Analysts say China needs to mobilise venture capital and resources, while reducing reliance on foreign venture capital, having fallen further behind the US in terms of the number of start-ups valued at more than US$1 billion.

President Xi Jinping’s call to Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi comes as the pair meet in Beijing, with the Chinese leader also pledging greater cooperation on trade and investment, global affairs and new energy.

Ma will meet US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell and representatives of ‘various sectors’ during four-day trip, foreign ministry says.

In Beijing, Xi and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo announce elevation of bilateral ties to comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation.

Main causes for growing Sino-Russian relationship are Moscow’s decision to invade Ukraine and ‘China’s choice to enable Putin’s war’, official adds.

President urges the record batch of upcoming graduates to seek employment in grass-root organisations, rural areas and small businesses, as greater emphasis is placed on supporting the private sector.

During a meeting with high-profile business leaders and economists, President Xi Jinping said too much investment into new energy would stifle innovation and deprive other sectors of needed resources.

During a meeting of China’s Politburo, plans are reviewed for ensuring accountability and propriety among officials carrying out the country’s campaign against financial risk.

Leaders of Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia and UAE to visit Beijing for meetings with Xi and ministerial conference of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum

Hua Chunying, who has been a foreign ministry spokeswoman since 2012, is the youngest of the five vice-foreign ministers and the only woman.

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at the state of play of the “no limits” partnership between China and Russia.

Source says Victor Fung among nine business chiefs and experts who met Chinese President Xi Jinping to share suggestions before key Communist Party meeting.

Zelensky appealed to the two presidents to show their ‘leadership in advancing the peace – the real peace and not just a pause between the strikes’.

The meeting, to be held during the Shangri-La Dialogue next week, will be the first between Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Admiral Dong Jun since they spoke on the phone in April.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with business leaders, overseas investors and economists on Thursday, with analysts pointing to the timing of the meeting ahead of the key third plenum.

The People’s Bank of China keeps a running tab of big policy moves, and it shows that trillions of yuan worth of support measures have been rolled out since 2021.

All-weather, all-round, strategic and future-oriented are among descriptors that show up the subtle differences in China’s relationships.

Defence chief Grant Shapps tells military conference US and British intelligence have proof ‘Russia and China are collaborating on combat equipment for use in Ukraine’.

Officials ponder what countermeasures await European resistance against ‘market-distorting’ Chinese subsidies on electric vehicles.

America’s top diplomat describes Beijing as seeking ‘better relations with Europe’ while fuelling its ‘greatest security threat’ since the Cold War.

Country’s top internet regulator promises a ‘secure and reliable’ system that is not open-sourced.

Beijing and Moscow should ‘maintain security and stability in the common Chinese-Russian neighbourhood’, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says

The tsunami of new-energy manufacturing flooding the industry is not the first time a wave of Chinese goods has forced institutional upheavals and left foreign firms with little room to compete.