Beijing’s top office overseeing Hong Kong affairs said on New Year’s Day that the city’s administration had lived up to expectations, stressing its effective response to the deadly Tai Po fire demonstrated unity and resilience. Acknowledging President Xi Jinping’s New Year wishes for the city, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also pledged in a social…
As China carried out live-fire drills and rehearsed a military blockade in the waters surrounding Taiwan this week, 70-year-old Liao said she wasn’t worried about war. She was enjoying life as a retiree, playing mahjong with her friends and keeping an eye on the stock market. “Everyday life hasn’t been impacted,” Liao told Al Jazeera…
BEIJING (AP) — China’s People’s Liberation Army said Wednesday that it “successfully completed” two days of military exercises in the waters off Taiwan, concluding a set of high-powered maneuvers aimed at asserting its sovereignty over the island — actions that ratcheted up tension in East Asia during 2025’s waning days. In a New Year’s Eve…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! China fired rockets into waters near Taiwan during large-scale live-fire drills Tuesday, staging its biggest military encirclement of the island in eight months while warning “separatist” forces and outside powers. A video released by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command showed forces firing rockets into…
Beijing — China launched missiles and deployed dozens of fighter aircraft and navy vessels around Taiwan on Tuesday for a second day of live-fire drills aimed at simulating a blockade of the self-ruled island’s key ports and assaults on maritime targets. The two-day war games code-named “Justice Mission 2025” have been slammed by Taipei as…
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Tang Yanjun/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) Tang Yanjun | China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has put humanoid robots in the…
On December 24, Baku hosted the presentation of “Azerbaijan–China: Presidential Chronicle (2003–2025)”, authored by Professor Rafig Abbasov, Director of the Confucius Institute at the Azerbaijan University of Languages. The event was attended by Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lu Mei, who highlighted the book’s significance in tracing the evolution of bilateral relations between China and Azerbaijan…
All eyes are on how Beijing’s “Chinese dream” of eventual Taiwan reunification will unfold at a time when the leader of the United States – Taipei’s top international backer – appears less likely to intervene in case of a cross-strait conflict. In the first of a three-part series, Amber Wang looks at how recent moves…
China has reportedly built a working prototype of an advanced chip-making machine, defying Western predictions. Former ASML engineers are said to be behind the project, which aims for semiconductor independence. This development, a six-year government initiative, could significantly alter global chip supply chains, challenging ASML’s monopoly on crucial EUV technology. In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory,…
China has objected to India’s efforts to celebrate a 17th-century Dalai Lama well known for his love of poetry, seeing it as an attempt to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the region and its control over Tibetan Buddhism, according to experts. India hosted an international symposium on the 6th Dalai Lama in Tawang, his birthplace,…