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...
Chinese property tycoon Zhang Li admitted bribing a top San Francisco building official to win permits for a construction project and will not face criminal charges under an agreement he reached with US prosecutors. Zhang Li, 70, of Guangzhou, China, was charged by the US in 2021 and arrested last...
Lawyers continue to face systemic persecution for defending human rights in China, the Law Society of England and Wales warned.   The Law Society has raised its concerns with the United Nations (UN) as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).   The continuing erosion of judicial independence and the independence of the...
China has rolled over a $600 million loan to Pakistan, helping shore up the country’s foreign exchange reserves on the back of an IMF deal, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday.   This was in addition to over $5 billion in loans that longtime ally China has rolled over for...
As tensions between China and India have grown in the last few years, the countries wedged between them are becoming more strategically significant. The two competing powers have sought a buffer between them ever since their founding—1949 in the case of the People’s Republic of China, and 1947 for...
The latest data from China show the slowdown in the world’s second largest economy, reflected in significant deflationary trends, is not abating. Moreover, it is in danger of missing the already low official target of 5.5 percent growth this year.   According to official figures released on Monday, the economy grew...
Qin Gang Missing: In the past as well, senior Chinese officials have disappeared from public view. China's foreign minister Qin Gang has been absent from public view for an unusual period of time. He has not been seen for the past three weeks leading to speculation around his absence. A...
The UK and Germany, two of Europe’s leading economies, have taken affront to China’s use of economic prowess to force its political goals on others.   The recent reports suggest China is trying to create a world in which it is “going to be increasingly hard to… swim against the tide...