Robust demand for China’s government bonds is helping Beijing to raise funds inexpensively to support growth in its fragile economy. Yet a relentless plunge in yields is creating entrenched expectations the People’s Republic is becoming a low-interest-rate country and is undermining President Xi Jinping’s desire for a strong yuan.
Beijing is taking a slow but safe approach to promoting harmony in a region of Africa beset by war and insurgencies, experts say In February 2022, amid Ethiopia's deadly Tigray War, Beijing appointed veteran diplomat Xue Bing as China's special envoy to the Horn of Africa,
China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its use of the animals for soft power abroad against the demands of an adoring public.
India, China agree to resume flights
By engaging China smartly, Trump can ensure that, for once, Washington—and not Beijing—sets the terms of the bilateral relationship.
China is suffering from deflation, devaluation, capital flight and the loss of foreign investment — all at the same time. Unprecedented, far worse than "Japanification."
With more women performing stand-up and audiences embracing female-oriented films, China’s feminist movement is breaking into the mainstream through comedy.
China is organising the world’s first foot race between humanoids and humans in April, an event that could boost Beijing ’s artificial intelligence goals. The half-marathon, covering a distance of about 21km, is being held in the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area – or E-Town – in the capital’s Daxing industrial district.
China's manufacturing activity unexpectedly contracted in January, an official factory survey showed on Monday, its weakest since August, keeping alive calls for stimulus in the world's second-largest economy.
China’s Lunar New Year travel rush has kicked into high gear, with billions of trips expected in coming days for the peak of the 40-day annual mass migration
Criticism over how the Chinese government buys drugs for its public health care system has ignited frustration over the quality of medicine.
The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.