After more than a decade, President Xi Jinping returned to Lhasa, leading a delegation to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the administrative and religious capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Read More Here
China has unquestionably studied the Japanese ordeal to find out which policies work and which don’t. Unfortunately, Japan’s economy has been stationary for about three decades, so there is not much help coming from that side. Read More Here
The Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategic objective is to displace the United States as the world’s most powerful country and create a new world order favourable to China’s authoritarian brand of politics, or its “socialist market economy.” Read More Here
China’s multilevel construction drive within Bhutan has gone almost completely unnoticed by the outside world. Bhutan must know, and other governments in the region are likely to be aware that China is active on Bhutan’s northern borders but may not have realized the full extent of that activity or have chosen to remain silent. Read […]
Today, Xi is leader of a country that is likely to become the world’s biggest economy in a matter of years, which has just sent three astronauts into space to spend three months in a Chinese space station, and which has strengthened its military to the point where the United States has to think twice whether to take it on. Read […]
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivered an important speech at a grand gathering celebrating the centenary of the CPC’s founding at Tian’anmen Square in Beijing on Thursday. Here are some highlights from Xi’s speech:
Travel times from Lhasa to the border city of Nyingchi, on the front line of the China-India military standoff and buildup, will be slashed from nine hours by road to about three hours. The rail artery runs in parallel with the Yaluzangbu River, the Chinese name of the Brahmaputra River in India that rises in […]
For the West, China is a disputable issue, even more so its phenomenal economic growth in recent decades. There are many question marks, in the West, over the emergence of China as the new economic, political, and recently also technological power. What is the secret behind China’s unprecedented success story? Read More Here
The United States and China are embroiled in a contest that might prove more enduring, more wide-ranging, and more intense than any other international competition in modern history, including the Cold War. Read More Here
On July 1, China’s Communist Party will celebrate its 100th birthday. It has always called itself “great, glorious and correct”. And as it starts its second century, the party has good cause to brag. Read More Here
