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A Chinese government airplane entered Japanese airspace over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday in the first such airspace intrusion in Japan, prompting an immediate protest from the Japanese government.
According to the 2011 Private Wealth Report, 27% of Chinese entrepreneurs worth more than 100 million RMB ($15.9 million) have already emigrated, while another 47% say they are considering doing so.
During the nuclear honed days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a nuclear missile able to strike anywhere in the U.S.
Investors knew something was amiss when on November 26th, the wealth management product (WMP) they had bought from Huaxia Bank that promised 11% returns, simply didn't pay out.
As the number of self-immolations in restive Tibetan regions rises sharply, Beijing appears to be tightening rules against the anti-China protests despite hopes the new leadership may take a softer line against Tibet.
THE Philippines would support Japan dropping its pacifist constitution to become a fully fledged military force and act as a balance against China, a government spokesman said yesterday.
China will be the world’s largest economy by 2030 but the US will still remain “first among equals” in the international system, according to a new US government intelligence assessment of global trends.
China's bloated solar sector has been hard hit this year by plummeting prices brought on by overcapacity.
Chinese manufacturers have dominated the international market for conventional solar panels by building bigger factories faster. Now they will need to innovate to maintain their lead.
At China's biennial air show in Zhuhai this month, an imposing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles was on display -- drones bearing a striking resemblance to the American aircraft that have proved so deadly in attacks on insurgents in Pakistan.
Chinese and American soldiers finished a week-long disaster rescue exercise on Friday, furthering military ties between the two countries even as military tensions rise between China and U.S. military allies in the Pacific region.
China's plan to board and search ships that illegally enter what it considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea could spark naval clashes and hurt the region's economy, Southeast Asia's top diplomat warned on Friday.
As China's growing economy shift to being consumer-driven from being export-driven, companies exposed to discretionary spending have boomed.
Watch out, Vladimir Putin: China’s drone fleet is getting real. And judging from how Beijing is promoting its robots to the outside world, they’re aimed straight at Russia.
It appears that People's Daily, the big Chinese Communist party newspaper, has fallen for an Onion gag, naming Kim Jong Un the Sexiest Man Alive in 2012 (via Adam Minter) The website has just published a huge 55 page slideshow on the news.
China's new round of structural tax cutting is likely to benefit more than 900,000 enterprises nationwide, according to a working conference held here on Monday to discuss the country's piloting of replacing business tax with a value-added tax (VAT).
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Henry Rosemont Jr. (Professor, Author) on the U.S./China Relations: Neither Collision nor Collusion - Danny Muller (MECAforPeace.Org) in Gaza this past summer and returning in coming weeks, provides insight into the Israeli air attacks
After years of preparation, the Chinese military performed its first aircraft carrier takeoffs and landings last week on the Liaoning.
In just a few months, the "why-I'm-leaving-China" article has become an embarrassing cliche amongst expats in China.
Party conservatives certainly want no change, yet something clearly needs to be done, he said, as the economy clearly is stumbling, with the economic growth actually closer to zero percent or 1 percent than to the Party’s proclaimed 7 percent, if oth
Amid the recent political shift within Chinese politics, the effort at modernizing and advancing its military has remained unchanged.
Zhai Xiaobing's tweet on 5 November suggested that the next "movie" in the "Final Destination" horror franchise would be about the Great Hall of the People collapsing on party delegates.
Four Chinese oil company employees held hostage since June 2011, allegedly by Colombia’s FARC rebels, have been freed in southern Colombia, their embassy said Thursday.
The signs of America’s decline and China’s rise seem to be everywhere: The U.S. middle class is stagnating while China’s continues its meteoric ascent. Our manufacturing sector has been eclipsed by Chinese factories churning out iPhones. The schools
Along with abolishing China's one-child policy, privatizing rural land is said to be another top reform for China's new leaders.
If China’s new leadership wants an innovation-based economy, it will have to begin to make the changes needed for robust science and technology development.
While China's leadership transition captured the world's attention, it was away from that spotlight that the Chinese state revealed a crucial bit of information that says a lot about what motivates its foreign policy.
to draw up their most ambitious economic reform proposals in decades that could curb the power of state firms and give more freedom to the setting of interest rates and the
After a decade in power, President Hu Jintao has been using his final weeks on the job to shore up his reputation, maneuver allies into key positions and elevate his interpretation of communist ideology — all in an attempt to preserve his influence o
While Western central banks have frittered away their gold, China is quietly building up its reserves.
