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China's arms exports have declined due to poor quality, and weak and inconsistent performance, which puts buyer countries in peril. In the last decade, China's weaponry exports have dropped by nearly a quarter, according to a report by the Directus. Furthermore, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is plagued by the...

GUANGZHOU -- China faces a shortage of millions of artificial intelligence professionals just as generative AI projects kick into full gear. "Along with large tech companies, startups, financial firms and others are looking for superior AI talent," said Angus Chen, head of AI staffing at Shanghai-based recruiting firm ManGo Associates. "Many candidates...

China is strengthening its economic ties with its neighbours in Southeast Asia through ASEAN, the region's political and economic union. As China recently hased out out details of a bolstered free trade agreement with ASEAN, it is worth considering another major trade project — the Belt and Road Initiative. he...

Proposed changes to a Chinese public security law to criminalize comments, clothing, or symbols that “undermine the spirit” or “harm the feelings” of China have triggered the concern of legal experts in China, who say the amendments could be used arbitrarily. China proposes a ban on clothing that ‘hurt nation’s...

Jiang Zaidong, a Chinese diplomat, arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday to assume charge as Beijing's new ambassador to Pakistan. Previously, he was the Ambassador of China in Laos. The Chinese embassy posted a message on the social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, saying that Jiang Zaidong was warmly...

China on Friday sought to deflect criticism that its objections to the proposals on Ukraine and climate issues were blocking an agreement at the G20 summit in New Delhi, saying it is participating in the discussions in an “active and constructive way.” Replying to questions on criticism by British...

Taking a veiled swipe at China and Pakistan, India slammed the attempts being made at blocking the “evidence-based” proposals to blacklist globally sanctioned terrorists in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Calling for urgent reforms of the top UN body, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj on...

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...

Since 2016 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been engaged in the mass repression of Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The most headline-grabbing element of this has been the arbitrary detention of at least 1 million Turkic Muslims (primarily those of Uyghur ethnicity) in...

With Chinese President Xi Jinping skipping a G-20 summit for the first time, Beijing is sending “deliberate signals” to India and the West by essentially downgrading its involvement in a key international forum, according to current and former officials and people familiar with Beijing’s thinking. Missing the summit, they said, conveys China’s...