Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

People are proud that genuine innovation is happening in China … and by a founder who’s never received an overseas education,” says an analyst.

Mr Wang said he hoped Mr Rubio would play a constructive role for the good of the people of both countries. Read more at straitstimes.com.

That would "pave the way for China's power sector to achieve peak emissions by 2025", according to Greenpeace East Asia Beijing-based project leader Gao Yuhe. Sign up here. Reporting by Farah ...

For years, many assumed that the US would dominate in the field of artificial intelligence. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Several new Defence Department officials have disputed contention that supporting Ukraine’s defence could deter Beijing’s plans for Taiwan.

BEIJING – China pledged to accept the return of undocumented Chinese citizens in the US, after US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Colombia with tariffs of up to 50 per cent for refusing to take back deported migrants.

The figures follow trends worldwide, but especially in East Asia, where Japan, South Korea and other nations have seen their birth rates plummet.