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Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa for the G20 summit this weekend, a meeting that’s tellingly being boycotted by the world’s largest economy. It’s the latest in a series of moves by U.S. President Donald Trump indicating the world order is rapidly shifting. But as Canada starts to diversify its ties with…
Keir Starmer has announced a critical minerals and rare earths strategy to build resilience against China, which has a stranglehold on supplies of materials including magnets critical to everything from car doors to fridges. “For too long, Britain has been dependent on a handful of overseas suppliers, leaving our economy and national security exposed to…
India earlier this month inaugurated a high-altitude airbase near its disputed border with China, prompting analysts to suggest that the development capped long-term efforts to upgrade infrastructure there rather than posing a threat to Beijing. According to reports from multiple media outlets, the Mudh-Nyoma Air Force Station is perched at a height of about 13,700…
As the U.S. and China settle into an uneasy one-year truce, the takeaway for investors is that each country will double-down on homegrown technology, analysts said. “Own quality exporters and R & D-rich tech stocks aligned with localization, and use scenario odds — not headlines — to assess risk,” Morgan Stanley strategists recommended in a…
A China-developed 2-tonne electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has completed a low-altitude cross-city cargo test flight in Guizhou Province. Operated by Guiyang Low-Altitude Industry Development Company, the aircraft flew 118 kilometers in 40 minutes, carrying emergency medicines and local agricultural products. The test supports efforts to develop regular cargo air routes and expand…
Addressing the gathering of leaders in Johannesburg on Saturday, Li pointed to challenges faced by various international institutions. “We have to advance with time and take the lead to uphold multilateralism” in the face of difficulties of governance, he said, according to state news agency Xinhua. Without referring directly to the United States, Li said…
The Chinese did rather well in the age of globalization. In 1990, 943 million people there lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More…
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was “shocking” for Japan’s leader to openly send a wrong signal concerning Taiwan, according to an official statement on Sunday, the latest remarks in a row that has shaken relations for more than two weeks. Wang, the most senior Chinese official to have commented publicly on the issue,…
Planet China: Tenth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. HARARE, Zimbabwe—The strange number lighting up Tawanda Majoni’s phone again and again felt like a warning. Majoni, one of the Zimbabwe’s most respected journalists, soon learned where the calls were coming from: a federal police unit…
Item 1 of 2 Cars are stuck in traffic on an elevated highway as buildings are reflected on a glass surface in Beijing’s central business district (CBD), China, November 12, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov [1/2]Cars are stuck in traffic on an elevated highway as buildings are reflected on a glass surface in Beijing’s central business district…