Tag Archives: China

A recent study by a Britishthink tank, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), states that China will surpass the US to become the world’s largest economy by 2028.  The report, not the only one of its kind making this forecast, had revised its projection forwards by five years, attributing …

China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee voted for the new provision on Saturday. The changes to the country’s criminal code are set to take effect on March 1 next year. Until now, China’s age of criminal liability for most offenses has stood at 16 years. However, children who have committed …

Speaking on Thursday in a regular media briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that Beijing would be pausing all flights between China and the UK. “After much consideration, China has decided to take reference from other countries and suspend flights to and from UK,” Wang told reporters.  China will …

The probe was announced on Thursday by the country’s top market watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation. In a brief statement on its website, the regulator said it was investigating Alibaba over its “choosing one from two” policy, which reportedly puts pressure on its sellers not to offer their …

On Tuesday, Japan and South Korea were alarmed by a joint Russia-China bomber patrol which came close to their airspace, described as “a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.” The jets flew down the Korean Eastern Sea (Sea of Japan) before heading south towards the East …

There is substance to these rumours, as Iger has political ambitions, and was even thinking about a run for president in the 2020 election. In February, he marked the beginning of the end of his 25-year run at Disney, stepping down as CEO and becoming executive chairman, thus creating room to …

The People’s Liberation Army “expelled US destroyer USS John S. McCain after it trespassed into China’s territorial waters off Nansha Islands in the South China Sea,” Colonel Tian Junli, spokesman for the PLA Southern Theatre Command, said in a statement on Tuesday. The PLA “opposes US actions which endanger China’s …

“Based on what I’ve seen, I don’t think there’s any question that it was Russia,” Schiff, who is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC on Sunday, commenting on the hack.  The hacking operation in question targeted the SolarWinds Orion Platform, a network monitoring tool used by US …

Following UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision on Saturday to prohibit households in London and parts of the Southeast and East of England from meeting family and friends over the holiday period, Farage attempted to pin the blame on the other side of the world. The government took the last-minute …

Cyber attacks, asymmetric conflicts and digital surveillance – the list of “threats” and “challenges” posed to the UK and its allies by an assertive Russia and China appears to be long, at least in the mind of the British top brass. General Sir Nick Carter defined Moscow as an “acute …