The tourism boom in China’s pariah province
Xinjiang – where China stands accused of committing human rights abuses against the Uyghur people – is experiencing a surge in visitor numbers thanks to a hit TV series
China
Beijing Letter: Stock market rally fizzles out as Chinese hope for effective fiscal measures
Stimulus package might need Communist Party U-turn on opposition to property market speculation
Almost half of honey in Irish shops likely sourced from countries not identified on labels, research finds
New findings note that cheaper, adulterated imports pose a threat to 4,000 domestic producers
China hits EU brandy imports with anti-dumping penalties
Trade retaliation comes after bloc voted to approve steep tariff increases on Chinese electric cars
Investors shrug off US election uncertainty despite trade war fears
One prominent Irish economist is ‘surprised’ markets are not pricing in uncertainty
China is tradable, but is it investable?
For China to become a portfolio investment, more of its economic growth must start accruing to equity investors
‘The Bean an Tí looked shocked to see a Chinese girl speaking Irish’
Eva Pau, commercial director of family business Asia Market, on being immersed in Irish culture from an early age
Pakistan: At least one killed, 10 injured in explosion near Karachi airport
Separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army claims explosion, saying it was targeting Chinese nationals in region
The Irish Times view on EU tariffs on Chinese EVs: efforts neeeded to avert trade wars
The EU tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles are expected to come into force at the beginning of November but a negotiated settlement remains possible
John Kerry: Countries that fail to transition to clean energy are going to suffer economically
The US climate envoy on anger in developing countries over climate inequality, his reputation for being too positive, and conflict in the Middle East
EU pushes ahead with tariffs on Chinese electric cars
Heavy tariffs to be put on electric cars imported from China into the European Union
Chongqing, one of the world’s biggest cities, offers window into Sino-America relations
Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese
Markets cheer as China gets serious on stimulus
Property sector a key focus in rapid fire of policy measures after almost two years of piecemeal attempts to breathe life back into economy
China will struggle to hit 5% growth target as economy stagnates
Country’s central bank and politburo have announced measures to boost confidence and promised further measures
Marking a global milestone: The UK exits coal power
‘Renewables will soon overtake coal as the single biggest source of global electricity’
China’s first sustainable lifestyle mall the latest move in dramatic green transition
In the HAI550 mall in Shanghai, most of the clothes are produced by small local brands using materials such as old plastic bottles and used bicycle tubes
Rules-based international order is a poor substitute for the vision of the UN’s founders
Worldview: The United Nations, marginalised in the competition between the US, China and Russia and their emerging blocs, needs a radical overhaul
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years: A timely warning
Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive colonisation of Earth for which he doubts there is a mass global solution
Brics and Global South directly shifting world order dominated so far by G7
Diplomats and analysts in New Delhi look to reworked multipolar, mutually equitable and sustainable global relations
‘Make me look young and thin,’ I told the barber. But that sort of line doesn’t work in Shanghai
Shanghai Letter: When I took my place at the end of the red banquette, the man next to me was staring
Three universities turned down a bust to a Chinese human rights activist before it went to Galway
Instead of spearheading China’s liberalisation, Western universities which benefit from Chinese money are increasingly vulnerable to pressure from its government
European Union ‘failed to pay attention’ to Global South for years
Europe struggling to navigate growing force of Brics countries on international stage
China conducts test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile
Move likely to raise international concerns about the country’s nuclear build-up
China unleashes stimulus in bid to lift growth
Central bank cuts benchmark rate and unveils support for property and stock markets to boost demand
A global pact to keep AI in check: Is that really so utopian?
Expert in international digital governance, Thorsten Jelinek, advocates an ethical approach that imagines AI as humanity’s moral partner
A new global order: Rising China and Russia rewrite the international rulebook
The era of the United States as unrivalled global leader is over. Small alliances of like-minded countries are growing in importance
Global South keen to secure pledge from UN summit to address debt and development
US and allies want to shuffle such discussions to the Bretton Woods institutions, where they enjoy a blocking minority
Unlikely interlocutors sit around the table at Beijing security conference
Many of the most interesting encounters at the forum were not in the main sessions or in seminar rooms but queuing for coffee during the breaks
T-shirt protest slogan could get man jailed for up to decade in Hong Kong
Chu Kai-pong faces long sentence under crackdown and application of National Security Law
Tensions rise in South China Sea between China and Philippines
Manila withdraws vessel from contested shoal as US warns mutual defense treaty could be triggered
Businessman held on money laundering charges connected to €9.7m ‘zombie’ iPhone fraud
Chengwen Guo (41) of Parnell Street, Dublin 1, appeared at Dublin District Court on Saturday
Chinese military diplomacy event hears Ukraine’s Zelenskiy and Xi could meet next month
Bilateral meeting is possible as Kyiv views countries from Global South as key to securing halt to war with Russia
PwC fined €56m and banned for six months in China
Big-four firm penalised in connection with audit of collapsed property developer Evergrande
‘I’m only suitable for being a worker’: life on the checkout of a Beijing supermarket
Many Chinese workplaces are organised in units, an echo of an earlier era of communism
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