Pakistan’s Press Information Bureau on Wednesday released a readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump. The readout is unusual in that it focuses almost entirely on Trump’s contributions to the conversation, and reproduces them in a voice that is unmistakably his. The readout is reproduced in full below: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA Donald Trump and felicitated him on his…
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China has been building nuclear facilities at a rapid pace, and pressure has been mounting in the country to create a specific nuclear safety law. Experts say that apart from technical safety, transparency and participation are equally important in making the public feel safer. China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (CNNSA) in October made public 16 safety failures that occurred in China’s nuclear plants in 2016, all involving mistakes made by staff members. Eight nuclear plants…
China’s measures to cut industrial production overcapacity slowed significantly in the third quarter of the year as firms boosted output to meet increased demand for goods and raw materials, according to survey released by the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The quarterly survey, based on a sample of about 2,000 industrial firms with annual sales revenue of five million yuan (HK$5.5 million), found that more than half of China’s industries and provinces reported overcapacity,…
HONG KONG — Three prominent Chinese rights activists appear to have been detained in recent weeks by the police, part of a continuing crackdown on groups operating outside the umbrella of the state, advocacy groups say. The men, Jiang Tianyong, Huang Qi and Liu Feiyue, disappeared within days of each other in November, each in a different province. The police have charged only Mr. Liu with an offense. Rights groups say he was detained…
The author is director of Institute for the Southern and Central Asian Studies at the Shanghai Municipal Center for International Studies. China and India are the world’s two largest manufacturers of bulk drugs, a key raw material for producing pharmaceutical drugs. Currently the two countries cooperate and compete in the field. Now with changes in the supply pattern of bulk drugs around the world, companies in the US and Europe have started competing with the…