Chinese enterprises hoping to use Southeast Asia as a back door into the US market will have to reassess their investment strategies, a former central bank adviser warned, saying US president-elect Donald Trump “will certainly escalate tariffs” on shipments originating there.
Li Daokui, a professor of economics…

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Hanoi last week underpinned Vietnam’s growing global profile, with major powers courting the Southeast Asian country.
Vietnam recently upgraded its ties with the United States and Japan to “strategic comprehensive partnerships”. During Xi’s trip, it endorsed China’s vision of a community with …

China’s imports of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment totalled US$4.3 billion in October, up from US$2.4 billion in the same period last year
Chip imports from January to November were down 12.1 per cent year on year, but improved from the 13.1 per cent drop in the first …

China is exploring new avenues to bypass restrictions on lithography machines, which are used in the production of microchips. Using particle accelerators to create a novel laser source, researchers are laying the foundation for the future of semiconductor fabrication.
Plans are now under way to construct a particle accelerator with a circumference between …

Analysts say changes had been in the pipeline for a long time, but Beijing was spurred to act because of concerns about its increasing investments abroad
The move aligns the country with international norms, but some concerns have been raised about protections for lower-ranked officials.
China’s recent decision to allow legal action …

Beijing should brace for more upheaval in US ties over Taiwan and the origins of Covid-19, as Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy launches his bid to be speaker of the House of Representatives, Chinese analysts believe.
While results from Tuesday’s US midterm elections are still coming in, Republicans are expected to win a majority in the House, and McCarthy has officially sought his party’s …

When the Taliban retook control of Kabul a year ago following the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Yu Minghui was one of the very few Chinese businessmen who decided to stay put.
Since then, Yu has had to embrace changes enforced by the country’s new rulers, deal with officials who have replaced those in the previous US-backed government, and renegotiate projects that have been in the works for years …