Huawei will invest $1 billion in its auto business this year,with a focus on building components for smart vehicles, including self-driving software platforms. Rotating Chairman Eric Xu said Huawei’s autonomous-driving technology has already surpassed Tesla’s in some spheres, for instance by allowing cars to cruise for more than 1,000 kilometers without human intervention. He added Huawei will partner with three automakers initially to make self-driving cars that carry the Huawei name as a sub-brand. Huawei is piling into an already crowded pool, where automakers from U.S. leading firm Tesla to China's domestic makers Nio, Xpeng and Li Auto are battling for a slice of the world's biggest EV market.
Tensions continue to simmer along the disputed border between India and China after the latest round of talks ended with no sign of progress.
While the US-led anti-China forces pulling the political scheme of vilifying China by viciously fabricating a "forced labor" lie about Xinjiang, the northwestern region of China is embracing a prosperous future with booming China-Europe freight train service and a comprehensive development to be led by the framework of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
In the afternoon of April 8th, 2021, Ambassador of Israel to China Irit Ben-Abba had a cordial meeting with Prof. Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY). The two sides had an in-depth and frank exchange on global governance, international relations and education cooperation.
US President Joe Biden has invited 40 heads of state to the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22 and 23. This has heated up the global competition over the low-carbon economy. This new competition could even be called "a new global green and low-carbon economy war."
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed by CGTN Global Business on 12APR 2021, sharing viewpoints on market fears about liquidity tightening from authorities and challenges facing China amid global booming liquidity.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed Apr 08 by CGTN Global Watch, shared his opinions on Lessons from Poverty Fight and that China plays an active part in global poverty fight.
ISPI, the T20 National Coordinator and Chair, and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY) are co-promoting the T20 Associated-event “Sustainable Recovery for a Green Future”, in cooperation with CSIS, Ecologic Institute, ERIA, KIEP, OECD and SIIS. This Public Event is preceded by a closed-door Workshop by invitation only (see the programme), intended as an occasion to broaden participation in the Task Force (TF) “Climate Change, Sustainable Energy and Environment”.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed Apr 08 by CGTN Dialogue, shared his opinions on World Economy Outlook.
US President Joe Biden wants to spend $2.3 trillion on infrastructure, a move that is obviously stimulated by the "rival" China. But when massive construction work in the US begins, the Americans might feel the pain of "political decoupling" with China.
Liu Zhiqin was interviewed on Mar 25 by Global Business on CGTN, shared his opinions on IMF on World Economy, giving future framework for regional cooperation, outlook for BRI as governments focus on infrastructure and foreign businesses tapping into China's market.
The Joe Biden administration has really gone off the rails in its latest human rights report, giving the official imprimatur to labeling Chinese policy in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region "genocide." While this outlandish claim was made by the now discredited anti-China hawk Mike Pompeo, it has now been officially adopted by the "liberal" Biden administration, and solely based on unfounded rumors spread by the right-wing networks of German Adrian Zenz.
Can foreigners in China enjoy sufficient financial services? Yiwu, an export-oriented city in East China's Zhejiang Province, has made the country's first move to issue foreign merchant cards that provide foreigners with financial services to facilitate their online shopping, consumption as well as finance and investment needs.
On March 30, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a week-long trip to nations in the Middle East. He visited Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and Iran.
On March 30, 2021 International Seminar on "Green Recovery in Post-Pandemic Era" was successfully held by the United Nations Association of China in Beijing. More than 120 people including United Nations officials, well-known Chinese and foreign experts and scholars, representatives of universities, research institutions and social organizations participated in the meeting through on-site participation and video connection. Wang Chao, President of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and United Nations Association of China (UNA-China), presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Wang Wen, Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China(RDCY), was invited to attend and deliver a keynote speech.
China-based technology company ByteDance, following its video-sharing platform TikTok being banned last June, has reportedly encountered a new round of crackdown in India, with at least two of its bank accounts being blocked for alleged tax evasion.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to China. In July 1971, Kissinger, as national security adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon, held several rounds of talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in Beijing. The Chinese and U.S. sides addressed such thorny issues as Taiwan in a manner that was candid and full of wisdom. Kissinger’s visit paved the way for Nixon’s February 1972 China visit and the subsequent normalization of relations between China and the United States.
During his first news conference as president on March 25, Biden called China-US relations "a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st century and autocracies." He then told reporters, "We've got to prove democracy works."