In a span of just a few weeks, China’s ships have carried out “law enforcement” activities farther from its mainland than ever before, mapped a highly sensitive seabed and conducted “research” inside a highly contested lagoon more than 500 miles from its shores. China has long been accused of “salami-slicing” to advance its territorial claims…
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then China’s embrace of stealth aircraft technology is a compliment to American ingenuity. Both awed by — and apprehensive about — U.S. stealth capabilities, China has invested heavily in developing stealth aircraft, as well as anti-stealth air defenses. But China has learned the wrong lessons from America’s…
BEIJING, June 24 (Reuters) – China has a right to target people outside of its borders who contravene its new law on ethnic unity, a senior official said on Wednesday, adding that this was in line with international practice, and was legal and necessary. China passed the law in March to create a “shared” national…
“Hong Kong is the only city in the world with five universities ranked among the global top 100.” This talking point has become one of the Hong Kong government’s favourite slogans. It has appeared in government press releases and official speeches, including Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s policy address last year. Though pleasing to the…
Hong Kong has ranked as the second-most globally competitive economy – its best performance in seven years – climbing one spot from last year to place behind Singapore. The ranking, released by the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on Thursday, put the city ahead of 68 other economies out of 70 surveyed. Hong…
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, June 18 (Reuters) – Taiwan safeguarding its own security and refusing rule by China’s Communist Party should not be seen as a provocation, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, adding he hoped a new U.S. arms sale package can be approved soon. Democratically governed Taiwan is viewed by…
Hong Kong developer Lai Sun Development, chaired by businessman Peter Lam Kin-ngok, who also chairs the city’s Tourism Board, has launched an exchange offer for its outstanding US$493 million worth of 5 per cent guaranteed notes due July 2026, in an effort to relieve short-term liquidity pressures, the company said Monday in a filing to…
FILE – Fish swim near coral on the ocean bed near Shimoni, Kenya, June 13, 2022. (Brian Inganga | AP) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Attempts by China to exert pressure or influence on other countries to limit Taiwan’s access to international events has become “the new normal,” the island’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Lin Chia-Lung was…
The first African nation to host the global oceans conference defends the deportations, saying it ‘recognises only one China’. Published On 17 Jun 202617 Jun 2026 Taiwan has accused Kenya of deporting people from the island who planned to attend a global oceans conference in Mombasa and blamed Beijing for exerting pressure on the East…
BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday that it will take countermeasures in response to a new Taiwan government website for Chinese nationals to report intelligence tips, saying the site exposed Taipei’s “confrontational mindset”. Taiwan and China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory, have long spied on each other,…