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Chinese spies have attempted to make contact with over 20,000 people in the United Kingdom through online channels, the director of MI5 has claimed. “We have seen a sustained campaign on a pretty epic scale,” Ken McCallum told the BBC during an unprecedented public appearance on Tuesday alongside his counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance. The British intelligence chief…

WASHINGTON : The United States must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization program, a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel said on Thursday. The report from the Strategic Posture Commission comes amid tensions with China over Taiwan and other issues and worsening frictions with Russia over…

New stimulus under consideration in China would raise this year’s budget deficit and ensure the economy achieves the government’s official growth target of about 5%, though more support is likely needed to boost weak demand. That’s according to economists and analysts after Bloomberg News reported policymakers are weighing the issuance of at least 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) of additional…

Xi Jinping enhanced China’s sway in the world by lending money for infrastructure. Now he’s collecting debts and rethinking his signature aid initiative. China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, founded the Belt and Road Initiative a decade ago to use the country’s economic might to enlarge its geopolitical heft and counter the influence of the United States and other industrialized democracies.…

Introduction Xi Jinping’s undeclared alliance with Vladimir Putin seems to have landed China in a foreign policy quagmire. In February 2022, just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese and Russian leaders issued a joint statement outlining a strategic partnership "without limits" — a statement that observers interpreted as a tacit endorsement of Putin’s war. However, neither leader anticipated the…

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The United States must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization program, a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel said on Thursday. The report from the Strategic Posture Commission comes amid tensions with China over Taiwan and other issues and worsening frictions…

Following the approach of consultation and collaboration for shared benefits, China's practical cooperation in economy and trade with Belt and Road countries has grown in scope and quality over the past decade and achieved win-win results, said Guo Tingting, vice-minister of commerce. "China's supersized market has provided important development opportunities for countries involved in the BRI, and goods originating in these…

The visit, which could take place later this month or early next, would come after U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi last month. Late last week, Reuters published a report claiming that officials in Vietnam and China are preparing for a possible visit from President Xi Jinping to Hanoi at the end of October or early November. The report…

BEIJING — China plans to expand its space station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform for near-Earth missions as the Nasa-led International Space Station (ISS) nears the end of its lifespan. The operational lifetime of the Chinese space station will be more than 15 years, the China Academy of Space Technology…

BEIJING - China suffered direct economic losses of 308.29 billion yuan (S$58.8 billion) over the first nine months of 2023 from natural disasters such as torrential rain, deadly landslides, freakish hailstorms and a string of typhoons, the government said. The Emergency Management Ministry unveiled on Sunday the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged…