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China's top diplomat Wang Yi will attend a series of ASEAN meetings in Jakarta from Thursday to Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday, as China reiterates its support for ASEAN unity and emphasizes its commitment to properly handling sensitive issues with r...

Global Times Opinion

With another setback for its high-end manufacturing, India's manufacturing development needs not just the government's ambition, but also the industrial planning that suits its own conditions.

Apple supplier Foxconn, the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer, ann...

Global Times Opinion

The NATO summit is being held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from Tuesday to Thursday. The meeting focuses on plans to "counter the threat" from Russia, including discussions on NATO's expansion and Ukraine's future membership to NATO. Meanwhile, NATO's strategic impulse to meddle in...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Europe will ensure the highest growth in demand for Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG), despite the sanctions background, Belgium, Spain and Greece will significantly increase its imports, follows from a comment by Ivan Timonin, a consultant at Vygon Consulting.

"Despite the s...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In the first half of this year, the growth rate of the economy of Kazakhstan amounted to 5%, the head of the Ministry of National Economy Alibek Kuantirov said at a government meeting. According to Kuantirov, growth in the real sector amounted to 4.8%, and in the service sector -...

By Rhod Mackenzie

A more accurate and correct methodologically now is to link the price of Russian export Urals oil to the Dubai Crude grade, which is the main benchmark for oil supplies to Asian countries, and not to the North Sea Brent grade. This opinion was expressed to journalists by the pres...