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The People's Bank of China. Photo: iStock

China targets leverage in bond markets

by Asia Times staff January 5, 2018February 18, 2020

A file photo shows a Long March V rocket, so far the most powerful carrier rocket made by China to date, at the Wenchang spaceport in southern Hainan province. Photo: Xinhua

China boldly goes into space with 40 planned missions

by Asia Times staff January 4, 2018February 18, 2020

Afghanistan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, (L) China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif after the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Dialogue in Beijing on December 26, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee

Afghanistan, Beijing, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia

China mediates between Pakistan and Afghanistan

by Sabena Siddiqui January 4, 2018

A file photo shows Russian and Chinese flags in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua

Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

What China, Russia want from each other in weapon R&D

by Frank Chen January 4, 2018February 18, 2020

Emerging Asia markets outperformed their European and Latin American counterparts in 2017. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Emerging Asia market triumph may prove fleeting

by Gary Kleiman January 4, 2018

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang speakis durign a press briefing. Photo: Foreign Ministry of China

Beijing, China, World

Beijing responds to report of secret aid to North Korea with two words

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Tiangong-1 space lab, precursor of China's own space station, has been decommissioned. Photo: Xinhua

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Malaysia

China admits space lab will fall, but in ‘controlled way’

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping checks the outfit and gear of a member of an armed police regiment. File Photo: Xinhua

Beijing, Chengdu, China, Chongqing, Tianjin

Party absorbs paramilitary police force in fear of coups

by Frank Chen January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

China's economy is starting to resemble a giant jigsaw puzzle. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Middle East, Shanghai, Singapore, United Kingdom, World

Defying gravity means solving China’s economic puzzle

by Gordon Watts January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Australia's flag flutters in front of the Great Hall of the People during a welcoming ceremony for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (not in picture) in Beijing, China, April 14, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, Brunei, China, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

China dangles trade threat over Australia

by Alan Boyd January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

An aerial view of the Fiery Cross Reef, now a 2.8 sq km artificial island. Photo: CCTV

AT Finance, Beijing, China, South Asia, Vietnam

In pictures: The South China Sea reef that became an island

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

Beijing, China, North Korea, Northeast Asia

More Trump twitter fuel: New report of covert aid to Pyongyang

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

LeEco’s Jia Yueting defies order to return to China

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo: iStock

Beijing launches first property program with elderly care

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

A Chinese worker shows a bottle of crude oil sampled from the oil pipe at the terminal of the China-Russia oil pipeline in Daqing city. Photo: AFP

Beijing, China, European Union, Russia, World

New pipeline could double China’s crude imports from Russia

by Asia Times staff January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

India's foreign secretary designate Vijay Keshav Gokhale (right) with an Israeli diplomat Photo: Courtesy Twitter

Beijing, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Old China hand to guide India’s global path

by Saikat Datta January 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. Photo: Reuters/Jorge Adorno

Beijing, China, Taiwan

Taiwan sets up elite unit to protect president amid China invasion fears

by Asia Times staff January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

A member of hotel staff was seen using a toilet brush to clean two teacups. Photo: Weibo

Three luxury hotels in Harbin probed for hygiene problems

by Asia Times staff January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

A man walks past a poster about the People's Liberation Army featuring a portrait of President Xi Jinping. Photo: Reuters / Thomas Peter

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Vietnam

Lots in a name: reshuffled PLA units resist Xi’s reforms

by Asia Times staff January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

CPN-UML chairman Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (left) shakes hands with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, during a news conference in Kathmandu on December 17, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Navesh Chitrakar

Bangladesh, Beijing, China, India, Maldives, Nepal, South Asia, Sri Lanka

New Nepal government to face tough foreign policy challenges

by Kamal Dev Bhattarai January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

China's manufacturing conveyor belt is still humming along. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, European Union, Middle East, World

Manufacturing activity expansion keeps China on a roll

by Robert L. Anderson January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

Is Kim Jong-un's latest entreaty legit, or is he attempting yet another hustle in the tried and true Kim family regime tradition? Photo: Reuters / KCNA

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Iran, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, World

The economic consequences for China of a new Korean War

by Danny Lam January 2, 2018

Is Kim Jong-un's latest entreaty legit, or is he attempting yet another hustle in the tried and true Kim family regime tradition? Photo: Reuters / KCNA

Beijing, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, World

Kim warns US that ‘nuclear launch button is on his desk’

by Robert L. Anderson January 1, 2018February 18, 2020

Visitors pose in front of an ice sculpture of an intercontinental ballistic missile at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea in a photo released by Kyodo on January 1, 2018. Photo: Kyodo via Reuters

Beijing, China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, World

Strategic, market views for Korean peninsula in 2018

by Andrew Salmon January 1, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees reach the Bangladeshi side of the Naf river in Palang Khali after crossing the from Myanmar. Photo: Reuters / Jorge Silva

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, European Union, India, Japan, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, Turkey, World

Dhaka finds itself at crossroads of global, internal affairs

by Khalid Ibn Muneer January 1, 2018

Filipino fishermen pass by a large Chinese vessel at the disputed Scarborough Shoal. Photo: Reuters/Erik De Castro

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, European Union, Germany, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, South Asia, Taiwan, World

US security outlook more like 1930s than Cold War era

by Grant Newsham January 1, 2018February 18, 2020

A cyclist rides by Taiwan and Chinese flags displayed during a rally prior to Tsai Ing-wen’s presidential inauguration in 2016. Photo: Reuters

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan

Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo to face more menacing from Beijing

by Frank Chen January 1, 2018February 18, 2020

China is clamping down on overseas ATM withdrawals. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, Hong Kong, World

China tightens grip on overseas ATM withdrawals

by Robert L. Anderson January 1, 2018February 18, 2020

A Shan State Army-South soldier stands guard outside the insurgent group's headquarters ahead of the Shan National Day in Loi Tai Leng, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. Photo: AFP/KC Ortiz

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Myanmar, South Asia

Myanmar’s cockpit of anarchy

by Anthony Davis December 31, 2017February 18, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during a meeting at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on October 13, 2016. Photo: AFP / Tang Chhin Sothy

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, Cambodia, China, European Union, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, World

How Asia’s ‘people of the year’ muddled through in 2017

by David Simmons December 30, 2017February 18, 2020