China is rapidly scaling up its deep-sea research and seabed mapping activities across some of the world’s most strategically sensitive waters, prompting growing concern among defense analysts that these ostensibly scientific missions may underpin future undersea warfare capabilities.

China’s Vast Ocean Floor Surveillance and Mining Push Sparks Alarm Over Hidden Military Ambitions Beneath Global Waters

China is rapidly scaling up its deep-sea research and seabed mapping activities across some of the world’s most strategically sensitive waters, prompting growing concern among defense analysts that these ostensibly scientific missions may underpin future undersea warfare capabilities. Recent reporting...
Cyberspace Administration of China

China’s Blockchain Strategy: How Beijing Is Building State-Controlled Digital Trust Infrastructure for Global Trade and Data

For much of the past decade, discussions about blockchain in Western technology circles have been dominated by cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (DeFi) experiments, and volatile token markets. The technology’s public image has been shaped largely by projects like Bitcoin and platforms...
Chinese fishing boats

China’s Shadow Fishing Fleet Emerges Covert Naval Force, Raising Blockade Fears Across Indo-Pacific

China is rapidly expanding its reach across the Indo-Pacific, deploying a shadow fleet of nominally civilian fishing vessels as a covert extension of the People’s Liberation Army Navy — the world’s largest naval force by hull count. By weaponizing hundreds...
Chinese military

China’s Sweeping Dual-Use Export Ban Strikes at Heart of Japan’s Defense Industry Across Land, Sea, Air and Space

China has sharply escalated its retaliation against Japan’s accelerating military expansion under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, imposing sweeping export bans and blacklisting some of the country’s most critical defense and technology institutions in a move that deepens one of the...
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IMF Urges China to Shift From Export-Led Growth to Consumption-Driven Model Amid Global Trade Imbalances

As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delivers its latest assessment of China’s economy, the world’s most prominent financial watchdog is grappling with a growing legitimacy crisis. Once viewed as the “lender of last resort” capable of stabilizing economies during global...
Hainan Free Trade Port, China

China’s Hainan Free Trade Port Signals New Era of Selective Globalization Amid Rising Geopolitical Fragmentation

The dominant assumption in international political economy was clear: the more open an economy, the stronger its growth prospects. Frictionless ports, low tariffs, deregulated investment regimes and unrestricted capital flows were treated as the essential ingredients of economic advancement. Governments...
China Fishing Boats

China Curbs Overfishing at Home While Expanding State-Backed Fishing Fleet Abroad to Assert Maritime Power

For decades, China’s rise as a maritime power has been measured not only in warships launched or ports financed under the Belt and Road Initiative, but also in the vast armada of fishing vessels that now traverse nearly every ocean...
China Green Energy

China Scales Clean-Tech Dominance and US Leans on Fossil Strength, World Faces Defining Industrial Realignment

The world’s two largest economies are placing starkly different bets on how to power the future — and those bets are rapidly reshaping the industrial map. On one side stands China, racing to dominate clean-energy manufacturing while still leaning heavily...
APEC China 2026

China to Host First APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting in February, Marking Start of ‘APEC China Year’ Ahead of November Leaders’ Summit

China will host the first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Officials’ Meeting and related events from February 1 to 10, marking the opening of the APEC “China Year” as the country prepares to convene the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting...
Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei Fly Home to China, Marking Japan’s First Panda-Free Period in Decades Amid a Freeze in Sino-Japanese Relations

Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei Fly Home to China, Marking Japan’s First Panda-Free Period in Decades Amid a Freeze in Sino-Japanese Relations

Giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei arrived in Sichuan province on Wednesday (Jan 28), marking the first time Japan has been without pandas since 1972, the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda announced on social media....
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