Global Impact is a weekly curated newsletter featuring a news topic originating in China with a significant macro impact for our newsreaders around the world. Sign up now! The re-election of Donald Trump as US president earlier this month brought with it fresh challenges and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, where several countries have also … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held bilateral meetings with the presidents of Uzbekistan and the UAE on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan. Modi arrived in the heritage city of Kazan on Tuesday for the 16th BRICS Summit. In a post on X, Modi said he had “a wonderful meeting” with Uzbekistan … Read more
A state think tank has outlined the president’s vision for sport in China, saying it is driving a push for fair competition and a more “just and reasonable” global sports order with a greater voice for developing nations. In its report on Xi Jinping Thought on sport, the Xinhua Institute – under official news agency … Read more
By 8.50am, the property manager in Tang’s residential area had called her with a warning that the water level was rising quickly. Tang rushed out to discover the water was already up to her knees. She decided to wade through the streets to salvage what she could at her shop. By the time she arrived, … Read more
Yet there are also similarities between the past and present. Some observers, such as historian Niall Ferguson, have argued that the present era is one of Cold War II. The much-heralded post-Cold War ethos of win-win globalisation and free trade appears to have given way to a rude awakening that intense strategic rivalries between great … Read more
Mao’s theory guided China to leverage global political mobility and manoeuvrability by aligning itself strategically with the political struggle of the third world nations. Faced with the threat of exclusion from a US-led world economy, China had to seek alternative power sources for legitimacy and survival. Perceiving itself as the leader of third-world revolutionary movements, … Read more
