The resumption of direct flights between India and the Chinese mainland after a five-year suspension is helping revitalize bilateral exchanges, with the recent breakthrough having a particularly significant positive effect on education and cultural ties, observers said. Indian students are among the primary beneficiaries, as direct flights have reduced travel costs and reignited youths’ enthusiasm for pursuing higher studies in China. “It is fantastic news for us. Travel will be much easier, and traveling expenses will be less than half now,” said Priyanshu Yadav, an Indian student who recently completed…
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Christophe Fouquet, the CEO of ASML, a leading Dutch chip equipment manufacturer, has said that the geopolitical landscape indicates the US will persist in exerting pressure to impose stricter restrictions on ASML’s exports to China, according to a report by Reuters. “One of the debates is, is it really about national security? The other debate you start to see … is does it help us or does it hurt us? I see a lot of companies in the US that start to also ask that question,” he said at a…
Reuters recently published an “exclusive” story about a so-called Chinese “Manhattan Project,” claiming that Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine. Regardless of whether the report – replete with “sources say” – was a smokescreen or not, the anxiety it conveys over China’s technological progress is palpable. This anxiety precisely reveals to the world an unhealthy mindset that often appears in the West. Lithography machines are major technical equipment that some countries believe it is the “last bastion”…
Package includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, and has drawn an angry response from China. The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10bn that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China. The state department announced the sales late on Wednesday during a nationally televised address by president Donald Trump, who made scant mention of foreign policy issues and did not speak about China or Taiwan at all. US-Chinese tensions have ebbed and flowed during Trump’s…
President Xi Jinping has urged the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions to actively align with the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), and better integrate into and serve the country’s overall development. Xi made the remarks on Tuesday while meeting separately with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region John Lee Ka-chiu and Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region Sam Hou-fai, both of whom are on duty visits to Beijing. During his meeting with Lee, Xi heard a report from the Hong Kong SAR chief…
Donald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction on national security charges. “I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,” Trump told reporters on Monday, without specifying when he asked Xi. “He’s an older man, and he’s not well. So I did put that request out. We’ll see what happens.” The US president had said before he returned to the White House that…
Governments, institutions and rights groups across the world have condemned the conviction of the former pro-democracy media tycoon and British citizen Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong on national security charges. The 78-year-old was found guilty in West Kowloon district court on Monday of one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications and two counts of conspiracy to foreign collusion. The charges were brought under the city’s punitive national security law , introduced in 2020, and a British colonial-era sedition law that has been used in recent years by authorities. Lai…