The Red Sea crisis tests China’s global ambitions
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Six more years of Putin will worry many countries. But not China
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Xi Jinping: China’s president of precedents and new norms, but at what cost?
SINGAPORE: A signature event will be conspicuously missing when China’s most important annual political meetings come to a close on Monday (Mar 11) — Premier Li Qiang will not be speaking to the press.
Vietnam urges respect of international law as China draws Gulf of Tonkin baseline
HANOI — Vietnam's foreign ministry on Thursday (March 14) said international law and the rights and interests of other countries must be respected, responding to a question about China's demarcation earlier this month of a baseline in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Cause to cheer, cause to jeer China stock bounce
With a few benchmarks for Chinese stocks up 20% from January lows, a debate is raging between the bulls and bears.
China must rethink emphasis on 'national security'
China's unique thinking about comprehensive national security was on full display throughout the recently concluded National People's Congress (NPC). The current government, headed by President Xi Jinping, overemphasizes concepts that are vague in scope, which inhibits normal economic and other interactions with the outside world. Beijing should urgently rethink its excessive emphasis on security, which is hurting its own economy.
Tighter control and high-tech push: Key takeaways from China’s biggest annual political event
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Chinese legislature’s meetings return, but the limited openness they once had is gone
BEIJING (AP) — This year, China’s national legislature resumed its annual in-person meetings without many of the restrictions that had been imposed since the pandemic. No more bubbles, multiple COVID-19 tests or social distancing.