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If Chinese workers were to make less and buy more, other countries could grow faster and so buy more solar panels, electric vehicles, and other advanced manufactured goods from China.

ON the heels of Chinas Two Sessions — annual meetings of the National Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which began on March 4, 2024 and concluded on March 10, and the National Peoples Congress (NPC), which opened on March 5, and concluded on March 11, 2024, the Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) and the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the Philippines organized the 11th Manila Forum for Philippines-China Relations.

Chief Executive John Lee said Hong Kong had waited 26 years, eight months and 19 days to complete its "historic mission" - why?

The poker-style pastime, enjoyed by senior leaders, has spread beyond Beijing’s bureaucracy to junior and senior party officials alike.

An RFE/RL investigation found that surveillance equipment made by Hikvision and Dahua -- two partially state-owned Chinese companies -- is used by at least 28 military facilities in Romania, including at a NATO missile defense base.

President Xi Jinping reiterated his support for China’s development of hi-tech research and manufacturing, calling for more patents to be commercialised and turned into viable, popular products.

The meetings showed China’s leader is steering China along a path that is dictated by national security and party control, at the expense of everything else

Global Times note: Chinas annual Two Sessions officially ended on Monday. This series of meetings is vital to defining Chinas approach to economic, political and foreign policy issues for the whole year. It also offers observers a window into the latest ideas and practices of Chinas development in various aspects, including the whole-process peoples democracy, high-quality development, Chinese modernization and the wisdom the country provides to global governance.

China’s Parliament wraps with a dominant Xi and new push for tech supremacy Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Experts believe Chinas new H-20 bomber could challenge the B-21 as Beijing seeks nuclear parity with Washington.