What do the fluctuations in China’s capital market mean for the global economy? As can be seen in the recent stock market slide, capital markets outside of China were impacted, but quickly rebounded. Make no mistake, whatever happens in China… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation from a report in Chinese media: A CCTV reports in its primetime news said that China has launched two satellites for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) with one of its new-type Changzheng-3B/Expedition-1… Read More ›
While everyone’s anxiously watching and analysing the events unravelling in the South China Sea, there’s another resource conflict involving China that also deserves attention. In the Himalayas, China and India are competing for valuable hydropower and water resources on the… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report on a Chinese news site: A report in huanqiu.com quoted a report in the Pakistani Tribune News Network that China and Pakistan concluded a contract this week with China to… Read More ›
Propaganda. Taiwanese students protest “rewriting” history curriculum. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education responded on cue: police to arrest protesters—as well as three reporters. Notwithstanding Mark Twain’s “Never argue with people who buy ink by the barrel”, taking action against the students… Read More ›
China is a country with more than a billion people, but as Ross Terrill observed, when we ask what China wants, we are really attempting to discern the goals of the seven “male engineers” who make up the Standing Committee… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of an article in Chinese media: China’s official mouthpiece the Global Times published an article by Lin Zuoming, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China’s State-owned giant Aviation Industry Corporation of China… Read More ›
The tumult in China’s stock markets has turned into a blessing for Indian shareholders. International investors are pulling out of China, fuelling record outflows through the Shanghai-Hong Kong exchange link, amid a $2.8 trillion plunge in mainland equity values since… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: News.sina.com.cn published photos of China’s new HQ-16 air defence missiles deployed in Beijing and Shenyang Military Regions, between Beijing and the North Korean border. It was reported… Read More ›
Coordination among India, Japan and the U.S. on security cooperation and economic ties are essential because they can fundamentally talk about how they can “shape China’s rise in a peaceful way”, said Nicholas Szechenyi, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow –… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation from a report in Chinese media: Chinese website war.163.com in its recent article claims France, Israel and Ukraine made great contributions to China’s weapon modernisation, in defiance of an international weapons embargo. The… Read More ›
An epic battle brewing in the South China Sea just went up a notch. China is creating manmade islands on reefs in the region, which has ticked off neighbouring countries The Philippines now plans to station fighter jets and frigates… Read More ›
“Pacific fever”—the state of forgetting which country one is in. China is headed for an all out tailspin, economically and politically. Beijing was smart with money, courting foreign investment, and even smart with religion—allowing Christianity on the condition it did… Read More ›
The ANZUS study released this week by SDSC in conjunction with CSIS (PDF) says a lot of interesting things about the U.S. alliance, but it seems to evade the hard issue at the heart of the strategic choices confronting both… Read More ›
Chinese government’s primetime TV news CCTV yesterday gave first place to its report on China’s three new large aircraft. It said that China’s efforts in developing large aircraft have reached the harvesting stage. General assembly of China’s AG600, the world’s… Read More ›
China is going to have a recession. Not necessarily this year or next year, but it will. That’s just how economies work. How the Chinese government deals with its first capitalist recession is the great, dangerous unknown in world politics… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: Mil.news.sina.com.cn reports that China’s new prototype of the Y-20 large military transport aircraft has succeeded in its recent test flight. It is the fourth Y-20 prototype known… Read More ›
China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to ditch its attempt to solve South China Sea territorial disputes with an international tribunal and instead negotiate with Beijing directly, following the arbitration panel’s latest request for input from China. The Philippines has… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation from report in Chinese media: China’s mil.huanqiu.com carries cnr.cn’s report on China’s Caihong drones, after cnr.cn broadcast an interview with Shi Wen, chief engineer of the Caihong series of drones. In the interview… Read More ›
With China’s economy failing, the Chinese KMT-Nationalist party living in exile at Taiwan may have made a mistake in trying to merge the fates of the New Taiwan Dollar with the Chinese Yuan. Election time in Taiwan could mean a… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: Mil.huanqiu.com reports that China has sent its Yilong drone to the Paris Air Show to display China’s achievements in developing and marketing drones. Li Yidong, chief engineer… Read More ›
The simple selfie stick is turning into a wand of prophetic political propensities due to untiring efforts of its major user…the present Prime Minister of India. In his latest social message to his country people, Narendra Modi, urged parents to… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media. As the report is in Chinese media, it can be regarded as an official statement from the ruling Communist Party: Global Times had a report on US-China… Read More ›
India will be the world’s fastest growing economy for the second consecutive year in 2016 at 7.5 per cent, IMF today said, even as it lowered its current year global economy growth forecast to 3.3 per cent. In its World… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation from Chinese media: Chinese official media Global Times has expressed anger over the US updated National Military Strategy, which slammed Chinese claims in the South China Sea as aggressive and inconsistent with international… Read More ›
China needs to develop a long-range strategic bomber to strike adversaries farther away from its coast in the event of conflict, state media reported Tuesday, quoting defence experts. Beijing has been steadily beefing up its military through years of double-digit… Read More ›
China moves more and more with money. The economy is crashing, largely due to the Communist doctrine that citizens do not own land—something we rarely read about. China also gears up for both war and investment contingency. BRICS was ratified… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: Chinese media thepaper.cn reported that Thai Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said that the Thai navy had approved its plan to purchase three Chinese submarines valued at $1.1… Read More ›
One of the defining features of communism in the Chinese experience has been the fierce determination of party leaders to maintain a monopoly on power and obliterate any competition. China’s bosses have largely abandoned communism as an economic principle and… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: Huanqiu.com says in its report that DigitalGlobe satellite imagery showed a midget submarine being built at a pontoon in Wuchang Shipyard, a shipyard which specialised in producing… Read More ›
The people of Hong Kong may now have to wait years to vote after the city rejected Beijing’s offer of a castrated form of universal suffrage. By contrast, the people of Taiwan, electoral eunuchs no more after a two-decade democratic… Read More ›
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media. The opinons stated are those of the Chinese government, and not necessarily those of China Daily Mail: Oriental Outlook, a weekly feature in the Chinese government’s mouthpiece… Read More ›
Australia’s top public servant has dismissed any prospect of China leading the world, saying the economic giant is neither willing nor able to solve global problems. Michael Thawley, secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, said China had shown… Read More ›
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