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China has surpassed Russia as the biggest direct foreign investor in Central Asia, a resource-rich region that has long been in Moscows sphere of influence but is being increasingly courted by Beijing, according to data from the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).Chinas cumulative direct investment in Central Asia over the past decade exceeded $35 billion in 2025, the EDB said in areportpublished in December. Found
Read full story →GUIYANG, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's U23 men's national football team cruised to a 3-0 victory over Tajikistan at the 2026 CFA Team China International Youth Football Tournament in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Tuesday. The win also marked China's second consecutive victory over Tajikistan, following a 1-0 triumph in Zunyi, another city in Guizhou, on June 6. The two friendly matches agai
Read full story →GUIYANG, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's U23 men's national football team cruised to a 3-0 victory over Tajikistan at the 2026 CFA Team China International Youth Football Tournament in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Tuesday. The win also marked China's second consecutive victory over Tajikistan, following a 1-0 triumph in Zunyi, another city in Guizhou, on June 6. The two friendly matches agai
Read full story →GUIYANG, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's U23 men's national football team cruised to a 3-0 victory over Tajikistan at the 2026 CFA Team China International Youth Football Tournament in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Tuesday. The win also marked China's second consecutive victory over Tajikistan, following a 1-0 triumph in Zunyi, another city in Guizhou, on June 6. The two friendly matches agai
Read full story →Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea may have helped cement China’s “indispensable” role in ensuring regional stability and highlighted its importance to his host’s economy, analysts said. The Chinese president wrapped up his visit on Tuesday afternoon after reaching what he said was a “critical consensus” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Xi told a lunch at the Kumsusan State Guest House that he was ready to work with Kim to to “jointly guide China-North Korea relations...
Read full story →China is expected to overtake the United States as the world’s nuclear power leader, as the AI boom and war in the Middle East renew a global push for reliable energy sources, according to a new report. While the US maintained the world’s largest operational fleet of nuclear reactors, China now accounted for nearly half of all those under construction globally and was expected to match American capacity within five years, Gavekal Technologies said on Monday. “By a wide margin, China will have...
Read full story →BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The 9th China-Eurasia Expo, scheduled to be held in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, from June 25 to 29, will promote trade and investment cooperation, Chinese officials have noted. Deng Bo, deputy director of the Trade Development Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce, said at a press conference on Tuesday that this year's expo features an exhibi
Read full story →BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The 9th China-Eurasia Expo, scheduled to be held in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, from June 25 to 29, will promote trade and investment cooperation, Chinese officials have noted. Deng Bo, deputy director of the Trade Development Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce, said at a press conference on Tuesday that this year's expo features an exhibi
Read full story →BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The 9th China-Eurasia Expo, scheduled to be held in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, from June 25 to 29, will promote trade and investment cooperation, Chinese officials have noted. Deng Bo, deputy director of the Trade Development Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce, said at a press conference on Tuesday that this year's expo features an exhibi
Read full story →China has given Russia some of the first soil samples collected on the far side of the moon by the Chang’e-6 lunar lander. On June 3, 1.5 grams (0.05 ounces) of lunar soil collected during the mission were handed over to the Planetary Physics Department of the Russian Space Research Institute. “The transfer of the soil samples took place as part of the development of cooperation in space science and lunar exploration between Russia and China,” the institute said. “Researchers will study the...
Read full story →From Sunderland to Spain, Chinese manufacturers are revitalising idle factories and investing where traditional European carmakers are pulling back. Chinese carmakers are rapidly transforming from export-oriented manufacturers into embedded participants in Europe’s automotive industrial base, a shift increasingly visible across both continental Europe and Britain. What began as a strategy focused on exporting low-cost electric vehicles (EVs) has evolved into a broader industrial expansion...
Read full story →US President Donald Trump’s administration is holding regular high-level discussions with Britain to secure the long-term future of the strategically important Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, a US official has told the South China Morning Post. The confirmation comes amid reports that the White House is actively considering buying the Chagos Islands – host to a strategically important joint US-British military facility – amid concerns over China’s expanding naval ambitions in the...
Read full story →A frenzied fortnight of EU policymaking on China kicked off on Tuesday, amid signs that big member states may be willing to take a tougher stance on trade despite huge pressure from Beijing. Beijing’s commerce vice-minister, Ling Ji, was set to meet with new EU trade director Ditte Juul Jorgensen in Brussels and have talks with Chinese businesses in the Belgian capital before heading to forums in Berlin and Dusseldorf. At the same time, EU diplomats began preparations for next week’s blockbuster...
Read full story →A Chinese woman who went to great lengths to access her late brother’s blog has discovered his deep love for her 14 years after his death, moving many people online. Wenwen, 24, from southwestern China’s Sichuan province, had a brother 14 years older than her and her twin sister. In 2012, he died in a car crash with their father on their way to another city for work. He was only 24 years old. After they died, Wenwen’s mother worked hard to support the girls’ studies. Both have become...
Read full story →The Pentagon added tech giants Alibaba and Baidu and carmaker BYD to a blacklist of Chinese companies with military ties amid widening competition between the world’s two largest economies. Drug maker WuXi AppTec, robot company Unitree and carmaker Nio were among other businesses added to the 1260H list, according to a US Department of Defence notice. Some Chinese companies no longer operating in the United States were removed in the annual update. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The...
Read full story →China is moving to leverage data as a core strategic asset, aiming to build industry-specific data sets to power its next-generation artificial intelligence models, as developers worldwide grapple with a looming data drought. On Monday, the country’s data authority unveiled a sweeping nationwide plan to boost the supply of high-quality AI training data, underscoring Beijing’s resolve to secure a leading position in the global AI competition. The draft plan, published online by the National Data...
Read full story →Beyond the diplomatic choreography of last month’s Xi-Trump summit, what are the structural implications of a less confrontational US-China relationship for the Asia-Pacific? The subsequent visits by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India and US Secretary of Defence Peter Hegseth to Singapore in late May shed some light on the question. Both Rubio and Hegseth had accompanied Trump to Beijing. Perhaps most telling was the switch in the usage of a geographic term by the US administration. In...
Read full story →Inside a metal shell being hurled from a standstill to a speed many times faster than sound, the pressure could be as high as an elephant standing on every square inch of a human body. To make matters worse, an invisible, violent magnetic storm is raging through its path. This is the world inside an electromagnetic rail gun. For decades, this has been the nightmare that kept weapons engineers awake. Their dream was to place a guidance chip inside a rail gun shell so it could steer itself to a...
Read full story →A long-suffering domestic violence victim in China who struggled to cover the 7,000 yuan (US$1,000) cost of treating her injuries has discovered that her husband had hidden 14 million yuan (US$2 million) from her. The 53-year-old woman’s story, reported by Shanghai Morning Post in early June, has been viewed 20 million times on mainland social media and triggered a heated discussion. The woman, surnamed Wang, who lives in the southwestern municipality Chongqing, and her husband, surnamed He,...
Read full story →A Chinese team has transplanted a pig’s kidneys and liver into a patient who had suffered brain death, a world first that could pave the way for multi-organ animal-to-human transplants. After the operation, the organs functioned within the 53-year-old man for nearly five days before the study was ended in line with his family’s wishes. Xenotransplantation, or the transplant of organs or tissues from one species to another, could help tackle global organ shortages that leave patients in limbo or...
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