The Epoch Times

SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR—While in the Indian Ocean heading toward the Strait of Malacca, the very large crude carrier (VLCC) Pacific Bravo went dark on June 5, shutting off the transponder that signals its position and direction to other ships, ship-tracking data…

MENGHAI, China—Yan Wenliu leans on the side of his cart as he prepares to leave his sugarcane field in Southwest China, bewildered by the formidable new pest that has ambushed his crops this year. “I don’t know what it is,”…

China’s falling savings rate coupled with increasing government directed investment rate threatens a balance of payments crisis that could crash currency and asset values. China became the “factory to the world” and built incredible infrastructure over the last three decades…

The International Republican Institute published a new report that blames the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for a campaign of malign influences that corrode democracy. The International Republican Institute (IRI) is the Washington D.C. think tank whose board, staff and consultants are…

The People’s Bank of China high-quality foreign exchange assets peaked in June 2014 and has fallen by a third as the bank sold high quality and bought lower quality assets. People’s Bank of China (PBoC) balance sheet was tiny in…

A $1.24 billion-valued agreement between a British city and a Chinese manufacturing firm has been canceled after three years of inaction. The broken deal occurs amid chilly diplomatic relations between London and Beijing. In recent weeks, London officials have expressed…

BEIJING—Profit growth at firms directly owned by China’s central government slowed to the low single digits in the second quarter, hit by a cooling economy and sputtering global trade.