China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the United States said on Thursday, warning the trend could lead to a “sharp contraction” of global freedom of expression. The US State Department said in a report that Beijing has spent billions of dollars annually on information manipulation […]
Read MoreBeijing : China launched its first high-speed rail line that will travel across several bays and skim along the coast of the southeastern province of Fujian near the Taiwan Strait, state media reported on Thursday. A bullet train departed from Fuzhou, the capital of east China’s Fujian province Thursday morning, setting up the opening of the […]
Read MoreBeijing : China has sentenced a high-profile Uyghur academic to life in prison on charges of “endangering state security”, a US-based rights group said, citing a Chinese government source. Rights advocates have accused China of launching a mass internment campaign targeting Uyghurs, along with abuses such as forced sterilisation and cultural repression, termed “genocide” by some […]
Read MoreChina is willing to work with South Korea to promote a strategic partnership to develop with the times, President Xi Jinping told South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Saturday, amid rising tensions surrounding Russia, the United States and North Korea. Xi held talks with Han in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou before the […]
Read MoreBeijing : China’s long-term military modernisation efforts are bearing fruit, with a string of upgrades for its warships and warplanes under way amid intensifying tensions in the Indo-Pacific, particularly the Taiwan Strait. NEW HELICOPTER ENGINE China showcased a 1,100-kilowatt turboshaft helicopter engine at a helicopter expo in Tianjin last week. A Chinese military expert told Reuters […]
Read MoreHangzhou: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has arrived in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou, kicking off his first visit to the Asian nation since 2004 as he makes further strides to end more than a decade of diplomatic isolation amid Western sanctions. Assad arrived aboard an Air China plane in a heavy fog, which Chinese state […]
Read MoreNew York: European Council President Charles Michel will ask China directly at the United Nations Security Council to do more to push Russia towards a “just peace” in Ukraine, according to his draft speech seen by Reuters at the UNGA. At the Security Council meeting held on Wednesday during the annual high-level U.N. General Assembly in […]
Read MoreNew York: US climate envoy John Kerry met Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in New York City on Tuesday, and emphasized the need for China to “raise ambition” in efforts to accelerate decarbonisation and reduce emissions of methane, the State Department said. Kerry recently visited China and met his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, with the two […]
Read MoreChina’s industrial output and retail sales grew at a faster-than-expected pace in August, but property investment slumped further and could drag on broader demand even as the recent flurry of support policies showed signs of stabilising the economy. Industrial output, released on Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), rose 4.5% in August from […]
Read MoreBeijing : Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu abruptly pulled out of a meeting with Vietnamese defence leaders last week, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter said, amid questions about his more than two-weeks-long absence from public view. Li, 65, was due to attend an annual gathering on defence cooperation hosted by Vietnam on its […]
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