China’s Social Credit System

On March 14, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) accelerator, a major national science and technology infrastructure under the “13th Five Year Plan”, has successfully accelerated the first electron beam with full energy. As a result, HEPS entered the parallel phase of scientific…

The aftermath of a car bombing in Aden in 2021. Photo: Wael Shaif Thabet/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. The testing ground for the Iran-Saudi normalization deal, announced on Friday and brokered by China, will be in Yemen. Why it matters: The truce that halted fighting in Yemen expired in October,…

Former President Donald Trump took credit for bringing China to the "attention of the world" on Monday afternoon. "I hope everyone remembers that I was the one that brought China to the attention of the world," Trump said in a video posted on his Truth Social account. "Under Trump, China…

China's new Premier Li Qiang warned of 'many new challenges' to economic growth. — AFPChina's new premier warned Monday that the country's five-percent growth target for 2023 would not be "easy" to achieve, as its rubber-stamp parliament wrapped up over a week of meetings. The government set the economic growth…

While the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China will no doubt continue to grow in 2023, domestic manufacturers are accelerating their exploration of the Thai market. On March 10, BYD and NETA announced the construction of their factories in Thailand. Both sides said that the factory aims to…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), the centrist Democrat who has been highly critical of Biden administration energy policy, released a statement on March 10 in which he called “beyond irresponsible” clean energy czar John Podesta’s remarks that day that Chinese companies will be “big players” in U.S. domestic production of EV batteries.…

The route will be built on the basis of concessions in which China will gain long-term access to the natural resources in the region. This new Chinese initiative will benefit Moscow and especially those Russian firms and officials who control the natural resources in Sakha. Even with Chinese resources behind…

China on Saturday named Li Qiang, a close confidant of top leader Xi Jinping, as the country’s next premier nominally in charge of the world’s second-largest economy now facing some of its worst prospects in years. Li was nominated by Xi and appointed to the position at Saturday morning’s session of the…

From: Inside StoryXi starts his 11th year in the job as tensions are rising with the United States and European Union. Xi Jinping has been formally appointed for a third term as China’s president. It may be a ceremonial position, but the man who holds it is by far the…

2:59 AM UTC The World Baseball Classic continues as the Czech Republic takes on China in a Pool B battle at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. China is coming off an opening-game loss against Japan, while the Czech Republic will be playing its first game of the tournament. China has…