20 articles tagged with #China
PoliticsPresident Trump warned of more military strikes against Iran while the Treasury Department unveiled new sanctions targeting weapons procurement networks, including entities in China and Hong Kong. A nuclear deal, Trump hinted, is tantalizingly close - but not quite there.
ConflictChina's military has spent a decade quietly expanding its fleet of 'special mission' aircraft, and analysts say the growth in both quantity and quality is a serious strategic development worth watching.
TechnologyChinese engineers have developed a 6G metasurface system that bounces wireless signals to eliminate dead zones while simultaneously sensing human movement like a radar - and it just won gold in Geneva.
EconomicsChina has begun construction on a $1 billion pumped-storage hydropower station in Cambodia's Koh Kong province, as disruptions to global fuel supplies from the Iran conflict push developing nations toward renewable energy alternatives.
EconomicsDutch trade minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, freshly removed from China's sanction list, is heading to Beijing in early July to lead a business delegation - with ASML export controls and the Nexperia ownership mess firmly on the agenda.
PoliticsSolomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has been ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote, triggering a leadership election in a nation considered one of China's closest partners in the Pacific.
EconomicsChina has spent years diversifying its energy suppliers and building overland pipelines, but analysis from The Diplomat reveals its oil supply still depends dangerously on the Strait of Hormuz - a chokepoint it cannot control.
PoliticsChinese Christian students arriving in the U.S. for academic and religious freedom are finding themselves suspected by both Beijing and Washington - caught between two governments, each afraid of them for completely different reasons.
PoliticsXi Jinping personally guided Donald Trump through Zhongnanhai, the heavily fortified Beijing compound where China's Communist Party leadership lives and works, as the US president's China visit drew to a close.
PoliticsChina wants open oil lanes and regional influence in the Middle East - without getting dragged into any actual conflicts. Professor Astrid Nordin of King's College London explains why that balancing act is harder than Beijing makes it look.
ConflictChina skipped the post-Trump-Xi military theater around Taiwan - but The Diplomat reports the PLAN has been quietly expanding its naval pressure across broader Indo-Pacific waters instead, which may be the more strategically significant move.
TechnologyChina has ranked third globally in AI competitiveness for life sciences, trailing only the US and UK, according to a new index from Deep Knowledge Group that tracks how nations are applying AI to drug discovery, healthcare, and longevity research.
PoliticsBolivia's once-cozy relationship with China has fallen apart since the heyday of the Morales and Arce governments, raising questions about Chinese investment across Latin America.
PoliticsG7 leaders signed a declaration to reduce reliance on a mysteriously unnamed "single supplier" for critical minerals. Analysts say a full decoupling from China is unlikely - Europe's rearmament dreams and its supply chain realities are very much still dating.
PoliticsXi Jinping's first foreign trip of 2025 took him to Pyongyang - but analysts say Kim Jong-un may have walked away with the bigger diplomatic victory, gaining international credibility at a critical moment.
PoliticsKMT politician Cheng Li-wun's visit to Beijing is being read as another chapter in China's long-running strategy of using Taiwan's opposition to influence the island's political direction, according to analysis by The Diplomat.
PoliticsIran is reportedly trying to use the Trump-Xi summit as a backdoor to advance its interests, leveraging its relationship with Beijing to wage influence on the global stage, according to analysis from The Hill.
EconomicsChina's rare earth dominance gets hyped as a geopolitical superweapon, but analysis from The Diplomat suggests that threatening to use it mostly accelerates the world's efforts to not need it anymore.
EconomicsEuropean chemical producers are urging the EU Commission to investigate Chinese firm LB Group over its planned acquisition of a UK plant, fearing it could be used to bypass anti-dumping duties on exports into the EU.
PoliticsTaiwan's foreign ministry issued a pointed reminder about U.S. arms sale commitments after Trump expressed hesitation following two days of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
