In Hong Kong, decades of wealth gains evaporate on China’s watch | Business and Economy News
Taipei, Taiwan – Like many Hong Kongers, accountant Edelweiss Lam spent the last week watching the city’s stock market wipe out 14 months of gains…
Global split evident as China’s human rights record faces UN scrutiny | Human Rights News
Western states slammed Beijing’s actions in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, but others said they saw progress. A split was evident as China’s human rights record…
How the Philippines is missing China’s soft rebound
During the six-year Duterte era, the ties with China were recalibrated from friction and conflict to peaceful cooperation. In the past year, that period faded…
Landslide buries 47 people in China’s southwestern Yunnan province | Earthquakes News
Rescue efforts under way in mountainous area of southwestern China after pre-dawn disaster. Rescue efforts are under way in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province after…
Toward China’s soft rebound – Modern Diplomacy
As global business and political leaders swarmed to Davos for the World Economic Forum, Chinese Premier Li Qiang took the podium. Chinese economy has rebounded…
Purges in China’s military allow Taiwan some respite – for now | Politics News
Danny Jia was walking down a street outside Taiwan’s Taoyuan city in late December when he suddenly heard automatic gunfire. Not far from Jia’s location…
What Is Causing China’s Stubborn Deflation and When Will It End?
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessChina’s slide into deflation is proving hard for the world’s second-largest economy to arrest. Economy-wide prices last quarter marked their longest deflationary…
Ex-boss of China’s state-run bank Everbright arrested on corruption charges | Corruption News
Tang Shuangning is latest in long line of high-profile figures to be ensnared in Xi Jinping’s anticorruption drive. The former head of China’s state-owned banking…
China’s Drive for Record Coal Output Spurs Yet Another Deadly Accident
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessThe human toll of ever-increasing coal production in China is once again to the fore after thirteen were killed in a mine…
China’s Recovery Is Set to Be ‘Slow and Bumpy’ in 2024
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessChina looks all but certain to hit its growth goal of about 5% for 2023, shifting attention to whether deflation risks, the…
I’m preparing for China’s war on Taiwan | Close Up | Elections
This Taiwanese citizen is taking up arms in preparation for what he believes is an imminent Chinese invasion. “I think China will invade Taiwan between…
Xi vows to deepen China’s sweeping anti-corruption crackdown
President Xi Jinping vowed to deepen an anti-corruption campaign spanning several critical sectors, a move that risks freezing spooked decision makers and hampering China’s fragile…
‘A country but not a country’: Taiwan prepares to vote in China’s shadow | Elections News
Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan’s more than 19 million eligible voters will cast their ballots on Saturday for the island’s next leaders and lawmakers amid domestic economic…
Xi’s Solution for China’s Economy Risks Triggering New Trade War
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessChina’s shift toward high-value add manufacturing threatens to further raise trade tensions with the US, Europe and others.Author of the article:Bloomberg News…
China’s Xi says reunification with Taiwan ‘inevitable,’ ahead of crucial vote on island – POLITICO
Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country’s reunification with Taiwan was “inevitable” in his New Year’s address on Sunday, just weeks before the self-ruled island…
China’s appetite for Australian barley is back, three years after tariffs halted the near-$1 billion market
Three years after steep Chinese tariffs halted imports of Australian barley as tensions between the two countries ratcheted higher, the grain is once again flowing…
With his predecessors still missing from public view, Dong Jun is named as China’s defence minister
China has named former navy chief Dong Jun as its new defence minister, replacing the previous defence minister who disappeared from public view four months…