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Chinese study finds GSSAP close approaches a threat to its GEO assets Chinese researchers have noted close approaches by U.S. GSSAP satellites to Chinese spacecraft in the geostationary belt, ...

Group warns that if its financial performance ‘continues to deteriorate’ it faces possible default after huge half-year losses
Embattled Chinese developer Country Garden reported a 48.9bn yuan ($6.7bn) loss for the first half of the year in a stock exchange filing on Wednesday, adding to worries of a potentially catastrophic default.
Its tenuous state has sparked fears of a collapse that could have far-reaching consequences for the Chinese financial system two years after the fall of Evergrande.

A surge of hatred against Asian Americans during the pandemic led one educator to realize just how urgently the Korean American studies class was needed.

In March, 1929, when the twenty-four-year-old Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made her London stage début on the city’s West End, in a play called “The Circle of Chalk,” critics took ...

The foreign secretary’s approach is an improvement, but there’s still a long way to go
There’s an old joke about a lost traveller asking how to reach their destination. The local they stop helpfully tells them: “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.” The foreign secretary on Wednesday, but finds himself in something of the same situation when it comes to China policy. In a report published the same day, the foreign affairs committee a lack of coherence in the UK government’s approach to date. James Cleverly began from an unenviable position.
For too long, the west was complacent in assuming that economic opening up would bring a friendlier, more politically helpful China. But the UK’s specific original sin was George Osborne’s declaration of a “golden era” of Sino-British relations. The then chancellor made it clear that human rights and other considerations were not so much a distant second to doing business as off the table altogether. China’s subsequent actions and rhetoric made that embrace look naive as well as unethical. The rethink on allowing investment and involvement was a necessary corrective. But Liz Truss’s reckless, hawkish posturing is also ill-judged.

On trip to Beijing, James Cleverly says Britain is ‘clear-eyed’ about its disagreements with world’s second largest economy
James Cleverly has defended his meetings with senior Chinese government members, saying it would be a mistake to try to isolate China, during the first visit to Beijing in five years by a UK foreign secretary.
Cleverly said he believed China genuinely cared about UK views on human rights, following his meetings on Wednesday with China’s vice-president, Han Zheng, and foreign minister, Wang Yi. However, there was no indication of a change in Chinese policy such as the lifting of its sanctions on British parliamentarians, the test for the trip set by the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy.

For many students of Asian descent, the initial confusion in identifying and apprehending the wrong person in Monday’s fatal shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dredged up ever ...

For many students of Asian descent, the initial confusion in identifying and apprehending the wrong person in Monday’s fatal shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dredged up ever ...

Goldman used cash from a sovereign wealth fund to buy seven companies, including a cyber security firm that services the British government.

Goldman used cash from a sovereign wealth fund to buy seven companies, including a cyber security firm that services the British government.