert on Friday. The typhoon which was observed on waters 250 km northeast of Yongxing Island in Hainan’s Sansha City at 5 a.m., will move northwestward at a speed of […]
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China urges to ‘avoid politicizing’ issue of proposed G20 event in J-K by India
China on Thursday urged to “avoid politicizing” the issue of the proposed G20 event in Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) to be organized by India. Zhao Lijian, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson while responding to a question on the proposed G20 event by India said that instead of focussing on the […]
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China retains zero-Covid policy while cutting travel quarantine to 7 days
Despite the palpable anger from the public, China on Wednesday retained its strict “zero-Covid” policy, while easing its quarantine policy for international arrivals from fourteen to seven days. China slashed the period by more than half in the biggest relaxation of entry restrictions in the country since the pandemic began, reported CNN. The nation has some of […]
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G7 Summit targets China’s Belt and Road Initiative to curb its global influence
This year’s G7 Summit held in Germany targeted China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to confront its global influence. Alina Wang, writing in Vision Times said that on the first day of the summit, US President Joe Biden announced plans to raise USD 600 billion in order to create a new G7 initiative — […]
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Russia-Ukraine conflict affects China’s BRI projects in Central and Eastern European countries
China’s ’17+1 initiative’ was severely impacted following the ongoing war in Ukraine, as most of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have started to become wary of foreign powers, including China. The ’17+1 initiative’ was formed in 2012 by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the business […]
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China to relocate 17,000 Tibetan people, claims to improve living conditions
Around 17,555 Tibetan people will be relocated away from high-altitude places in Nagqu City, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region under a relocation plan that aims to improve the living conditions of the people and protect the region’s fragile ecosystem. In the next one and half months, the people will move from places with […]
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Xi Jinping to visit Hong Kong, his first trip outside China since Covid-19 began
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Hong Kong next week to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s handover to China, the leader’s first trip outside the country since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Xi’s visit will include the attendance of the swearing-in ceremony of the city’s new leader John Lee. “Xi will […]
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China has gone back to its old ways in Myanmar
One of the most significant aspects of the 2021 military coup in Myanmar was China’s immediate assistance to the military by providing advisers and subsequently, military equipment. It must be said that China’s links with the Tatmadaw in Myanmar are historical. The government of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was only an interlude in this relationship. The strategic perspective of the current […]
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China braces for US ban on import of products from Xinjiang
The import of Chinese goods manufactured by forced labour in Xinjiang province will now be blocked after the US-sponsored Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act came into effect on June 21. The Act targets goods “originating from the northern autonomous region of Xinjiang” – a major manufacturing hub of China. The Americans brought […]