August was a bad month for China. Mounting reports buttressed the view that China’s economy is not only in a downturn, but faces daunting long-term obstacles and declining confidence among its citizens.
Beijing objected to leaders from the United States, Japan and South Korea meeting together and calling for “peace and stability across the...
Tokyo , March 27: Building on the trend and goal of exporting the Chinese governance model, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote address at the Boao Forum on April 21, 2022, announced the idea of creating an “indivisible security community” through the proposal of the Global Security Initiative (GSI).
In his...
Geneva , January 23: China's human rights record is facing international scrutiny during the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, taking place from January 22 to February 2.
This review is a unique opportunity for member states to hold China accountable...
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) since 2012, President of the People’s Republic of China since 2013, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2014. He is one of the most powerful and influential leaders...
Tensions are escalating in Europe, but not due to conflicts in the Red Sea. The focus is on a different battleground – the undersea pipelines critical to the continent’s energy security. In October 2023, the Baltic Connector, a 77-kilometre gas pipeline running beneath the Baltic Sea between Finland and...
For the second year in a row, China's population fell.
Data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's population declined by two million in 2023 while the birth rate fell from 6.77 births to 6.39 births per 1,000 people — a record low.
China has been scrambling to...
The Philippines said its national security adviser and his American counterpart discussed China’s “coercive, aggressive and deceptive actions” amid heightening tensions between the two nations in the South China Sea.
The Philippine National Security Council said in a statement that Philippine National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano “expressed his appreciation for...
Although elected with a clear mandate to decrease Taiwan’s trade dependence on mainland China, President Tsai Ing-wen met with limited success in her attempt during the first term of her presidency. Indeed, China’s proportion of Taiwan’s overall exports reached an all-time high (43.9 percent) in 2020.
However, even without a...
TAIPEI: Taiwan again reported Chinese warplanes and warships around the island on Thursday (Nov 30), including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing keeps up its military activities ahead of Taiwan's January election.
Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained...
Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China.
This in itself was not unusual. Myanmar’s military government has...
