[Analytics] Khan calls for talks, India urges action on terrorism
Pakistan PM Imran Khan offered talks with India amid a dramatic escalation between the two…
China
The People’s Republic of China is an economy of 1.3 billion people. When it joined APEC in 1991, it had a real GDP of USD 906 billion and a per capita GDP of USD 788. Today it is the second-largest economy in the world. By 2016, its real GDP has risen to USD 9.5 trillion, while its per capita GDP increased nine-fold to USD 6,800.
[Analytics] Concern over plan to build ‘Russian internet’
Moscow says it needs to prepare for a possible cyberwar, but critics say it wants…
[Analytics] China selects top 10 scientific discoveries of 2018
BEIJING, Feb 28, 2019, ECNS. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology Wednesday selected the country’s…
China Development Bank lends trillions of yuan to develop Yangtze River Economic Belt
BEIJING, Feb 27, 2019, Xinhua. China Development Bank (CDB), the world’s largest development finance institution,…
Air skirmish as Pakistani jets drop bombs in Kashmir, Islamabad claims to shoot down two Indian fighters
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI, Feb 27, 2019, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg. Pakistan shot down two Indian Air Force…
‘China is biggest foreign threat to America’: former US ambassador to the UN
WASHINGTON D.C., Feb 27, 2019, SCMP. Former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki…
Why Malaysia’s Transport minister’s wife in an official meeting in China, asks MCA
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27, 2019, Free Malaysia Today. Transport Minister Anthony Loke has been accused…
Russia, China, India concerned about increased trade protectionism
WUZHEN, Feb 27, 2019, TASS. The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China are concerned…
[Analytics] Rice industry needs long term strategy
Amid the context of poor consumption, paddy price in Mekong Delta provinces is unlikely to…
China’s HK, mainland discuss risk management on projects under Belt and Road development
HONG KONG, Feb 26, 2019, Xinhua. A sharing session was held in Hong Kong Monday…
[Analytics] Gene-edited Chinese babies may have enhanced brains
He Jiankui could have altered cognitive functions of twin girls when he used CRISPR to…
Asian stocks mostly higher after Trump tariff extension
BEIJING, Feb 25, 2019, AFP. Most Asian stock markets rose Monday after President Donald Trump…