It also criticized South Africa's ties with Russia, China and Iran and accused it of supporting Palestinian militant group ...

The executive order also said South Africa had taken an anti-American stance — even “led the charge” — on many issues, accusing it of supporting Hamas, Russia and Iran, and being too close to China's ...

Just days into the Year of the Snake, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a 10% additional tariff ...

Investors returning to mainland China's markets on Wednesday after an eight-day Lunar New Year holiday have plenty to chew on - from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek taking ...

In the past few decades, however, the green snake has risen from obscurity and captured China’s imagination. The defining work in this shift was the novel “Green Snake,” written by the Hong Kong ...

It is the biggest festival of the year in China, signaling the start of spring, and this is the year of the wood snake . According to Chinese astrology, the characteristics of the snake ...

As China enters the Year of the Snake, the country is welcoming leaders from four Asian states, including Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Brunei and Thailand, reflecting China's efforts to advance its ...

It is the biggest festival of the year in China, signalling the start of spring, and this is the year of the wood snake. According to Chinese astrology, the characteristics of the snake ...

As the Year of the Snake has begun in China, the nation's economy faces huge domestic and foreign challenges. Can introspection and resilience, which the Chinese associate with snakes, help ...

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snake farming for medical purposes continues in some parts of China. In 2022, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region established a medicinal snake professional committee to regulate the ...

In all likelihood, China's almost $1 trillion (€960 billion) trade surplus with the world in 2024 won't go down well with Donald Trump, who has vowed to curb China's trade surplus with the US.