Chinese advice
PAKISTAN’S law-enforcement agencies have completed the investigation of the Dasu terrorist attack carried out against Chinese nationals in March, in record time. This is, indeed, a remarkable achievement, but it does not…
The Chinese dream
The twice-a-decade national congress of the Communist Party of China successfully concluded in Beijing in October. The national congress that comprises nearly 2,300 elected and specially invited delegates from across…
Chinese firms push 5G credentials despite US ban
On a stage reserved for the biggest players in the global telecoms industry, three Chinese firms took their place alongside three Western companies — and pushed the message that they…
Imran’s Chinese whispers
A mere coincidence it surely was that a briefing by army and intelligence leaders given to a parliamentary committee on national security was held on the same day that China…
Chinese companies flee overseas to avoid US tariffs
A growing number of Chinese companies are adopting a crafty way to evade US President Donald Trump's tariffs: remove the "Made in China" label by shifting production to countries such…
Chinese yuan displacing US dollar?
President Trump's surprise announcement on March 1, 2018 that the US will institute tariffs on steel and aluminum imports seem to have upset stock markets, angered US allies around the…
The Chinese version
TENSIONS between China and the US have escalated after the House of Representative’s Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, 2019. The move is of a piece with the allegations of many…
Lessons from Chinese gangs
It is such shocking news. For months, some Chinese gangs preyed upon hundreds of unsuspecting Pakistani women, trapping them in bondage and the sex trade under the pretence of legal…
A Chinese ‘re-education’
IN an interview with a Turkish television channel, Prime Minister Imran Khan completely sidestepped a question about the condition of Uighur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang province. He admitted that…
Building an egalitarian society
The global economic system is being seen to be under existential stress in view of various new factors that have emerged over the last decade or so. And because of…
