Fifth Plenum News Today

The absence of the Third Plenum is consequential and dangerous for China; it both reflects a notable divide within the CCP and causes greater political instability.

(VAN) Two technological fields in which the rice industry has favorable conditions to achieve a pioneering position in agriculture include mechanization and automation and digital technology.

Chinese negotiators this week surprised their counterparts in the European Union with important market access concessions - after long months of intransigence

During the financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009, Beijing passed a $600 billion stimulus package (representing 13.4 percent of Chinese gross domestic product (GDP)) which allowed China to breeze through the worst global contraction since the Great Depression. With the U.S. mired in depression-like conditions, some believed that the “Beijing Consensus” of state-led capitalism seemed to have eclipsed the “Washington Consensus” of market capitalism.[1]

Jiang presided over the acceleration of capitalist restoration following the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, with devastating consequences for the working class.

Compared to the 19th Party Congress, this year’s report is more specific about China’s AI ambitions, including military applications.

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary “The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket ...

Russia and China have launched another attempt to develop a "new global reserve currency." In other words, they are again attacking the dollar. There is only one country that can dethrone the dollar, and it is not a BRICS nation. It is the United States.

Policies and laws related to land are extremely important for the stability and sustainable development of Vietnam. In fact, the perfection of these policies and laws is based on the political orientations of the Party, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on July 21.

As their strategic rivalry grows, China and the U.S. are increasingly operating in close proximity in the Asia Pacific. An accident or misinterpreted signal could set off a wider confrontation. The danger level is low, but dialogue is needed to dial it down further.