Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF
August 22
It is said that Mandarin is a nuanced language, where multiple meanings can be drawn and where even the tone in which it is spoken can completely change the meaning. What Deng Xiaoping said in 1989-90 has had many versions,...
TAIPEI, July 12: China's air force and navy staged a second day of large-scale exercises with fighter jets, bombers and warships to Taiwan's south and southwest on Wednesday, the island's defence ministry said, as Beijing keeps up its military pressure.
While China has not commented on the exercises, they are...
Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, is “erasing” the suffering of the persecuted Uyghur minority from internet searches in China.
Results from the tech giant’s Bing search engine show how its Chinese users are presented with different results from American users.
And in the most egregious example, Bing image results for...
SHIYAN, China -- Sales of Yizhuan Automobile Co.’s trash trucks picked up after China ended anti-virus controls in December, but their growth is in low gear as managers struggle to rebuild business lost during the pandemic.
China’s economy rebounded at the start of 2023, but after a good first quarter,...
The past six months has brought a stream of bad news for China's economy: slow growth, record youth unemployment, low foreign investment, weak exports and currency, and a property sector in crisis.
US President Joe Biden described the world's second-largest economy as "a ticking time bomb", predicting growing discontent in...
Failure to develop an effective strategy for dealing with national security threats from China has allowed their intelligence to aggressively target the UK, a report has said.
The report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said China has penetrated "every sector" of the UK's economy.
It accuses the government of failing to recognise...
In the last two decades or so, the white papers published by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China have become one of the prominent state-sponsored propaganda mechanisms of the Chinese government. Just within three weeks of the beginning of the new year (2024), on...
