The escalating wrangling between the West and Russia over the Ukraine crisis may continue to cast a shadow on the upcoming meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi, India, on the heels of the finance ministers' meeting in Bengaluru, where a joint communiqué failed to be issued....more

US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns blatantly criticized China when he addressed the 22nd Annual Appreciation Dinner American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham China), causing dissatisfaction among AmCham China staff and industry representatives there. Some executives from the US-China Business Council said it will reconsider whether to invite Burns...more

The release of China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis triggered immediate reactions from the US and its allies. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claimed that China doesn't have "much credibility" in the Russia-Ukraine war; US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the proposal should...more

The last five years of China-Australia business relations have not been easy. The reason has been the increasingly aggressive "anti-China" line from Canberra, although this line simply did not make sense to the Australian business community. As Peter Arkell, former chair of the Shanghai-based Australia-China Chamber of Commerce...more

In December 2022, Wang Yi, then member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, state councilor and minister of foreign affairs, speaking at a symposium on Chinese diplomacy, said that for both the world and China, the outgoing 2022 is critical in bridging...more

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is paying a state visit to China from Tuesday to Thursday. During the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last September, the two heads of state held a bilateral meeting and announced to upgrade China-Belarus...more

The recent news of giant pandas in the US has saddened many Chinese panda fans. Le Le, the 25-year-old male giant panda living in the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, the US, for 20 years, suddenly died on February 1. Meanwhile, Ya Ya, a 23-year-old female giant panda that...more

The good old days returned on Monday as the borders between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland reopened fully after three years, with daily quotas and COVID-19 tests dropped for travelers. People on both sides jumped on the first trains to the opposite side, some for work, some...more

On Monday, the first batch of Chinese outbound group tours after the pandemic departed from major cities across the nation, heading to destinations ranging from Thailand, Singapore to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - for many, it's a day that ended a three-year anxious waiting. And for the...more

After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, global businesses were glad to see Chinese visitors once again arriving at their local tourist attractions and shopping malls over the just concluded Spring Festival holidays and Lantern Festival. China has resumed agency-led outbound tour groups on Monday. In the early...more

Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Laos were the first destinations for many Chinese tourists as China officially started a pilot program of outbound group tours to 20 countries, mostly Southeast Asian nations, on Monday. For Chinese travelers, the resumption offers a chance to travel the world again,...more

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent messages of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad respectively over strong earthquakes in the two countries. More than 2,000 deaths and thousands more injuries were reported as of the press time following the earthquake. On...more

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg concluded his trip to Asia last week, which is widely seen as a trip helping Washington rope in Tokyo and Seoul by hyping up the so-called threats from China and Russia. Through the trip, NATO wants its close partners in the region to...more

The Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think tank, released the Asia Power Index for 2023 on Sunday. Created in 2018, the index measures powers based on 133 indicators across eight core themes. Since the index was launched in 2018, the US, China, Japan, India, and Russia, in that order,...more

The US and Japan have once again released a "sounding balloon" on the deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) to US forces in Japan. Japanese media recently quoted sources saying that Washington has proposed to deploy such missiles in Japan as part of a plan to strengthen "defense...more