BEIJING — China will never pursue hegemony, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday as global concerns persist over the country’s growing economic influence.
During a speech to mark 40 years of market reforms, Xi repeated China’s commitment to a...
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The meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the G-20 summit meeting in Argentina failed to yield a new trade deal, it did, however, yield a 90-day truce. But Trump has already signaled that if there is no "real deal"...
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Every time you see congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showing up in the news, she almost always begins preaching the “Green New Deal” that she spoke of endlessly on the campaign trail. Under this plan, we would supposedly move...
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John Lee
ASEAN, Asia-Pacific
It is time for Southeast Asian states and ASEAN to think, act and speak consistently and clearly for its own interests—or else court irrelevance and ruin of its own strategic objectives.
THE 2017 National Security...
The $1.4 billion package is aimed mostly at taking care of the immediate budgetary requirements of the Maldives. The current dispensation in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation claims that the country owes a huge debt to China, the volume of which...
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BEIJING (Sputnik) - China opposes Japan’s criticism of its military development as well as incitement of a so-called Chinese security threat in Tokyo's recently approved defense guidelines, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Guest post by Roger Stone
Yesterday I settled a lawsuit regarding a a story I reported for InfoWars regarding a Chinese businessman , Miles Kwok who is fighting extradition to China where he faces charges of financial crimes.
The Wall Street...
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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis ChowdhuryKUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY, Dec 18 2018 (IPS)The notion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later, South Africa) was concocted by Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill. His 2001 acronym was initially seen as...
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Shenzhen is one of the biggest cities in China. It’s a business hub, one that has its sights set firmly on becoming a global business leader in the future. It’s also leading in some other respects. Shenzhen now has the world’s...
President Xi Jinping vowed Tuesday to push ahead with China’s “reform and opening up” but warned that no one can “dictate” what it does, as the Communist Party celebrated the policy’s 40th anniversary. While he...
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Google has stopped developing its censored search engine for China, known as project Dragonfly. The tech giant was forced to shut down a data analysis system used for its development after members of the company’s privacy team objected to it,...
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Wang Aizhong, a 42-year-old doctor and activist based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, woke one morning to a flurry of verification codes on his phone linked to accounts like Twitter, Chinese question-and-answer site Zhihu, and...
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Xi calls for China to ‘stay the course’: CNBC
World stocks fall on Tues as Fed appears set to raise rates: Reuters
S&P 500 dropped to 14-mo low on Monday: Reuters
German business confidence eased for 4th straight month in Dec:...
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360 Finance, an online consumer loan platform that spun off from China’s anti-virus service giant 360 Group, has joined a raft of Chinese fintech companies to go public in the U.S. over the last two years.
The company priced its initial...
It appears Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of telecoms equipment maker Huawei, might no longer be one of the Communist Party’s favorite entrepreneurs.
The party had named Ren as one of the 30 most outstanding figures (link in Chinese) when China...
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China is far and away the world leader when it comes to deploying facial recognition technology to maintain law and order (and, of course, the Communist Party's iron grip on the levers of power). But it looks like the UK is making some important...
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SHANGHAI, China — In no place was China’s growing obsession with electric cars more evident than inside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on Saturday night, where the Chinese electric automaker NIO unveiled its new crossover SUV,...
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Japan will accelerate spending on advanced stealth fighters, long-range missiles and other equipment over the next five years to support U.S. forces facing China's military in the Western Pacific, two new government defense papers said.
The plans...
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Mexico has a plan to deal with migrants: develop Central America, ideally with U.S. help. If not, it may turn to China, a powerful player in the region.
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There was much anticipation ahead of tonight speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 40th Reforms Anniversary Event.
Hope was high for Xi to highlight potential new reform measures, growth initiatives, and - what the markets want most -...
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