China steps up Belt and Road Initiative funding with focus on Central Asia

The region received an ‘unusually high concentration’ of investment, particularly in metals and mining, new research has found.

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China to speed up bullet-train connectivity with neighbors

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Science

Why U.S. is joining China in race to ‘game-changing’ rotating detonation engine

Chinese scientists have been leading the way in developing the technology that could transform hypersonic military capabilities.

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Science

‘Will you leave U.S. for China?’ It depends, mathematician Terence Tao says

Trump funding cuts have left situation more ‘fluid and unstable’ than at any time in the last 30 years, Tao says.

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Politics

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Hong Kong official, lawmaker pull out of Bitcoin Asia 2025 featuring Eric Trump

 

Analyst says ‘request’ was made not to interact with U.S. president’s son to avoid impression of ‘cooperating with or flattering’ Donald Trump.

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80 years on from WWII, has China become a main guarantor of the post-war order?

 

Experts say the country’s wartime sacrifice makes it a steward, not a disrupter, of the international system.

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Exclusive | China invites descendants of US Flying Tigers to mark end of World War II

 

Diplomacy

China rejects Trump proposal to join US-Russia nuclear disarmament talks

 

Beijing says the idea, reportedly discussed during Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, is ‘neither reasonable nor realistic’.

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Military

The Front Line | As the world watches PLA approach 100, is it truly ‘capable of winning wars’?

On September 3, China’s steps towards ‘building a world-class military by the middle of the century’ will be more visible.

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Science

China achieves invisibility tech breakthrough for early warning aircraft

Air force creates method to render radio signals incomprehensible for enemies attempting to intercept and track aircraft geo-location.

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Military

The Red Arsenal: inside China’s cutting-edge weapon systems

From stealth jets to aircraft carriers, the People’s Liberation Army’s tools which could play a key role in the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and other geopolitical hot spots.

26 Aug 2025 - 9:42AM

Military

The Front Line | China’s military has made a dramatic about-turn. The world is watching

The PLA’s ‘remarkable improvements’ in the past decade are closing the gap with the US, but geopolitics could hold back Chinese arms sales.

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Science

China’s Tiangong beats ISS in heated space research race

Global Economy

Why Trump’s furniture tariffs could complicate efforts to reassemble China trade

‘Furniture is not like electronics,’ one analyst warns. ‘You cannot ship in bits and parts and screw it together in North America’.

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