Abdugheni Sabit has been closely watching the developments in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the government.
Sabit is Uyghur, a member of the Muslim minority group from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. As an exile living...
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Taiwan Seeks Entry Into Key Trade Pact Before China, Says Simultaneous Bid "Quite Risky"
China and Taiwan are increasingly entering a war of words as both are within the last week seeking to join the Comprehensive and Progressive...
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Sebastien Roblin
China, Asia
The Tigray conflict illustrates how affordable variants of advanced weapons are making their way into conflicts involving less wealthy actors too.
Since November 2020, a complex and tragic civil war has raged in the...
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This weekend, I watched horrific videos of Afghans being murdered by the Taliban. Meanwhile, the State Department has withheld permission for privately arranged flights to leave Afghanistan, and refuses to accept Afghans with valid documents who are...
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China’s new ambassador in D.C. isn’t buying President Joe Biden’s warning to the United Nations General Assembly about rising authoritarianism.
On Wednesday, Qin Gang issued an implicit rebuke to Biden’s U.N. speech, telling a crowd of China...
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The threat of Evergrande's bankruptcy has sent shockwaves through Asian and western stock markets with all them plunging into the red on 20 September. The Chinese development giant owes hundreds of billions of dollars to domestic and foreign banks,...
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The QUAD, a group comprised of India, the US, Japan, and Australia, has been trying to ensure uninterrupted trade even if tensions erupt with China. India and other nations have taken steps in the last few years to convince multinational companies...
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(Paul Mirengoff) China’s President Xi Jinping reportedly is moving down a Maoist path. If so, this is probably the most important development of 2021.
The Wall Street Journal reports on this development in a story with the headline:...
No single nation has been quite as furious with Biden over the Afghanistan defeat as India. Not only did India invest resources into Afghanistan, but the Taliban takeover means the triumph of the Pakistan-China coalition that threatens India’s...
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The Dow Jones soared more than 500 points on Thursday as fears of the Evergrande debt crisis subsided.China told Evergrande to pay its upcoming US-dollar denominated debt payments and avoid default, according to a...
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China’s top diplomat Thursday urged a virtual conference of G-20 foreign ministers to end economic sanctions against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to help the country tackle a looming humanitarian crisis and an economic meltdown.
Chinese Foreign...
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Leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India are expected to meet in person Friday in Washington to discuss cooperation in the Indo-Pacific in the face of China’s growing power in the region.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister...
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Shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME) rose 2.4% in morning trading Thursday as the sell-off that followed fears of China's largest property owner defaulting on its loans dissipated. The broad market indexes have regained all the ground lost since the China...
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At the core of former President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policies was a relatively simple—perhaps overly simplified—promise: Tariffs on Chinese-made products would drive manufacturers out of China.
"Many tariffed companies will be leaving...
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The apparent increase in hormone-induced cancers and disorders of the reproductive tract has led to a growing demand for new technologies capable of detecting nanogram per liter level endocrine disruptors. Scientists in China invented an...
Hi Quartz members,Steel is a competitive industry. Steelmakers worldwide have long had to grapple with fierce competition from rivals in China, whose overproduction puts pressure on everyone else. Now they must also try to decarbonize the industry,...
The undersecretary for the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security may be the second most important government job regarding China. He or she should implement controls to prevent China from gaining technology for its military, for...
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Criticism is growing of AUKUS, a new trilateral military partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that the countries say is needed to counter China’s growing power in the Indo-Pacific region. As part of the...
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Robert Farley
F-22,
China has a pretty crazy plan.
Here's What You Need to Remember: One report argued that China could defeat a force of 5th generation fighters by expending enormous numbers of older aircraft to force the US planes to use all...
Europeans and other western nations have dominated automotive excellence for over a century. Whether it is the satisfying thud of the door closing on a Volkswagen from Wolfsburg or the beauty of a Ferrari from Modena, these brands are iconic – and...
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