China “fully” respects Denmark’s sovereignty and territorial integrity on the Greenland issue, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen in Beijing on Monday. China hopes Denmark will “continue to support China’s legitimate position on issues concerning China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Wang said, according to a ministry statement, days after […]
Read MoreChinese Vice Premier He Lifeng resumed talks with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Saturday afternoon in Geneva in a tentative first step towards defusing a trade war that is disrupting the global economy. Bessent and He were meeting in Geneva after weeks of growing tensions in which duties on goods imports between the world’s […]
Read MoreThe Chinese embassies in India and Pakistan on Friday (9 May) advised citizens to step up safety precautions and to be cautious about travelling to the South Asian countries, amidst the worst fighting in the region in nearly three decades. The nuclear-armed neighbours have been clashing since India struck multiple locations in Pakistan on Wednesday […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump said on Friday (9 May) that 80% tariffs on Chinese goods “seems right” as representatives prepared for weekend talks to contain a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet Chinese economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland for […]
Read MoreBy Khushboo Razdanin Washington US President Donald Trump has announced a trade agreement with Britain, marking the first such pact secured by his administration since launching a sweeping effort to overhaul the global trading system through tariffs, as he suggested a call with China’s leader Xi Jinping loomed and that levies on Chinese goods “could […]
Read MoreMichael Kugelman Foreign policy analyst In a recent interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke positively about India’s relationship with long-time rival China. He said normalcy had returned to the disputed India-China border and called for stronger ties. These are striking comments, because tensions have been high since a nasty border clash in the northern Ladakh […]
Read MoreDespite tense bilateral relations between India and China, following the Galwan Valley clash in 2020, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat push, India’s trade deficit with Beijing has crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time ever in the history of India-China bilateral relations, According to analysts, the recovery of India’s manufacturing sector, […]
Read MoreThe virus does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2 does, the Chinese researchers reported in the journal Cell, noting some of its limitations. A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19, raising the possibility that it could someday […]
Read MoreA group of 200 Chinese nationals plucked from scam centres in Myanmar crossed into Thailand and were flown home on Thursday, as part of a multinational effort to repatriate hundreds caught up in massive internet fraud schemes, a senior Thai minister said. For years, criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people to scam […]
Read MoreChina’s largest bubble tea and drinks firm, Mixue Group, is seeking to raise HK$3.45 billion ($443.66 million) in a Hong Kong initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing made on Friday. The company is selling 17.1 million shares at a fixed price of HK$202.5 each, the filings showed. Bookbuilding for the IPO starts on […]
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