China and Vietnam sign new deals amid US trade tensions
China’s President Xi Jinping called on Monday for stronger ties with Vietnam on trade and supply chains amid disruptions caused by U.S. tariffs, as he attended the signing ...
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China vows to ‘fight to the end’ as Trump escalates global trade war
China refused to bow to what it called “blackmail” from the United States as a global trade war ignited by President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs showed little sign of ...
China hits back with tariffs and sanctions warning to US
China imposed targeted tariffs on US imports on Tuesday and put several companies, including Google, on notice for possible sanctions, in a measured response to the sweeping duties on Chinese ...
French privacy watchdog to quiz DeepSeek on AI, data protection
France’s privacy watchdog said on Thursday it will question DeepSeek to gain a better idea of how the Chinese startup’s AI system works and any possible privacy risks ...
Chinese associate of Prince Andrew banned from UK as national security risk
A Chinese businessman, who had forged close links with Prince Andrew and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China, has been banned from Britain on ...
House education committee focuses on youth cooperation with China
The strengthening of bilateral cooperation and exchanges between young people from China and Cyprus was discussed on Wednesday by members of the House education committee with a delegation of young ...
Changing economic policy in China could have decisive global impact
At present, global interest appears to be focused on geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East and the evolution of interest rates in the US and eurozone, as well ...
China scraps visa requirements for Cypriots, Christodoulides hears in New York
China has decided to abolish visa requirements for Cypriot nationals, it was reported on Friday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the move to President Nikos Christodoulides during a meeting ...
US imposes sanctions on Chinese suppliers to Pakistan’s ballistic missile program
The U.S. State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Chinese research institute and several companies it said have been involved in supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile program.
Washington ...
US-China rivalry and the rise of India
In recent years, the Indian economy has been growing rapidly, while also gaining ground amid rising tensions between China and the US, as well as the EU.
The underlying circumstances ...
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China’s Huang and Sheng win first gold of Paris Games
China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao won the first gold medal of the Paris Games on Saturday in the 10 metres air rifle mixed team event.
Keum Ji-hyeon and Park ...
TikTok says US ban is inevitable without a court order blocking law
TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app in the United States ...
US lawmakers advance bill to make it easier to curb exports of AI models
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill that would make it easier for the Biden administration to restrict the export of artificial intelligence systems, ...
A new world order really is in the making
The beginning of the end of Pax Americana
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on a state visit to China declared a new era in international relations. Well, he would say ...
China and the opportunity from its development of new quality productive forces
Supporting a global economic recovery and green development
By Liu Yantao
The “China collapse” and “China has peaked” rhetoric seems to be resurfacing recently in a part of the world. ...
China’s Xi Jinping says China-Hungary relations an ‘all-weather’ strategic partnership
China and Hungary will embark on a “golden voyage” in bilateral relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said after meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the third and final stop ...
China launches sample-return spacecraft to moon
By Robert Morgan
China has launched a mission to the dark side of the moon to collect lunar soil samples and return them to Earth, it was announced Friday.
The ...
Germany suspects AfD staffer in EU parliament of spying for China
An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of “especially severe” espionage for China, the latest ...
Two years into the Ukraine crisis, what’s next?
By Yi Xin
On February 24, the Ukraine crisis marked its two-year anniversary. Despite the bloodshed on the battlefield and suffering of innocent lives, fighting continues with no sign of abating.
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Shein to face tough EU online content rules as users in region soar
Chinese-founded fast-fashion company Shein is set to face stricter EU online content rules after reporting a huge number of users, joining a group of companies that includes Meta Platforms META....
India on track to become one of largest economies
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
In recent years, India has experienced strong economic growth. In 2023, its GDP grew by about 6.5 per cent and a similar performance is expected in 2024. ...
China breaks heat records in 2023 as sweltering weather baked cities from north to south
The heat in China was relenting in 2023 with temperature records broken from Beijing to Shanghai, echoing the global heatwave phenomena that also engulfed most of the world and raised more ...
China bans export of rare earths processing tech over national security
China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to extract and separate the critical materials on Thursday, the country’s latest step to protect ...
Five senators ask Biden to impose China travel ban after respiratory illness cases
Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory ...