Contrary to a meme that’s popular among Western policy analysts, there is no Chinese “export surge.” China’s exports to developed markets have stagnated for years, but have doubled to the Global South. Not only have China’s exports to the Global South in total risen by an
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the decision of the ICC prosecutor on Monday to seek arrest warrants against him and his defense minister was absurd and that the move was meant to target all of Israel.
KYIV - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine's Western allies were taking too long to make decisions on military support for his country.
China added three American defense contractors to its Unreliable Entity List on Monday, the day of Taiwan’s presidential inauguration, and accused them of having sold arms to the island. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced its decision to sanction three United States firms,
KYIV - Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday.
LONDON - The ICC prosecutor's decision to request an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unhelpful, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday.
Bangladesh’s economy faces a perfect storm with double-digit inflation pinching wallets, foreign exchange reserves dwindling and economic growth fading away. To weather the crisis, the government is desperately seeking foreign loans. Enter China into the eye of the tempest.
Economists already think China’s latest plan to end its property crisis is too little, too late – again. Yet the creative thinking behind it – essentially, a state-backed apartment-buying spree – is generating hope that Xi Jinping’s team could be on the verge of a breakthrough
The capital city currently has about 65 per cent accessibility to clean water, and the authorities have set an ambitious target of 100 per cent by 2030.
The plans for increased scrutiny come shortly after Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mr Razarudin Husain announced that the perpetrator, who killed two police officers and left one injured, had no links to terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).
Over the weekend, Queensland University of Technology PhD student Xiaolong Zhu became national news – and not for a good reason. Zhu is a Chinese citizen and his visa to study in Australia has been denied on the grounds of being “directly or indirectly associated with the
The deadly assault at a police station in Malaysia's Johor on May 17 could have prompted others dissatisfied with society to turn to violent crime against authorities, say analysts.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who has been reported dead after the helicopter he was in crashed on May 19, 2024, is a consummate loyalist whose passing will be a severe blow to the country’s conservative leadership. While search and rescue teams – hampered by rain, fog,
The big economic news this week was Biden’s very large tariffs on a number of Chinese-made goods. Those tariffs appear to have acted as a catalyst for a bunch of other countries — India, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, the EU, etc. — to consider their own tariffs on China.
India is pushing to indigenize its defense capabilities with plans for a third aircraft carrier, underscoring Delhi’s strategic concern of a two-front naval war against Pakistan and China in the Indian Ocean. Naval News reported India is considering ordering a third aircraft