China and the new Middle East: Part – I
Due to its growing role in the Middle East, China is emerging as “an economic heavyweight…a diplomatic lightweight and…a military featherweight” in the region (RAND Corporation). There is no doubt…
China and the new Middle East: Part – II
China definitely deserves kudos for what it has accomplished regarding the Middle East in a world plagued by war after war. At the same time, what prompted Beijing to intervene…
G7’s nuanced pledge to ‘de-risk’ from China reflected concerns from Europe and Japan
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich democracies this weekend pledged to “de-risk” without “decoupling” from China, an approach that reflected European and Japanese concerns about pushing Beijing…
G7 summit statement to unfairly target China?
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries are set to discuss concern about China’s use of “economic coercion” in its dealings abroad as part of their larger joint statement…
Investors’ route to post-Covid China is via Europe
Investors are getting more bang for their buck this year by buying European companies with a focus on China than buying Chinese companies themselves, a sign of the unevenness of…
CICC Capital bans consulting firm Capvision after China crackdown
CICC Capital, a unit of leading Chinese investment bank CICC, has stopped using Capvision Partners’ services, three sources said, following an investigation into the “expert network” as part of Beijing’s…
China or the US?
WHILE day-to-day decisions made regarding Pakistan’s foreign policy relations invariably lie in the government domain, strategically important and long-term choices, such as whether Pakistan should move closer to the US…
Modernization in China
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has proposed advancing the progress of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization. In…
‘Smart mines’ show coal deeply embedded in China’s future
One hundred metres underground inside a pit in northern China, miners extract lumps of coal with the flick of a finger on a smartphone, as the country tries to drag…
Unstoppable China
The Chinese economy is off to a roaring start, clocking in a 4.5 per cent year-on-year growth rate in the first quarter of 2023 – a figure that has surpassed…
