For a decade until 2018, China sought to recruit elite foreign-trained scientists under a lavishly funded program that Washington viewed as a threat to U.S. interests and technological supremacy.
Two years after it stopped promoting the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) amid U.S. investigations of scientists, China quietly revived the initiative...
Nathaniel Tapin says about China's debt laden economy and struggling property developers that this has been seen before. What matters most is the confidence household borrowers have in the country to buy homes and spend versus putting more money into savings. And this confidence that that has been the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped up pressure on Taiwan ahead of the January presidential elections in the island nation, using economic and military tactics such as a ban on importing Taiwanese mangoes.
What Happened: China is exerting its economic and military influence in an attempt to sway the upcoming Taiwanese presidential election.
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China has long been the engine of global growth.
But in recent weeks, its economic slowdown has alarmed international leaders and investors who are no longer counting on it to be a bulwark against weakness elsewhere. In fact, for the first time in decades, the world’s second economy is itself the problem.
Hong...
Brussels , August 24: Pakistan Christians community Europe staged a protest demonstration in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to show solidarity with Christian victims of the Jaranwala violence that occurred in Pakistan.
In the protest, the protesters expressed grave concerns over the religious freedom violations and stifling state...
When Erkin Tuniyaz, chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), visited the largest mosque in Urumqi before the Eid al-Fitr holy day marking the end of Ramadan, he used the opportunity to promote Beijing’s policy of assimilation of non-Chinese people in its far western regions.
“According to the arrangements and...
An unusually public claim by a Chinese professor that the country's youth unemployment rate might have hit close to 50% in March has revived a debate about official statistics and focused attention on a weak labour market.
The National Bureau of Statistics said that month's jobless rate for people between...
Relations between China and South Africa have entered a “golden era” and are set to deepen, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in talks in Pretoria on Tuesday.
“China is willing to work with to … deepen cooperation, strengthen collaboration and push the China-South...
Xiao Yi, a former senior provincial official who was sacked in 2021 for supporting cryptocurrency mining, will spend the rest of his life in prison for accepting bribes and abusing his power, a local court ruled.
Xiao, former vice-chairman of the Jiangxi provincial committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and...
Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng on Tuesday highlighted the need to “overcome difficulties together in the same boat” as he set the tone and agenda for US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s official visit to China.
He demanded the US “pay high attention” to the Chinese stance on bilateral commercial issues...
