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China’s economic mastermind Liu He takes centre-stage at Davos
President Xi Jinping is not attending Davos this year – he sent China’s economic mastermind instead. And although Liu He is no stranger to the annual gathering of the world’s business and political elite, he has not previously been the one giving th ...[Read more]
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Asian Dawn: Think Tank Claims China Will Supplant US as Largest Economy in 2032
A new report from a London think tank claims that China will totally overtake the US economy in size by 2032, with four other Asian nations – India, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia – joining it in the top 10. ...[Read more]
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China: US Has No Right to Act as Human-Rights Judge
Chinese officials have slammed the U.S. Treasury Department for sanctioning public security official Gao Yan, insisting that the United States has no right to act as a "human-rights judge." ...[Read more]
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All aboard China’s newest high-speed rail service
A new 658km high-speed rail service will be up and running in western China on Wednesday, linking Xian, home of China’s famed terracotta warriors, to Chengdu in the heart of giant panda country. With a top speed up to 250km/h, the new line took five yea ...[Read more]
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Giant oil field discovered in China with over billion tons of reserves
“Nearly 1.24 billion tons of crude have been found so far with about 520 million tons of proven reserves,” officials at the state’s company subsidiary PetroChina told the media. The company stressed the discovery came after ten years of geological e ...[Read more]
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From The Caucasus To The Balkans, China’s Silk Roads Are Rising
With its focus on Central Asia and Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative can be seen as fulfilling a strategy of challenging the West that can be traced back to Mao... The 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress made it clear that the New Silk Roads ...[Read more]
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Chinese engineers plan 1,000km tunnel from Tibet to Xinjiang
Chinese engineers are testing techniques that could be used to build a 1,000km tunnel – the world’s longest – to carry water from Tibet to Xinjiang, experts involved in the project say. The proposed tunnel, which would drop down from the world’s h ...[Read more]
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Making History: China and Russia are Transforming Enemies into Friends
Russia, China and Iran have in recent years drawn enormous benefit from the declining military and economic power of the United States, further propelled by a general mistrust of Washington's diplomatic and political abilities, both with Obama and now wit ...[Read more]
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Newspaper of Chinese Communist Party Explains: A new realm for socialism with Chinese characteristics
Today, the 19th CPC National Congress begins in Beijing. This congress comes at a critical moment of building a well-off society in an all-round way and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. The congress will give clear answers to such import ...[Read more]
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China Says Healthcare Access is a ‘Basic Human Right’
China, whose health system has improved steadily in recent years, said that equal health access is a "precondition for the survival of humanity." The Chinese government published a document on Friday analyzing public health development, stressing that hea ...[Read more]
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Has China created Nasa’s ‘impossible engine’?
A new video claims that scientists in China have created a working prototype of the 'impossible' fuel-free engine. The radical EmDrive has been hypothesised for years by Nasa, but the space agency has been unable to create a working version. If the physic ...[Read more]
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