Belt and Road

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - China has protested against Malaysia filing a submissihere with the United Nations last week seeking to establish the limits of Malaysia's continental shelf in the northern part of the disputed South China Sea, the South China Morning…

Now is the time for policy makers to fix the underlying structural defects in the global order. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Project Syndicate) This being December, my natural inclination is to review the past years economic and financial developments to…

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, revealed he is in talks with China to join its Belt and Road Initiative, as he looks for funding to rebuild Syria and Beijing looks to extend its influence in the region.  Assad said he has proposed a number of projects…

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kongs besieged leader arrived in Beijing for meetings with senior Chinese officials seeking to end pro-democracy protests that have raged for more than six months. Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose administration has been fiercely critici…

Following the news that a phase one China trade deal had been forged, President Donald Trump tweeted that phase two negotiations would begin immediately, rather than after the 2020 election, as he had suggested in recent days. Trade and market experts cautio…

The US's top commander in the Indo-Pacific explains China's tactics and how the US is helping allies counter them

On paper, the German city of Duisburg, population 500,000, seems like a perfect stop on the roadmap of Chinas global ambitions. Situated at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, Duisburg had become the poster child for industrial decline, a heady fall…

CHENGDU, China, Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- West China Hospital of Sichuan University, a prestigious medical center located in Chengdu, Sichuan province, signed an agreement on Dec. 5 with the Chengdu Management Committee of Tianfu New Area, China's 11th na…

China has spent billions of dollars to project soft power in Asia but it has struggled to win the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens in parts of the region, a study said Tuesday. President Xi Jinping doubled China's foreign affairs budget in six years fro…

BEIJING, Dec. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, the annual "Double 11" shopping festival in China has come to an end. Apart from the usual fierce competition of local businesses, consumers' pursuit of high-quality imported food is increasing. Among them, it …