ISLAMABAD -- Two decades of Chinese lending to Pakistan totaled about $21 billion more than previously thought, a study revealed this week, while also showing that the cash-strapped South Asian country has the biggest China-funded energy portfolio in the world. AidData, a research institute at William and Mary University in...
The Philippine foreign ministry has once again accused China of intruding into its waters after an incident involving the two countries’ military vessels at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea earlier this week. In a statement yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs responded to an earlier claim by the...
When police showed up at Su Haijin’s lavish apartment in Singapore one early morning in August, he leapt from his second-floor balcony. The ethnic-Chinese businessman was found hiding in a drain with broken legs. The police meanwhile arrested nine other suspects in what Singapore has described as one of...
China is cracking down on weather stations it says are spying for foreign countries, the latest measure in a broad counter-espionage campaign under leader Xi Jinping amid intensifying geopolitical tensions. The country’s civilian spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, said Tuesday it had discovered hundreds of what it said...
In a major development in Apple’s manufacturing plans in India, Apple will start assembling the iPhone 17 in its Indian factories, before anywhere else in the world. This is the first time that Apple will be developing the manufacturing process outside China. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, an expert on...
MANILA: The Philippine foreign ministry on Thursday accused China of intruding into its waters after an incident at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea earlier this week. China's military had said on Monday that a Philippine military ship "illegally entered" waters near Scarborough Shoal. "It is China that is intruding into Philippine waters," the Philippine...
China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control next week, the first such talks since the Obama administration, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday after a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington that the two countries would hold “consultations...
The top members of a U.S. House committee on China are introducing a bill that seeks to ban the U.S. government from buying Chinese drones. Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the committee, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the ranking Democrat, are introducing the "American Security Drone Act" on Wednesday, the lawmakers...
Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships faced off in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea again on Wednesday, with both countries saying they deployed patrol ships to urge the other side to leave the territory. The disputed islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, are...
China and the United States will discuss nuclear arms control next week, the first such talks since the Obama administration. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday after a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington that the two countries would hold “consultations on arms control and non-proliferation” in the...