The World Bank on Thursday said it raised its forecasts for China's gross domestic product growth for 2024 and 2025 to account for the effect of recent policy easing and near-term export strength. China’s GDP growth is now expected at 4.
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions downstream in India and Bangladesh.
There have been at least 20 such attacks in China this year, with a death toll of more than 90 people. Government officials have called these incidents “isolated” and offered explanations emphasizing individual motivations: the driver in the Zhuhai car attack was unhappy with his divorce settlement,
Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals.
A Chinese court has issued a suspended death sentence to a man who rammed his car into crowds outside a primary school in southern China last month, injuring more than two dozen people in one of several violent attacks that has recently rattled the country and prompted officials to ramp up security measures.
China says a plan by the Philippines to deploy midrange missiles would be a provocative move that stokes regional tensions.
The Chinese navy added nearly one-third of its vertical missile launch cells in 2021 and 2022 alone, according to a new report.
China kept a key interest rate unchanged — a move widely expected by economists — as it seeks to keep its powder dry ahead of possible escalation in trade tensions with the US.
China's commerce ministry said on Wednesday it would extend its anti-dumping investigation into brandy originating from the European Union by three months, less than the full extension allowed under its previous guidance.
A two-tier system that has long made workers leave children behind in villages is cutting into birthrates.
Taiwan's Presidential Office conducted its first ever tabletop exercise simulating a military escalation with China, several officials briefed on the matter said, at a time when the island is facing renewed Chinese military threats.