Day: May 8, 2025

China’s exports rose in April, signalling resilience in the face of US “reciprocal” tariffs unveiled last month. Advertisement China’s April exports grew by 8.1 per cent year on year to US$315.69 billion, customs data showed on Friday. The figure beat market expectations of a 1.9 per cent increase in a poll of economists by Reuters, and followed a 12.4 per cent rise in March. Exports to the United States fell by 21 per cent, compared with a 9.09 per cent rise in March. Imports, meanwhile, fell by 0.2 per cent…

Producers of tungsten products in developed nations, including those in the defence sector, are waking up to the need to diversify their raw material supply sources after three decades of readily available exports from China came to a sudden halt, according to a mines developer. Advertisement On February 4, Beijing added five critical industrial metals including tungsten to its export restriction list while announcing tariffs on certain American imports, as part of its retaliation against Washington’s decision to raise duties on all Chinese imports by 10 per cent. Export permits…

Chinese academics are calling for the “Western-centric” version of World War II to be rewritten by pushing back the start date nearly a decade and placing Chinese forces firmly on the front line against fascism. Advertisement Instead of Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland marking the beginning of the global conflict, some academics at a second world war history seminar in Beijing on Tuesday said it should be Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria, which escalated into a full-scale war in China in 1937. “This historical perspective that marks 1939 as World…

China and Russia accused the United States on Thursday of increasing the risk of a nuclear war and vowed to jointly address threats, highlighting the escalation of Beijing and Moscow’s strategic confrontation with Washington. Advertisement After a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin held with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow, the two nations issued a joint statement on global strategic stability. In it, they condemned several US policies, including the expansion of its security alliances, the forward deployment of strategic weapons, the development of global missile defences like the “Golden…

India on Thursday claimed it destroyed an air-defence system in Pakistan’s second-largest city, fuelling speculation that the military equipment was Chinese-made, a day after Islamabad said it deployed fighter jets made by China in an encounter with India’s air force. Advertisement A press release issued by the Indian government accused Pakistan of attempting to “engage a number of military targets in northern and western India” using drones and missiles. “These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems” and the ensuing debris was being recovered to…

Lin Shaozhen has risen in the field of biomechanics to carve out an impressive international career. Now, after spending the past five years at Aix-Marseille University in France, and more recently at the University of Singapore, Lin has returned to work in China. Advertisement In February, Lin, who is in his thirties, took a full-time position as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong, according to the university’s website. In the past week or so, though, Lin has also been…