The Trump administration is hardly the first to give Africa short shrift in its national security considerations. The continent received a measly three paragraphs in the 2015 National Security Strategy, mostly concerning epidemic diseases and intrastate conflict, with bare mentions of economic and political engagement. But the stakes are higher now. China is spreading its economic… Read more »
No matter how many phones you sell, Yu Weiguo has learned, it's tough to keep to a schedule when the government declares martial law. During his eight years in Ethiopia, Yu has helped turn little-known Transsion Holdings, owner of the sleepy Chinese brand Tecno Mobile, into Africa's leading mobile device maker. Having sold at least 200 million phones on the continent, he picked the… Read more »
The U.S. military has warily watched the steady growth of China's military and its expansion into the South China Sea, where its anti-access/area denial strategy seeks to shoo America and other outsiders out of the country's watery backyard.
This week, the country's naval forces produced its latest coming out party of sorts, as scores of ships steamed with an aircraft carrier along a… Read more »
BEIJING (AP) — China's Commerce Ministry urged Washington on Thursday to discard planned tariffs it warned might set off a chain reaction that could disrupt global trade and said Beijing will “fight to the end.”
A ministry spokesman, Gao Feng, gave no details of how Beijing might respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed tariff hike on $60 billion of Chinese… Read more »
The newly opened luxury Cordis hotel looks much like many other high-end hotels in Shanghai, with its glass-sided swimming pool, vast twin ballrooms and upscale spa. But the first Cordis hotel on mainland China boasts something that is genuinely rare in big Chinese cities: clean indoor air.
Modest occupancy rates in the megacity's 5,000-plus hotels mean operators have been desperately… Read more »
Russia and China are outpacing the United States in the development of super-fast missile technology, Pentagon officials and key lawmakers are warning.
Russia says it successfully tested a so-called hypersonic missile this month, while China tested a similar system last year expected to enter service soon.
“Right now, we're helpless,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a… Read more »
China reached its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal last year, its government said.
Xie Zhenhua, China's special representative for climate change, gave the update Monday at the country's Green Carbon Summit, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
China had targeted a reduction of its carbon dioxide emissions as a unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40… Read more »
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is closely watching the Trump administration's trade negotiations with Beijing.
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive memo to slap China as much as $60 billion in tariffs on imports.
Locke, who served as the first Chinese-American governor of Washington, said the tariffs would be disastrous to the state's economy. He said… Read more »
Hong Kong (CNN)A surprise visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to China may indicate Pyongyang's need for support from its closest ally ahead of upcoming summits with South Korea and the US.
Observers say it would be highly unusual for Kim to meet US President Donald Trump without seeing Chinese President Xi Jinping first. Kim has never met a foreign leader since he took power in… Read more »
BEIJING — North Korea's enigmatic young leader, Kim Jong-un, made an unannounced visit to Beijing, meeting with President Xi Jinping weeks before planned summit meetings with American and South Korean leaders, Chinese and North Korean state news media reported on Wednesday.
The visit amounted to Mr. Kim's international debut: It was the 34-year-old leader's first trip outside… Read more »
