How Xi is ensuring that China’s economy remains strong
AFP | President Xi Jinping stamped his authority over China's economy at a major meeting ending Wednesday, which called for "reasonable" credit expansion, increased imports...
Bitcoin | Soft and Vulnerable Underbelly
Let's count the ways Yes, it’s obvious, or should be, that simply investing in Bitcoin or its hundreds of crypto colleagues can be a wild...
Chinese firm turns panda poop into toilet paper
AFP | When life gave one Chinese company giant panda poop, it decided to make paper -- and profits. The Qianwei Fengsheng Paper Company in southwest...
China uses Belt and Road investment to shape Pakistan’s political climate
James M Dorsey | A Chinese decision to redevelop criteria for the funding of infrastructure projects that are part of the $50 billion plus China Pakistan Economic...
What is China’s main motive behind Belt and Road Initiative?
M K Bhadrakumar | Over the past 24 hours, the narrative by India’s self-styled “China watchers” regarding the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been...
China to deploy inter-continental ballistic missile by early 2018
M K Bhadrakumar | People’s Daily reported today citing a CCTV program on Sunday that China’s latest inter-continental ballistic missile DF-41 will be deployed in “early...
Can China learn from Pakistan’s counterinsurgency operations?
Syed Ali Hadi | Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an international organization (IO) which is the initiative of China's foreign policy in the 21st century. SCO came...
Pakistan withdraws from Chinese dam building deal. What does this mean for the future of CPEC?
James M. Dorsey | In a rare challenging of Chinese commercial terms that underlie the country’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative, Pakistan and Nepal have...
China introduces first ever virtual reality theme park
Reuters | Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's...
China’s Rohingya ‘doosra’ baffles India
M K Bhadrakumar | There is delightful irony that China has put forward a plan to resolve Rohingya refugees, which is so deceptively simple and...
China-Nepal relations doing fine despite Indian rumours stating otherwise
M K Bhadrakumar | In an unexpected development last week, the Nepalese government decided to cancel plans to build the US$2.5 billion 1,200-MW Budhi Gandaki...
Chinese company Tencent now more valuable than Facebook
AFP | Chinese social media and video game giant Tencent became more valuable than Facebook on Tuesday as investors sent the company soaring into the...