NEW YORK/SHANGHAI -- New graduate Glonee Zhang had high hopes when he landed a job at a lithium battery company in Shenzhen last summer. Now, like more than one in five young people in China, he's out of work. An English major entering a post-COVID working world, Zhang thought "the...
The pictures posted on the Chinese company’s website show a tall, Caucasian man with a crew cut and flattened nose inspecting body armor at its factory. “This spring, one of our customers came to our company to confirm the style and quantity of bulletproof vests, and carefully tested the quality...
China has become an enigma to the entire world, India in particular. Although actual hot war conditions prevailed between Russia and Ukraine for over 500 days, the war against China in the South China Sea (SCS) has been going on ever since the Permanent Court of Arbitration decided the...
New Delhi: India gifted its in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam today in reflection of growing bilateral strategic and defence partnership amid common concerns over China's increasingly aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea. This is the first time that India handed over a fully operational corvette to any friendly...
China sent dozens of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan, marking a forceful display. That’s according to a statement Saturday from the island’s Defense Ministry. The move came days before the democracy plans to hold military exercises aimed at defending itself against a possible invasion. Taiwan says the Chinese...
The US is working with India on proposals to co-produce extended-range artillery and infantry vehicles to meet its operational requirements along its border with China and address its "coercion and harassment", a top Pentagon official said on Thursday. The Indian and Chinese troops are locked in an over-three-year confrontation in...
The US is working with India on proposals to co-produce extended-range artillery and infantry vehicles to meet its operational requirements along its border with China and address its "coercion and harassment", a top Pentagon official said on Thursday. The Indian and Chinese troops are locked in an over-three-year confrontation in...
The email accounts of Washington’s ambassador to Beijing and the State Department’s top official overseeing East Asia and the Pacific were reportedly breached by Chinese hackers. The hacking involving the accounts of Nicholas Burns, the US ambassador to China, and Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia...
As of Wednesday, China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been absent from the public eye for 24 days, marking more than three weeks since his last reported diplomatic meetings on June 25.   At the relatively young age of 57, he became one of the youngest foreign ministers in Chinese history...
BEIJING: An unusually public claim by a Chinese professor the country's youth jobless rate might have hit close to 50% in March has stoked a debate about official data and a soft labour market, despite curbs on negative portrayals of the economy.   The National Bureau of Statistics said that month's...