Laura Zhou

2 weeks ago | scmp.com | Shi Jiangtao |Laura Zhou |Dewey Sim

After China and the United States agreed to a temporary truce in the trade war during talks in Geneva last week, tensions have again flared – casting doubt on any lasting de-escalation. Soon after the agreement was reached to pause tariffs for 90 days, the US imposed a global ban on Chinese firm Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips over alleged export control violations and national security concerns.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Laura Zhou |Orange Wang

While the White House is touting last weekend’s agreement with China to pause tariff increases as a “historic win in trade”, observers say the deal validates Beijing’s strategy. Diplomatic observers said the US-China agreement to roll back tariffs on each other’s goods by 115 per cent represented success for Beijing’s defiant strategy against “economic bullying”, and also offered some early experience on how to deal with President Donald Trump 2.0 over the next four years.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Laura Zhou

A thaw in relations between China and India is expected to be tested after Pakistan said it used a Chinese-made jet fighter to bring down Indian military aircraft, observers say. While India and Pakistan have reached a ceasefire over a conflict in which they are both claiming victory, the role of Beijing is in the spotlight after Islamabad officials claimed Pakistan used a Chinese-made J-10C aircraft to launch air-to-air missiles against Indian fighter jets on Wednesday.

4 weeks ago | scmp.com | Laura Zhou

Chinese academics are calling for the “Western-centric” version of World War II to be rewritten by pushing back the start date nearly a decade and placing Chinese forces firmly on the front line against fascism. Instead of Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland marking the beginning of the global conflict, some academics at a second world war history seminar in Beijing on Tuesday said it should be Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria, which escalated into a full-scale war in China in 1937.

4 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Laura Zhou

President Xi Jinping has arrived in Moscow for a high-profile state visit underscoring efforts to strengthen ties with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin amid growing trade pressures from the US and scepticism from European allies. Upon landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo-2 airport on Wednesday afternoon local time, Xi expressed confidence that the trip would deepen bilateral cooperation between the two nations.