Chiang Kai-shek – Charm

As China’s leaders chart the next 5-year plan, they hear echoes from long ago

Cs news2 days ago02 mins

As China’s leadership meets this week to chart a policy course for the 15th five-year plan – China’s development blueprint for the rest of the decade – events that unfolded more than 70 years ago are echoing again. The growing external challenges of today have similarities to those the country faced in the 1950s –…

Beijing reasserts Taiwan position, rebukes West for ‘gross violation’ of global order

Cs news3 weeks ago02 mins

Beijing marked the anniversary of foundation of the People’s Republic by reasserting its position on Taiwan and describing attempts by the United States and other Western nations to expand Taiwan’s presence in international organisations as “a gross violation” of the global order. In issuing a position paper reaffirming support for United Nations General Assembly Resolution…