Thailand`s parliament on Tuesday said that Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is to succeed the throne and become King Rama X, the 10th king in the Chakri Dynasty. Whether Thailand will be able to realize sustainable and stable development in the post-Bhumibol era has been attracting growing worldwide attention.
It highlights the potential damage US President-elect Donald Trump could inflict if he makes good on his threat to start a trade war with China, the world’s second-biggest economy.
As China becomes involved more deeply in global affairs, one basic tenant of Chinese diplomacy has become increasingly clear: regional integration is what China advocates more vigorously than ever.
The Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative is addressing the world’s major concerns and the historical issues that hinder development, while playing a vital supplement role to the current international governance mechanism.
On the material front, China has become a major economic engine contributing to about 30 percent of the global growth in the post-global financial crisis era. The United Nations, which wants to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, should welcome Beijing`s effort to invest in developing countries and exempt the least developed ones from repaying the interest-free debts due at the end of 2015.
Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines since June 30, recently concluded a successful state visit to China. China is the first visit country outside of Southeast Asia that he’s visited. During this visit, he felt welcome with a high standard of reception in Beijing. His Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and other leaders, such as Li Keqiang and Zhang Dejiang, held meeting with him last Thursday.
China tends to prefer incumbent party successors with consistent policy lines. Trump`s lack of a governance track record and his unorthodox take on long-held Republican priorities could prove a headache for Chinese officials.
The Sino-Philippine relationship has been smoothly progressing since President Rodrigo Duterte visited China. According to local media outlets, Philippine fishermen are now allowed to fish near Huangyan Island, and Chinese officials from the Ministry of Agriculture have been sent to inspect the location.
China`s role in the global free trade process is believed to be uncertain after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a global trade pact, earlier today.
As China’s growth slows, an army of zombie enterprises has emerged. These zombie companies are heavily indebted, kept afloat only by continuous support from government and banks.
US-China trade and business relationships will not be easily affected by the US presidential transition, though some challenges still loom and the two countries will need to work together on tackling divergence, experts said.
The title signals political stability for the coming years and is good for China’s future reforms.
The cooperation between China and 16 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries boomed in the past year, experts and officials said days before the opening of an annual China-CEE summit.
The election of Trump as U.S. President is an event of world importance. It is therefore particularly important to apply to it the method in the Chinese saying "seek truth from facts."
A spate of uncertainties erupted as soon as Donald Trump stunned everyone and swept the US presidential election. Nobody knows what this entrepreneur-turned-president-elect will do after he swears in. Will he fulfill his commitments he made during the campaign, many of which are horribly disruptive?
South Asian academia has done a lot of research and had a lot of debates about China`s One Belt and One Road initiative. When Chinese scholars communicate with South Asian scholars, we found they still have some misunderstanding and misperception about the B&R initiative.
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Indonesian capital Jakarta in a massive demonstration against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Friday last week after accusations of blasphemy. Clashes broke out between police and protesters, leaving one dead and several injured.
Chenchen Chen, a Research Fellow of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, talks about the challenges of China`s reform of state-owned enterprises at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Asia & China programme.
Over the last few months, a number of events have exposed tensions on economic issues between China and Europe. Experts said China`s relations with the EU, its largest trading partner, are encountering some difficulties, but these issues are more like marital squabbles than outright divorce.
Recently, Chinese economists Justin Lin Yifu and Zhang Weiying held a debate on industrial policy. Upon reading Zhang`s subsequent article "Four Mistakes Justin Lin Yifu Made In Industrial Policy," I was surprised to find he had misread British and American history and developed an incorrect position on industrial policy.