Washington, DC , December 26: As the US marks the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, thousands of Chinese immigrants are crossing the US-Mexico border after witnessing a decline in the Chinese economy.
Zhongwei Wang, a Chinese national, made that journey this spring through Central America...
Beijing , December 25: The Chinese state media on Tuesday accused the Philippines of ignoring China's 'goodwill' and 'restraint' and warned the country against "causing trouble and chaos" in the South China Sea, Al Jazeera reported.
The Chinese-state-controlled newspaper The People's Daily issued the call in commentary published on Monday,...
Taiwan’s military drove away four attempts by Chinese forces to approach the island’s sensitive contiguous zone last month, Taiwan security officials said, in what they see as a ramped-up Chinese campaign to “intimidate” voters before key elections.
Taiwan officials have repeatedly warned that China is trying to sway voters toward...
The World Bank said in a report released on Thursday that despite a recent recovery driven by investments in factories and construction as well as in demand for services, China’s economy will slow next year, with annual growth dropping to 4.5% from 5.2% this year.
According to the report, the...
Members of the US House select committee on China pledged in its final hearing this year to do all they could to hold Beijing accountable for any cross-border targeting of activists, hours before the Hong Kong government announced HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties on five more opposition figures.
“We will do...
Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the world’s second-largest economy.
As the vessels enter the South China Sea, they ply waters increasingly controlled by China’s growing military, from the missile...
Amid China’s economy struggles to recover and unemployment remains high, the country’s indebted population is growing at a rapid rate.
Defaults by Chinese borrowers have surged to a record high since the pandemic, with authorities blacklisting 8.54 million people from economic activities ranging from using toll roads to purchasing airline...
DHARAMSHALA, Dec 14: The bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) conducted a press conference at Capitol Hill on Tuesday, highlighting the escalation of violence and harassment directed towards Tibetans and others by pro-China factions during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco.
Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ),...
Bangkok, Dec 14: China's economy will slow next year, with annual growth falling to 4.5% from 5.2% this year despite a recent recovery spurred by investments in factories and construction and in demand for services, the World Bank said in a report issued Thursday.
The report said the recovery of...
Hong Kong, Dec 14: Chinese aerospace company COMAC has showcased its domestically-developed C919 passenger jet in Hong Kong, giving officials and media a close-up look at the narrow-bodied aircraft.
A welcome ceremony for the C919 and an ARJ21, another Chinese-made jet made by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corp of China,...
