When Chinese air and navy force crossed the first island chain, the outlook that China will be the one to write the regional security rules has also become undoubtedly logical.
Cooperation between China and Tanzania faced difficulties in the last two years, as the economic outlook of the East African nation was not as good as expected amid restructuring
Recent South Korean opinion polls show support for Ban Ki-moon remaining persistently high. Although he still hasn`t announced his candidacy, he has spoken of his willingness to serve his country.
Trump may enhance the level of US-Taiwan exchanges and facilitate more bilateral interactions between military officials. He may also increase the arms sales to Taiwan, as long advocated by John McCain, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. This is highly likely since Taiwan authorities have agreed to increase its defense spending to 3 percent of the GDP.
China has reduced the U.S. government bonds it holds, thereby becoming the second largest holder of U.S. treasuries, behind Japan.
China`s decades-long reforms across industries have only left a small number of controversial industries untouched, such as salt, oil and telecom. To a large extent, putting an end to the State salt monopoly signifies the start of a new round of institutional reforms and can offer some insight for the future of those remaining sectors.
"Twitter president" Donald Trump drew in voters with his China bashing campaign, claiming that "China is the largest currency manipulator on the planet." Trump`s impending presidency seems to mean that a Sino-US trade war is approaching.
He Fan, Chief Economist of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, was interviewed by CCTV on Chinese economy.
In a little over a month since Donald Trump’s stunning victory in the presidential election, the president-elect has already, as he promised during the campaign, adopted a new thinking on China, most notably with his highly controversial remarks on the United States’ “one China” policy.
China and the European Union (EU) have gone through a bittersweet year in economy in 2016, stumbling over issues, such as the anti-dumping regime and "analogue country," while continuously advancing in trade, investment and strategic cooperation.
Discussions are heating up on global governance recently. Some believe that China, as a rising power, may replace the US to lead the world especially after US President-elect Donald Trump promised to quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership and withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. It has a good ground, but it may take a long time to be realized.
The multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) offers a genuine business opportunity for Chinese security companies to expand overseas, but only for a small circle of elite operators, said an executive at a leading Chinese security firm.
President Xi Jinping praised cooperation between China and the United Nations and reaffirmed China`s firm support for the organization in a phone conversation on Monday with outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
China has to realize its goal of environmental protection in the shortest time possible. In the future, the competitiveness and impact of the China model also need to be embodied to a greater extent by a blue sky.
With the current globalization mode being challenged by rising protectionism, China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (B&R) provides insight into building a new mode that better suits world development, said Chinese experts here on Monday.
Beijing and Washington have recently handled a maritime incident in a low-profile and proper way as the Chinese navy handed back an American underwater drone it had captured in the South China Sea. But worries over potential conflicts in the waters in 2017 remain.
Europe is entering a new stage in which unification principles are challenged and sub-regional cooperation strengthened. European countries, both core and marginal, eurozone and non-eurozone, as well as the northern and southern regions, are set to restructure their relationships through negotiations and competition. A new complicated process of repositioning their interests, preferences and identities has already begun.
China is expected to further promote its Belt and Road initiative next year against the backdrop of rising resentment over globalization and the new Donald Trump administration in the US, as the initiative will be linked with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at a summit hosted by China, experts said.
Two thousand years ago, merchants and caravans began moving between east and west along the Silk Road, trading goods, philosophy and technology. Now a modern Silk Road, rekindling trade and achieving common prosperity, is in the making.
China`s foreign exchange reserves, which have dropped to about $3 trillion from a peak of nearly $4 trillion two years ago, are currently adequate, said a State Administration of Foreign Exchange official on Thursday.