Brisk trade between the world's top two economies should restore supply chains in high-value industries such as tech but slow the flight of capital from China to emerging Asia.
After-sales services cost money and some countries worry about the quality of goods as well as the political dimension of letting Chinese crews service equipment, experts say.
Chinese investment, including mergers and acquisitions, has grown since 2000 in the resource-rich region traditionally backed by the United States.
For athletes, the stresses of training for the Olympics in Beijing are compounded by the uncertainty of the pandemic and political pressure placed on China.
A high for Australia defense signals a new low for Sino-Australia relations.
China resents that the vessels — faster and stealthier than conventional ones — may be aimed at containing its own military, analysts say.
Shipments of China-made vaccines boost Beijing’s image in countries where citizens may otherwise distrust it
US and Chinese officials take part in back-to-back diplomacy in Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and South Korea.
Manila vies with Beijing over access to disputed South China Sea and has warmed this year toward United States, Chinese Cold War rival.
Visuals released over the years in China are seen as inspiring the army to care more about fighting Taiwan, a rival since the 1940s.
A growing network of crisis-defusing telephone hotlines between China and other Asian countries shows Beijing’s intent to strengthen those relations but does not resolve the wider disputes that could spark conflict, analysts believe.
China is showing new interest in working with Southeast Asian countries in the disputed resource-rich South China Sea as its superpower rival, the United States, gains diplomatic momentum under President Joe Biden, analysts in Asia say.
Other countries have their own human rights issues and their organization, ASEAN, is not set up to tackle anyone’s domestic politics.
Manila had protested mooring of Chinese boats at disputed South China Sea reef.
This month alone China parked a rover on Mars and let debris from a rocket fall into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives; analysts say the People’s Liberation Army is keeping up with the nation’s space developments.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency in Beijing said Vietnam will never 'follow other countries in opposing China'.
The island had gone more than 200 days last year without a local coronavirus case, In the past week it has reported nearly 1,000.
A government-run Chinese maritime institute says 46,000 to 70,000 fishing personnel in Vietnam have been trained to do maritime military duties.
Updates to China’s Maritime Traffic Safety Law allows stopping foreign-registered vessels that enter Chinese-claimed waters, including seas claimed by other countries.
Health officials say 26 people have been infected in cluster that apparently began with inbound cargo aircraft pilots and spread into airport hotel.
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