Tag: Analysis
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Chinese brands should go global but stay local
Financial and market power will always be the key business objective of any branded product or service. Yet brands need to pay greater attention to the ... -
‘Full-time children’ move back in with parents, take on chores as good jobs grow scarce
When she first moved to the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after graduating from college, Marguerite Wang imagined she would spend her career working hard in ... -
Will he go by plane or train? How Kim may travel to Russia for a meeting with Putin
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s possible trip to Russia might be like his first one in 2019 — a rattling, 20-hour ride aboard a green-and-yellow ... -
Buildup of American forces in Persian Gulf a new signal of worsening US-Iran conflict
Thousands of Marines backed by advanced U.S. fighter jets and warships are slowly building up a presence in the Persian Gulf. It’s a sign that while ... -
Foreign minister Qin is ousted, but his combative style is expected to continue
China’s “sharp-tongued” foreign minister, Qin Gang, who echoed the words of nationalist Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping, warning of “conflict and confrontation” with the ... -
Election leaves Spain in political disarray with no party to form a government
Spaniards woke up yesterday to find their country in political disarray after a general election a day earlier left no party with a clear path to ... -
Racist abuse of Vinícius Júnior highlights entrenched problem in football
Hanging from a highway bridge in Madrid, an effigy of one of the world’s most famous Black soccer players stands as a graphic reminder of the ... -
China’s Ukraine plan mixes peace, self-interest
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s plan to send an envoy to Ukraine allows his government to deflect criticism of its support for Moscow and pursue a bigger ... -
EU leaders beat a path to Xi’s door seeking Beijing’s help
In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on course to remain in power for life, leaders ... -
New India-born World Bank chief: Real change or rebranding?
The incoming president of the World Bank was born in India and forged his early business success there, a fact supporters say gives Ajay Banga valuable ... -
Brazil’s Lula visits China, seeking ties and Ukraine support
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flew off to China yesterday [Macau time] to strengthen ties with his nation’s biggest trade partner and win support ... -
China military ‘ready to fight’ after drills near Taiwan
China’s military declared this week it is “ready to fight” after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island ... -
Experts laud essence of Chinese-style democracy
The essence of Chinese-style democracy is to respect and safeguard human rights, experts said last weekend. Its purpose is to realize common prosperity for the large ... -
China, Japan leaders end visits to warring capitals
Ukraine faced more Russian drone attacks yesterday that killed at least three people shortly after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left Kyiv. Kishida was back in ... -
China looks to consumers to drive economic rebound
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s agenda for the annual meeting of the legislature: Revive the economy by encouraging consumers to spend more now that severe anti-virus controls ... -
‘It just rang’: In crises, US-China hotline goes unanswered
Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his ... -
US forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats
Once-secret ammunition bunkers and barracks lay abandoned, empty and overrun by weeds — vestiges of American firepower in what used to be the United States’ largest ... -
Threats, advantages seen in China’s shrinking population
For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the nation’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will ... -
China economy recovering but hampered by virus outbreaks
Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has lifted anti-COVID-19 restrictions. But his gym in the eastern ... -
As Qatar World Cup unfolds, planet keeps spinning
Soccer — or football, to most of the global billions watching the World Cup this month — is not human society itself, with all its thorny ... -
Have China and India shifted stance on Russia-Ukraine war?
China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of a ... -
Ukraine war: boost or setback for climate efforts?
Luetzerath may be 1,000 miles from Ukraine, but it is an indirect victim of Russia’s invasion and some fear so is Earth’s climate. The ancient hamlet ... -
‘Our phoenix’: Lula’s ups and downs in Brazil defy belief
Four years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reputation and political future were in tatters. After an unlikely rise from poverty to union leader to Brazil’s ... -
Global shares mixed after China economy slows, HK down 6.4%
Global shares were mixed, while Hong Kong’s benchmark plunged 6.4% yesterday as dismay over a lack of fresh policy initiatives from a Chinese Communist Party congress ... -
China’s ruling party congress offers look at future leaders
While Xi Jinping is primed to receive a third term as head of China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday, it is unknown who will join him ... -
Intra-Party polls reflect democracy
The Communist Party of China attaches great importance to intra-Party elections, which are based on five factors. First, intra-Party elections follow the principle of democratic centralism ... -
Chinese path gives world ‘new choice’
At a crucial moment in which China is embarking on a new journey to build a modern socialist country in all respects, the Communist Party of ... -
Xi gets chance to tighten hold on economy at meeting
President Xi Jinping, China’s most influential figure in decades, gets a chance to install more allies who share his vision of an even more dominant role ... -
No matter who climbs Beijing’s ranks, Xi rules: observer
For decades, Ho Pin made accurate predictions about China’s next leadership lineup — no small feat, given the black-box nature of Beijing politics. But now, days ... -
Xi heads abroad to promote strategic role
Chinese President Xi Jinping is using his first trip abroad since the start of the pandemic to promote his country’s strategic ambitions at a summit with ... -
One-China principle clearly violated by trip
It’s natural for China to feel angry and oppose the recent visit to Taiwan by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, because the trip openly violates ... -
One year after Afghanistan, US spy agencies pivot toward China
In a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency’s counterterrorism center, the CIA’s No. 2 official made clear that fighting al-Qaida and other extremist groups ... -
‘Las Vegas of Asia’ tells casinos to grow beyond gambling
Losing money due to COVID, the American casino giants that helped make Macau the “Las Vegas of Asia” face a fresh challenge: The tiny Chinese territory ... -
Marcos Jr. presidency complicates US efforts to counter China
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is raising immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in Asia and could complicate American ... -
Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Basheer was a young Taliban fighter barely out of his teens when the Islamic State group took over his village in eastern Afghanistan, nearly eight years ...
