New Caledonia holds a referendum on independence
MICHEL ROCARD, a former French prime minister, once described the peace deal he brokered in New Caledonia in 1988 as a “bet on intelligence”. A refere…
Sri Lanka’s president installs his arch-enemy as prime minister
FIRST TO GO was the navy honour guard, in crisp uniforms with brass buttons. Then the maintenance staff departed, followed by the cooks and gardeners …
India erects the biggest statue in the world—and it’s not Gandhi
At 182 metres, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is the world’s biggest statue. Inaugurated on October 31st, it depicts Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a leader of India’s independence movement. Patel, who orchestrated the annexation of self-go…
Think of China as a giant sub-prime lender in Latin America
SINCE ITS emperors first wrangled with distant barbarians, China has practised unsentimental diplomacy. Not much has changed, to go by its dealings wi…
China waters down its ban on the use of tiger and rhino parts
print-edition iconPrint edition | ChinaNov 1st 2018 | HONG KONG“IT’S GOOD news for my patients,” says Zhu Meng, a practitioner of traditional Chinese …
China’s public worries pointlessly about GM food
AMID AN ESCALATING trade war with America, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has tried to reassure a nervous public by insisting that his country can go it alone in its pursuit of tech supremacy. The Chinese people must “cast aside illusions and rely on ou…
A fashionable aesthetic confounds Chinese parents—and officials
print-edition iconPrint edition | ChinaOct 25th 2018 | BEIJINGNEW F4 ARE actors-turned-musicians with pebble-smooth chins and artful coifs (the “F” is…
150 Million USD in funding for China tech , from Investcorp
Investcorp, a Bahrain-listed asset manager, will invest in a Chinese state-backed fund with holdings in some of the mainland’s fastest-growing technology companies, joining a raft of global investors seeking to capitalise on the prospects for the sector in Asia.
The investment group has a…
Chinese-Israeli technological investment growth
While relations between China and the US continue to go downhill, relations between Israel and China are headed in the opposite direction. Just last week, China's Vice President Wang Qishan was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the Israel Innovation Center, together with Alibaba founder …