Henan province halts infra projects amid financial woes

by NewsdeskChina13 April 202313 April 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes The government has not been paying rent for land parcels that had been hired from individual citizens for public utilities….reports Asian Lite News The Henan Provincial Government has temporarily suspended…

SPECIAL: China’s unsustainable debt to Africa

by Newsdesk-Top NewsAfrica NewsChina7 April 20237 April 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes Africa goes Lanka way. Between 2000 and 2020 alone, China lent a total of US $59.87 billion to African countries and has become a largest creditor to Angola (US $42.6…

‘Perpetrator’ China

by Newsdesk-Top NewsAsia NewsChina6 April 20236 April 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes The governments of China, Turkey, Tajikistan, Russia and Egypt ranked as the most prolific perpetrators of transnational repression….reports Asian Lite News The Chinese government is the worlds most prolific perpetrator…

Xi loyalists take control of China’s national security

by Newsdesk-Top NewsAsia NewsChina1 April 20231 April 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes With Xi Jinping firmly at the apex, the rest of the chain of command of ultra-loyalists will pass through Cai Qi, China’s new security Tsar, reports Atul Aneja Riding on…

Has Russia become China’s junior partner?

by Newsdesk-Top NewsChinaEurope28 March 202328 March 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes China will have to actively explore the Russian market abandoned by Western companies and fill gaping holes and gaps, writes Sergei Strokan…reports Asian Lite News Chinese President Xi Jinping ended…

UK Firm on Decision to Ban Chinese-made Surveillance Cameras

by NewsdeskAsia NewsChinaWorld News27 March 202327 March 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes British politicians have campaigned to ban cameras from partly Chinese state-owned CCTV manufacturers Hikvision and Dahua, on grounds that they have been used as instruments of repression of the Muslim Uyghur…

China focus of Australian, Japanese PMs visits

by Newsdesk-Top NewsAsia NewsChina7 March 20237 March 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes The top-level visits take place immediately after foreign ministers of Quad grouping met in the Indian capital last week…reports Asian Lite News Over the next two weeks, Australia and Japan…

Xi consolidates power as Li Keqiang retires

by Newsdesk-Top NewsChinaPolitics4 March 20234 March 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Take the role of the premier, the person managing the world’s second-largest economy and, in theory, second only to Xi in the power structure. The National People’s Congress, which starts…

Chinese policies cost credibility

by Newsdesk-Top NewsAsia NewsChina21 February 202321 February 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes Xi Jinping has no interest in assuring the rest of the world, but only in signalling resolve and doubling down on threats. Instead of taking off-ramps, China prefers to act…

‘BRI aims to provide great power status to China’

by NewsdeskChinaIndia NewsInterview19 February 202319 February 2023

Reading Time: 9 minutes Dr. Anand Parappadi Krishnan, recently joined the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, as a Fellow. Prior to joining Shiv Nadar…