Search volumes for group tours and self-guided travel skyrocketed by 500 percent after China announced Tuesday to resume group tours across the country, while overseas tours remain suspended, data from travel agency Trip.com showed. China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a circular on Tuesday resuming group tours...More

The UK's move to ban Huawei may further sour strained China-UK political ties, largely reduce personnel exchanges, and most likely prompt Beijing to take reciprocal measures against London's discriminatory policy, Chinese observers said. The UK's mobile providers are being banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after December...More

Top Chinese legislators and veteran observers of Hong Kong affairs said they are not surprised to see the US president sign the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which is considered "a piece of scrap paper" by the Chinese government. Observers said that Washington is shooting itself in the foot...More

The US has created quite a farce on world stage regarding arms control lately. During its nuclear arms control talks with Russia in Vienna in June, the US delegation put out non-standard Chinese flags on the negotiating tables. Fu Cong, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of...More

The sudden deterioration of US-China relations to the level of confrontation is perhaps the most important geopolitical development that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that a point of no return has been reached. What started as a trade war and a conflict over intellectual property rights...More

Disputes in the South China Sea seem to have escalated recently. The US has frequently come to the region trying to demonstrate its military strength. On Sunday, Foreign Secretary of the Philippines Teodoro Locsin stated the country's tough claim regarding the South China Sea. US Secretary of State...More

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Editor's Note: Amid mounting tensions between China and Australia, Allan Behm (Behm), head of the International and Security Affairs program at The Australia Institute, Canberra, recently published a paper suggesting the tensions between the two countries were largely caused by Australia's lack of understanding of China. Compared with ever...More

Mark Beeson, a professor of international politics at the University of Western Australia, in late June published an article titled "China's charmless offensive" on The Interpreter, an online journal of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute. In this piece, the author tried to seek evidence from the writing of an...More

Some people in both China and the US are worried that the trade war the US launched against China since 2018 will soon impact other areas - investment, education, science and technology, judicial matters, the Hong Kong and Xinjiang questions and more. They are concerned that it will...More

B R Deepak, a Sinologist and chairperson at the Institute of Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, said in an interview with me that "China's focus is not about consolidating its ties with India. It instead is concentrating on smaller countries in the vicinity. This is reflected in...More

Editor's Note: It has been two weeks since the clash between Indian and Chinese troops at the border. Despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's acknowledgment that no troops intruded into the Indian side of the border, there has been sweeping nationalism in India that has led to the boycott...More

The central government’s office for safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was inaugurated on Wednesday morning. The office is located at Metropark Hotel Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, according to news site hk.on.cc. During the inauguration ceremony, the central government’s liaison office director...More

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will imminently enact a National Security Law (NSL) for Hong Kong. For many in the Special Administrative Region, especially patriots, this will be the most hopeful day in the life of Hong Kong since its return to...More

Analysts said that the Indian government's ban on 59 apps developed by Chinese companies will hurt India's technology and internet start-ups as they lose Chinese investment. On Monday, India announced it would ban the apps over national security concerns. "The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling...More