Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India last week concluded with the unveiling of an ambitious new economic partnership aimed at firming up trade, energy and physical connectivity between the two countries and simultaneously helping the island nation overcome its continuing balance of payments crisis. Some measures included in...
India has blocked a $1bn (7.19bn yuan) bid by Chinese carmaker BYD to set up an electric vehicle factory in partnership with a local company. The Indian Government dismissed the plan from BYD and Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructures, citing national security concerns. The move comes three days after the Australian Government also blocked...
Words — from both Beijing and corporations — sound sweet, but reality is less encouraging. Beijing says that it is open for business and that it welcomes foreign investment but has made doing business in China more difficult than ever. Corporate executives speak of engaging China and then send...
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...