Category: China
US bomber mission over South China Sea risks inflaming tensions ahead of Asean defence summit
Two US B-52 bombers have flown over the disputed South China Sea, in a move that could inflame tensions ahead of a key regional defence summit in Singapore where the US and [...]
» More
China orders evacuations after landslide blocks Tibet river
Around 6,000 people have been evacuated following a landslide in Tibet that blocked the flow of one of the region’s key rivers, China’s emergency services said [...]
» More
China Is Sending a Second ‘Moon’ Into the Sky to Save Money
Moonlight might be romantic, but it’s really not all that useful. At only 1-400,000th the brightness of the Sun, the moon is usually not enough to illuminate the night. [...]
» More
China backtracks on horse racing, gambling for island province
China has backtracked on plans to promote horse racing and potentially introduce gambling on the southern island of Hainan amid a campaign to develop the destination as a [...]
» More
Mattis to meet Chinese counterpart amid tensions
US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is set to meet his Chinese counterpart Thursday after earlier talks were scrapped amid soaring tensions between the nuclear powers over trade [...]
» More
China’s Geely ‘corrects’ rumours about presidential family ties
Chinese carmaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd, long the subject of speculation about its political ties, has moved to dispel a widely held belief its chair’s wife was [...]
» More
China not manipulating currency but lacks transparency, US says
Washington on Wednesday again declined to call China a currency manipulator but said the yuan’s fall and Beijing’s exchange practices were of “particular [...]
» More
US doesn’t call China ‘currency manipulator’ but keeps it on a watch list with Germany, Japan, others
* The Treasury refrained from calling China a currency manipulator but kept it on a watch list with other countries, including Germany, Japan, Switzerland, India and Korea. * [...]
» More
China reflects after woman kills herself and family when husband ‘faked death’
The suicide of a woman in Hunan province who drowned herself and her two children after believing her husband had died has shocked China, prompting a national debate about [...]
» More
Mattis to seek more resilient US ties with China’s military
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will seek more resilient military ties during talks with his Chinese counterpart in Singapore slated for Thursday, a US official said, as both [...]
» More
Baidu becomes first Chinese firm to join US-based group that addresses the ethics of AI
Baidu, operator of China’s largest internet search service and a national champion in artificial intelligence, has become the first Chinese company to join a US-based [...]
» More
South China Sea is Beijing’s top foreign policy priority with developing nations, US think tank says
Southeast Asia is the top priority in Beijing’s foreign policy with the developing world despite its unresolved territorial disputes over the South China Sea, a [...]
» More
JD.com spies profits in China’s giant parcel delivery market
Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc said on Thursday it would add a FedEx-style parcel delivery service to its e-commerce offerings, a move which could help the firm leverage [...]
» More
Trump pulling out of pact that discounts foreign postal deliveries in move against China
The Trump administration will begin withdrawing from a United Nations pact that offered low rates for foreign postal deliveries of small packages in the United States, the [...]
» More
Chinese mining firm successfully test-fires supersonic missile; may sell to Pakistan: Report
A Chinese mining company has claimed to have successfully test-fired a supersonic missile, touted as a potential competitor to the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos missile, [...]
» More
