US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan Al Jazeera US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. | Blinken, who landed in Shanghai on Wednesday, is expected to meet business leaders i...
Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability Korea Times U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by at the Kong Fuan, Director General of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns and U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai Scott Walker, upon his arrival in Shanghai, China, April 24, 2024...
Europe Decides China Is a State-Owned Economy The Epoch Times Commentary For decades, the question on the minds of policymakers and analysts alike is what type of economy China is. Answering this question has important policy and legal implications, as well as how we understand the Chinese economy. Europe seems...
Yuan internationalization drive hits a local speed bump Asiatimes As Chinese leader Xi Jinping works to increase the yuan’s role in global trade and finance, he’s encountering an unexpected speed bump: mainland companies. | New data from the ...
Will Natural Diamonds Cease to be Sold in the Near future? Greek Reporter The price of natural diamonds has plummeted due to decreased demand and growth of lab-grown diamonds. Credit: Kim Alaniz. CC BY 2.0/flickr | The price of natural diamonds has fallen by 26 percent in the past couple of years, with decreasing US and Ch...
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Tesla cuts prices in China and Germany as competition heats up CNN Tesla has announced aggressive price cuts in China and Germany, shortly after reducing prices in the United States, as the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles (EV) faces declining sales and growing competition in major markets. On Sunday, the EV giant slashed the starting prices of four models sold in mainland China, its largest overseas m...
‘Absolute power’: After pro-China Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next? Al Jazeera Very few expected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s party to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections, that too by a landslide. For this was a man whose triumph in the presidential poll last year came by a fluke. | Back then, the 45-year-old mayor of the capital Male entered the presidential race only at the eleventh hour as a proxy candidate, a...
