Day: October 26, 2025

Chinese industrial firms saw their highest earnings surge in nearly two years last month, as production revved up while declines in factory-gate prices eased amid a government campaign to rein in excess capacity. Advertisement Industrial profits climbed for the second straight month in September, rising 21.6 per cent from a year earlier, their biggest gain since November 2023. That followed a 20.4 per cent jump in August. For the first nine months of the year, profits were up 3.2 per cent, according to data released Monday by the National Bureau…

Advanced manufacturing and the provision of services and entertainment – including pet and aged care and the production of short dramas – are powering pockets of growth in an otherwise sluggish Chinese job market, according to data from an online recruitment platform. Advertisement A report looking at third-quarter employment trends published this week by the platform, Zhaopin, said the new materials sector led all employment categories with a 66.7 per cent year-on-year increase in job postings in the period from July to September. In the “modern services” category, the pet…

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He has written extensively on security issues and international politics and is best known for his theory of offensive realism in international relations, which holds that to dominate the international system, great powers must constantly engage in security competition with each other, sometimes leading to war. Advertisement In this interview, Mearsheimer discusses the biggest threats to a liberal democracy, Donald Trump’s good instincts and the…

India and China resumed direct flights on Sunday after a five-year suspension, a move important both for trade and a symbolic step as Asia’s giants cautiously rebuild relations. Advertisement IndiGo flight 6E1703 from Kolkata touched down in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou just before 4am, officially resuming non-stop air links that had been suspended since 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent geopolitical tensions. The neighbours – the world’s two most populous nations – remain strategic rivals competing for regional influence but ties have eased gradually since a…