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Hong Kong’s future as financial center in jeopardy after Xi Jinping tightens restrictions

Kari Lindberg - 29 June, 2022

Situation looks dire with the annual economic growth forecast decreased, mainland's rigid Covid policies affects the city's competitive edge.

Big brother problem — Unlike India, China’s ties with our neighbourhood not marred by history

Shantanu Roy Chaudhury - 12 June, 2022

In ‘The China Factor’, Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury writes that while China’s strategic interests in India’s neighbourhood have increased, this has not been an entirely unilateral decision.

China eyeing ‘security pact’ with Pacific Island nations, floats 5-year action plan, says report

Pia Krishnankutty - 26 May, 2022

Reuters report details China 'plans' for cooperation with Pacific Island nations in policing, security, and trade, among other areas, ahead of Wang Yi's tour of 8 island nations.

China wants to restrict travel further, another Covid-Zero excess

Bloomberg News - 13 May, 2022

As most of the world shifts to living with the virus, Beijing's stubbornness is harming its citizens.

‘Air worse than Beijing’ isn’t much of an insult anymore

Justin Fox - 13 April, 2022

These worse-than-Beijing episodes are likely to occur more and more frequently — not because London’s air is getting worse, but because Beijing’s has gotten so much better.

China reached out to India as it’s facing heat from US on Ukraine. But Wang Yi bungled

+TFP Tara Kartha - 28 March, 2022

War was always a business enterprise for the US, and Ukraine is no different. But it doesn't outweigh the threat of a growing Chinese presence.

China’s concern on Afghanistan increases and a top Beijing watcher advises CCP on ‘war’

Aadil Brar - 14 February, 2022

Beijing’s support to Taliban was initially a surprise. But China is back to dealing with an old problem in Afghanistan – the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.

‘I am not Chinese, I am Taiwanese’: Conversations in Mandarin and how both cultures differ

Sowmiya Ashok - 8 February, 2022

As a Mandarin language student in Taipei, I am often told I add ‘R’s to words like a Beijinger. ‘That’s not how we say it in Taiwan,’ my teacher says.

David Fincher’s ‘Fight Club’ gets new ending in China, sparking social media storm

Bloomberg News - 26 January, 2022

Unlike original storyline, the Chinese version treats the 1999 movie's Project Mayhem undertaking as a thwarted & misguided attempt at criminality, giving authorities a win at the end.

Modi-Xi summits couldn’t stop India-China ‘strategic mistrust’, says ex-foreign secy Nirupama Rao

Nayanima Basu - 17 December, 2021

Nirupama Menon Rao, also former envoy to China & US, said Galwan incident impacted bilateral ties, but it won't be easy for India to go for 'surgical decoupling' with China.

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