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China is trying to revive its economy to reach pre-COVID heights but future growth rates might be closer to developed economies like the US and UK.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins government officials from the U.S. and China during a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023.
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The US and China are engaged in a classic power struggle. The question is, who will come out on top?
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Australians remain deeply concerned about China as a long term potential military threat
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Both sides have stressed the importance of dialogue in order to avoid confrontation. Can relations between the two continue to improve?
Working to understand and appreciate differences between western and Chinese approaches to education could contribute to the cross-cultural understanding we need to address global crises.
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Teachers in Ontario elementary schools can learn from how teachers in China approach collaboration as subject area specialists, while Chinese teachers can learn about developing the whole child.
President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2021 at the Oval Office.
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The Biden administration is courting Indian leader Narendra Modi in part to deter China’s rise. But India’s decline in democracy could complicate relations.
Lula and Modi walking a new diplomatic path.
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Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the nonaligned movement of yesteryear.
Workers assemble ice-skating shoes at a manufacturing factory in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China’s Hebei province.
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Despite significant financial and political pressures, many companies are still not moving their production and manufacturing out of China. Why not?
A Chinese researcher working on a COVID-19 vaccine in a Beijing laboratory, September 2020.
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There are many complex reasons why an international investigation would be difficult both diplomatically and practically.
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Tibetan Buddhists may face a future of duelling Dalai Lamas: one born in exile who will receive traditional religious training, the other a mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
Taiwan holds a dominant position in the microchip industry and also makes the most advanced types.
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The disruption of Taiwan’s chip industry would affect everyone.
China has been contributing peacekeepers to the UN mission in Sudan for years.
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China’s involvement in Sudan is more financial than military, and favours stability.
China’s population peaked, and is now falling.
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African countries can learn from China about how to design policies that anticipate major demographic changes in their societies.
The USS Chung-Hoon observes a Chinese navy ship cross into its path.
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What was behind the latest encounter between US and Chinese military vessels in contested waters?
Police detain a man for shining a light near the entrance to Victoria Park in Hong Kong. Commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre have been banned since 2021.
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Freedom of speech and expression has been destroyed, despite Beijing’s promises they would be upheld.
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Albanese, in an address being promoted as the most important he has made internationally, warned of the dangers where there was not “the pressure valve of dialogue”.
China and the U.S. compete to be the world’s largest economy, but the dollar dominates the yuan as a currency.
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Despite China’s economic power, the yuan lags as a major global currency. Here’s why current US interest rates and sanctions on Russia may change that.
An American guided-missile cruiser off the coast of Japan near Mt. Fuji.
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NATO’s growing presence in the Pacific evokes a painful history that the western world has never confronted or fully acknowledged.
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African governments have more influence on China-funded projects than mainstream narratives acknowledge.
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Wanning Sun spent nearly a decade talking to migrant workers at the Apple factory in China’s Shenzhen about their intimate lives – and how their relationships are affected by inequality.