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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s economy is more dependent on exports than it has been for most of the past two decades, leaving it vulnerable to a new broadside on trade from President-elect Donald Trump.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A technology tussle between the two superpowers is never far away. This week the Wall Street Journal reported a breach of American telecoms networks by a Chinese hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon", which was seemingly intended to glean knowledge about American wiretapping activities.

Britain’s Treasury chief is travelling to China this weekend to discuss economic and financial cooperation between the countries, as the U.K.‘s Labour government seeks to reset frayed ties with Beijing

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China started the year with a broadside against U.S. defense contractors, responding to recently ramped-up Taiwan arms sales by the Biden administration and laying down a fresh warning to President-elect Donald Trump of tools Beijing can use to protect national interests.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s President Xi Jinping had a message for Taiwan in his New Year’s speech. “We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same family," he said.

President Xi Jinping underlined that no one could prevent China's 'reunification' with Taiwan, and affirmed that China will continue its «united front» efforts.

China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday. The victims were exercising at a sports center.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s external trade, navigating a phase of uncertainty owing to the European Union's new carbon tax on imports and slowing consumption in Europe, is set face further pressure. The US will likely seek lower tariffs in the coming year as President-elect Donald Trump, who has charged New Delhi with imposing high tariffs, assumes office in January.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The global economic landscape is becoming increasingly interlinked and dynamic. Despite multiple shifts, 2023 saw global merchandise exports worth over $24 trillion, an increase of 6% over 2019, demonstrating resilience in the face of disruptions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For decades, a global guessing game has focused on whether the people of China will tire of single-party rule. Any failure to sustain a heady pace of economic expansion, went one hypothesis, would stir mass discontent and put its Communist regime on notice.

Chinese leaders met this week to plot economic policy for the coming year and sketched out plans to raise government spending and relax Beijing's monetary policy

Donald Trump is all set to take charge as the 47th President of the United States. The swearing-in ceremony will be held on January 20. High-profiled guests are expected to attend the event. The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had not received an invitation to attend the January 20 inauguration of the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. CBS, citing multiple unidentified sources, said that Trump had invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend. Meanwhile, President-elect Trump, who has both derided Time magazine and pined for its approval, was named the publication's person of the year on Thursday.

Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Russia in October «signified a new beginning» of India-China relations, a senior minister of the ruling CPC has said. Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party of China (CPC) was referring to the Modi-Jinping meeting at Kazan in Russia on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia while speaking with the Indian envoy to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat, on Tuesday, official media said on Wednesday. The restarting of China-India relations meets the fundamental interests of the 2.8 billion people of the two countries, corresponds to the common expectations of the Global South and is also in line with the correct direction of history, he said.

Chinese official broadcaster CCTV says a former chairman of the state-owned bank China Everbright Group has been jailed 12 years for embezzlement and bribery

Huawei Technologies Co. for breaching US laws shocked President Xi Jinping’s inner circle and raised questions over whether Donald Trump would intervene in the case. Trump now faces a similar dilemma after US prosecutors charged Gautam Adani — India’s most powerful businessman and a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — in a $250 million bribery scheme. While Modi’s party called it a private matter, and Adani’s company denied the allegations, the case threatens to roil US-India diplomatic ties. Although Trump didn’t intervene in the Huawei case, which was eventually settled in 2021 after he left office, on its face he’ll have more incentive to make this case go away. Beyond Trump’s personal connection with Modi, the incoming US president has packed his team with China hawks who want to see stronger ties with India to counterbalance Beijing’s power in the region.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On his first day in office, leader Xi Jinping inherited an ambitious road map to build 10,000 miles of high-speed rail to link China’s biggest cities. He took those plans and supersized them.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has welcomed China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two countries that analysts say may accelerate as Donald Trump...

Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning p...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HONG KONG—Jimmy Lai came to Hong Kong in 1961 as a boy smuggled on a fishing boat, a refugee who left mainland China because his mother was afraid he would starve to death in the turmoil following the Communist takeover there. He rose from child laborer to clothing tycoon and media baron, living in a colonial mansion filled with books and flowers.

New York Post reported that the photograph featured other world leaders which included Chinese President Xi Jinping prominently positioned at the center while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was less visible in the back row. Also Read: Lionel Messi-Argentina vs Peru free live streaming: Prediction, kick-off time, how to watch