China has mapped out its imperial ambitions—literally. Last Monday, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released its new “standard map,” which includes not only Taiwan, but also parts of the maritime zones of the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It also includes land that China disputes with India—and even...
The Dutch government is planning to publish new export controls that will restrict more of ASML Holding’s chipmaking machines from being sent to China as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The measures, which the government previously pledged to publish before the summer, will not...
An unusually public claim by a Chinese professor that the country's youth unemployment rate might have hit close to 50% in March has revived a debate about official statistics and focused attention on a weak labour market.
The National Bureau of Statistics said that month's jobless rate for people between...
The Hamas group shocked the world in October this year as it unleashed a completely new modus operandi of death, destruction and havoc. While the concept of violent non-state actors gained widespread traction in international relations post 9/11, the breach of Israeli sovereignty, in which gunmen went from home...
Beijing , April 25: China hosted 1,807 economic and trade exhibitions with a total exhibition area of 55.76 million square metres in 2022, according to a report on the country's convention and exhibition industry released by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
Reports pointed out that major exhibitions, including the China International Import Expo, the China Import...
The email accounts of Washington’s ambassador to Beijing and the State Department’s top official overseeing East Asia and the Pacific were reportedly breached by Chinese hackers.
The hacking involving the accounts of Nicholas Burns, the US ambassador to China, and Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia...
On August 22, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the forcible separation from their parents and indoctrination of one million Tibetan children, which had also been denounced by the United Nations.
Blinken announced that, “The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions under the...
New Delhi: After a shake-up in the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) made news, PLA’s Military Court president Cheng Dongfang was removed from his position, barely after eight months in office.
Cheng was removed after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) voted on a group of changes...
BEIJING: A dinner reception last week to commemorate the establishment of modern China saw several important military personnel missing in attendance, pointing towards an ongoing military crackdown in China, which has left Beijing's political circles wondering about President Xi Jinping's objectives.
The report in the Japanese daily by Katsuji Nakazawa,...
KATHMANDU: Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested four more Chinese nationals in connection with the gold smuggling attempt from the Tribhuvan International Airport that took place on July 18 this year.
The CIB arrested the suspected Chinese nationals from various locations of Kathmandu after an overnight...
