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![]() Frank ChingThe Business Times |
IN north-western Beijing, amid universities, parks and museums, sits a striking structure that resembles a sundial - the China Millennium...
IN ASIA, the political atmosphere is heating up in the Taiwan Strait because of the convergence of developments in China, Taiwan and the United...
PRESS conferences generate news because of what a prominent person has to say, particularly in response to journalists' questions. In China, the...
FOR almost a year, Hong Kong's MTR Corporation has been mired in scandal. Reports of shoddy work in the US$12.4 billion Shatin-to-Central Link...
DURING the heyday of the Chinese empire, representatives of vassal states had to go through elaborate rituals including the infamous kowtow...
ON the second day of the new year, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he called for the fulfilment of the "historic...
EVER since Carrie Lam became chief executive of Hong Kong on July 1, 2017, she has had virtually absolute support from the Chinese government,...
AS CHINA celebrates the arrival of the Year of the Pig, trade negotiators on both sides of the Pacific pause briefly before resuming talks, this...
IN January 1979, the then 74-year-old Deng Xiaoping, survivor of repeated political purges to become China's leader after the death of Mao...
The Soviet Union's status as a superpower is no more, though Russia still has weapons capable of destroying the world many times over. That...
IN his New Year address, President Xi Jinping spoke proudly of China's achievements in 2018, including the launch of the Chang'e-4 lunar probe,...
TWENTY-SOME years ago, the main topic of conversation for people in Hong Kong was what lay in the future, when the British colony was handed...
FOR more than a thousand years, Chinese have used history as a mirror so as to learn lessons and not to repeat mistakes and have urged other...
IT is often said that the United States and the United Kingdom are two allies with a special relationship largely because they speak a common...
HENRY Kissinger, in his book On China, wrote that Chinese strategists think differently than their western counterparts because they are used to...
FORTY years ago this month, the Communist Party of China, led by Deng Xiaoping, issued a clarion call for reform. Deng, who had emerged as the...
THE agreement reached in Buenos Aires by United States President Donald Trump and President of China Xi Jinping bought China a 90-day grace...
THE decision by China and the United States to have negotiators meet in Buenos Aires ahead of a Dec 1 meeting between President Xi Jinping and...
THE visit last month by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of a treaty of peace and...
THE US government has recently emphasised that they view the relationship between the US and China as primarily competitive, albeit with...
FORTY years ago when China began its reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping, then the country's paramount leader, delivered a speech calling on...
LAST month, the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, made a trip back to China - and promptly vanished. His wife hasn't heard from him since...
HONG Kong was struck by the worst storm in recorded history last month, with Typhoon Mangkhut felling more than 40,000 trees and generally...
TEN years ago when I authored a short book on human rights to coincide with the Beijing Olympics, I wrote that the human-rights situation was...
THOUGH not a churchgoer, I have over the years maintained a lively interest in religion, particularly Christianity, no doubt because of a...