Taiwan’s economy expanded 2.98% in 2020, making it Asia’s fastest-growing in a year beset by Covid-19 disruptions. It even edged out China for the top spot for the first time in three decades. Besides …
Evergrande EV Dream Inches Closer With Inner Mongolia Test Drive
China Evergrande Group, the property giant with ambitions to take on Elon Musk in the world of electric vehicles, released photos and video footage of its first batch of cars undergoing a winter test.
China’s Sinopharm vaccine offered to elite few in UAE tourist deal
China’s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to the United Arab Emirates’ Covid-19 vaccination programme as part of a partnership to “bring tourism into …
China-Europe freight train from Kazakhstan arrives at Xi’an
A returning China-Europe freight train from Kazakhstan arrives at the Xinzhu Station of China Railway Xi’an Bureau Group Co., Ltd. in Xi’an City of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Feb. 3, 2021.
From Turkey to China to Norway, These Novels Take You Back in Time
Whatever you do, whatever you call your form of government, you end up with a sultan at the top.” When LOVE IN THE DAYS OF REBELLION (Europa, 496 pp., paper, $19) was first published in Turkey in 2001 …
Xi Jinping’s Top Diplomat Warns Joe Biden Not to Cross China’s ‘Red Line’
In a virtual address to the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Yang Jiechi urged President Biden to avoid the “misguided policies” of the Trump Era.
China, Russia Demand ‘Unconditional’ U.S. Return to Iran Nuclear Deal
President Joe Biden is under pressure from Moscow, Beijing and Tehran to come back to the accord as quickly as possible.
China’s defense lawyers run into a brick wall: ‘The order came from high up’
Disbarment of two attorneys who represented Hong Kong protesters detained on the mainland points to the heart of the democracy movement’s fears about Beijing.
Coup a further complication for tricky Myanmar-China ties
Before Monday’s coup, relations between Myanmar and China already were complicated by Chinese investments in its infrastructure and the Myanmar military’s campaigns along their shared border …
Biden’s China Policy to Be Steered by Team of Rivals
President Biden has stocked his China team with high-powered officials who have longstanding ties to one another, but different and possibly contradictory objectives in climate, human-rights and trade …