Since 1974, a sort of mythology has grown up around how Malaysia’s current strong relations with China began to take shape in that year, when Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak became the first ASEAN leader to normalize relations with it.
China has always placed ASEAN squarely on the first page of its foreign cooperation agenda, regarding ASEAN as a priority in its foreign policy and a key region for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Good relations between China and the Malay peninsula, predating Malaya and Malaysia, are far more complex, however, and have their roots some 2,000 years. They’ve been evolving ever since.
Just when everyone thought China’s e-commerce market was being dominated by Alibaba and JD.com, a dark horse emerged from the shadows and blazed a trail into the trading spotlight amid a wave of criticism.
A trade deal between the European Union and the U.S. is said to be in the works, causing a temporary relaxation of tensions between the two.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) and China established official diplomatic relations in 1976, which is reaching its peak in 2018, and likely to continue to grow.
The fake vaccine incident of Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences Limited, China’s second-largest rabies vaccine manufacturer, has caused widespread public concern across China.
The future of China in financial technologies is already looming up on the horizon. President Xi Jinping remarked on its pathway at the 19th CPC National Congress, with the aim to make the country an innovation center for artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030.
This is a first in the history of China’s automobile industry and a breakthrough since diplomatic relations were established between China and South Africa.
Numerous influential local news media of the UAE and African countries followed closely and covered extensively Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit.
Why President Xi‘s speech was filled with trust and hope? What is the “Golden Decade”? What are the challenges? How can we reach there?
“China got Sri Lanka to cough up a port,” said the New York Times in a widely quoted article published on June 25, 2018.The article claimed, “Every time Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.