China locks down city on Myanmar border over coronavirus
YANGON, Sep 15, 2020, AFP. The three cases were found in the city of Ruili…
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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] Domestic concerns still shape India’s foreign policy
It is a truism that foreign policy begins at home. But how does this work…
China Pakistan Economic Corridor moving forward to industrialisation growth: Pakistani PM
ISLAMABAD, Sep 15, 2020, The Nation. Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said it was…
45 developing countries in Asia-Pacific to shrink for first time in nearly six decades: Asian Development Bank
MANILA, Sep 15, 2020, Reuters. The coronavirus pandemic will cause economic output in “developing Asia”…
China’s novel flying robot able to take scientific research to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
BEIJING, Sep 15, 2020, Global Times. A novel flying robot independently developed by Chinese researchers…
Tencent to open Southeast Asia regional hub in Singapore
HONG KONG, Sep 15, 2020, Reuters. Chinese gaming and social media group Tencent said on…
TikTok confirms submitting proposal to US authority
LOS ANGELES, Sep 15, 2020, Xinhua. Video-sharing social networking company TikTok said on Monday that…
China’s second sea-based space launch places 9 satellites in orbit
BEIJING, Sep 15, 2020, China Daily. China launched a Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket…
[Analytics] Russian Orange that’s still green: What the country’s creative industries awaits
It’s called the ‘cultural and creative industries’ (CCI) in the UK, or the ‘orange economy’…
[Analytics] China expands its island-building strategy into the mid-Pacific
The world knows the Republic of Kiribati as a very low-lying nation in the mid-Pacific…
TikTok will partner with Oracle in the US after Microsoft loses bid
WASHINGTON, D.C./NEW YORK, Sep 14, 2020, CNN Business. TikTok and Oracle will become business partners…
China ditches US nuclear technology in favour of home-grown alternative
HONG KONG, Sep 14, 2020, SCMP. China has switched from American nuclear power technology to…