Belt and Road

In 1996, when only a few hundred thousand people were online in China, the government issued a historic edict. At the time, few people noticed Beijing’s move to bar unfiltered access to the global Internet. But this was the origin of the so-called “Great Firewall” – a separate Chinese Internet…

Hong Kong (CNN)After over four decades of saber-rattling and minor scuffles, a border dispute between China and India has again turned fatal. At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a bloody brawl with Chinese troops on Monday in the Galwan Valley, close to Aksai Chin, an area controlled by…

(Bloomberg) -- The European Union fired a warning shot at China over its global trade ambitions with an unprecedented tariff decision to counter Chinese subsidies to exporters.For the first time, the EU on Monday took aim at alleged market-distorting aid granted by a country to exporters located in another state.…

Jason Matheny, a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and the founding director of ... the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. NSACI Jason Matheny is a commissioner at the National Security Commission on AI and the founding director of the Center for Security and…

To take liberties with an African proverb, when elephants fight, it’s better to be the forest than the grass. Today, the elephants challenging each other are China and the United States. Yet, despite their differences, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have in common their dislike of any global effort to…

With the world's attention focused on the pandemic, Chinese troops have been establishing fixed positions in areas that even it considers to be on the Indian side of the disputed Line of Actual Control. The message is clear: China is now the region's preponderant power, and everyone else should fall…

By Lilian KarununganA would-be hub of Indo-Pacific commerce and global tourist gem, Sri Lanka was already struggling to deliver on grand visions before the coronavirus crisis struck the world economy. The next few months may determine its ability to avert a painful debt restructuring. The South Asian nation is locked…

China’s GDP shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter, which was its largest contraction since 1992. As one of the first countries to relax lockdown restrictions, China is now seeking to boost domestic and international demand. Despite over 80% of manufacturing returning to its former level by late February, consumers…

New Delhi: The step to retreat army from LAC that China took recently was a result of all-round pressure that India had mounted on it. Whether to answer China in its own language or to prepare a plan to defeat it by initiating talks with Trump, India has taken decisive…

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