China’s recent economic data presents a mixed, yet promising, picture of its ongoing and evolving economic recovery. While industrial expansion showed signs of slowing in May, retail spending surged past forecasts, suggesting a potential easing of the deep imbalances that have
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he and Chinese Premier Li Qiang discussed improving military-to-military communications to avoid future incidents involving their armed forces in their wide-ranging meeting on Monday. This follows an encounter last year in which
The Economist has a good story on the rise of Chinese science. In terms of “high-impact” (i.e. highly cited) publications, China has soared past the US and Europe: Now, these numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt. Measuring the impact of papers by looking at how many
The 40-year-old footballer received a warm welcome in Shanghai.
KINMEN, Taiwan – The Shun Da was kilometers off course. Authorized by China’s Maritime Safety Administration to dredge the seafloor for a new bridge near Xiamen, the Chinese-flagged vessel was instead buzzing the Taiwanese coast guard on Taiwan’s Dadan Island, about 16
The Australian reporter - jailed in China for three years - was attending a bilateral event in Canberra.
During his visit to the Adelaide Zoo on Sunday, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced that two “equally beautiful, lively, cute, and younger” pandas would be given to Australia to replace Wang Wang and Fu Ni, who will return to China later this year after calling Adelaide home for
Russia's president is due to meet Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, his first visit to North Korea since 2000.
The US seeks to revolutionize drone warfare through the rapid, iterative development and procurement of adaptable, cost-effective Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones, now seen as essential for maintaining air superiority against near-peer adversaries. This month, The
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party lost 63 seats, its vote share this election dropped only slightly – by less than 1 per cent.
About 400 tonnes of oil has washed onto the city-state's southern shores after a shipping crash.
(Big time) I’m on my way, I’m making it (Big time) (Big time) I’ve got to make it show, yeah (Big time) (Big time) So much larger than life (Big time) I’m gonna watch it growing (Big time) – Peter Gabriel In May, the World Bank concluded one of its periodic International
Observers say Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is unlikely to cave in to demands to remove an entity partner with ties to Israel from the deal. But larger questions loom on the economics and whether the move will give Kuala Lumpur International Airport a lift in international
