Sports
Djokovic won Beijing for the seventh time
Novak Djokovic won the tournament in Beijing for the seventh time, with a performance of 34:0, which is the record for the number of consecutive victories in one tournament among tennis players
View from Tiananmen 2025.
From the Long March to the Great Parade
Mao shaped the army as a political school, and Xi Jinping turned it into a technological laboratory - but with the old message that the army must obey the party. It is a pillar of the regime, a guarantor of internal stability and the president's personal power. That is why the military pyramid is strictly centralized, and the top is regularly searched
Military parade in Beijing
What the largest military parade in Chinese history looked like
China is in the center of the world's attention because at nine o'clock Beijing time it held the largest military parade in its history, wanting to demonstrate its strength and show its own army as extremely advanced and capable.
President of Serbia
Vučić in China: What has happened so far in Beijing?
From a meeting with Vladimir Putin to the announcement of flying cars, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's visit to China may be more interesting than expected.
We in China
Chinese media group about the director of the Serbian Cultural Center in Beijing
Tatjana Soldat, director of the Cultural Center in Beijing, is one of the creators of the "steel friendship" between China and Serbia, according to the Chinese Media Group. The last news about the activities of the Serbian Center was from October last year
Red Sea
US-China talks fail to stop Houthi attacks
The Houthi armed militia, which enjoys the support of Iran, since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas on October 7 of last year, the Pentagon claims, has attacked more than 30 ships in the Red Sea.
The World
America is worried: China has exceeded its nuclear stockpile
Beijing's investment in its nuclear triad - at sea, on land and in the air - is a cause for concern in Washington. Have the two great powers entered a new phase of the Cold War?
Politics
Vučić: I met Putin, he is bursting with self-confidence
"I saw President Putin and we spoke briefly, very briefly, we did not have a bilateral meeting," said the Serbian president
Economy
Free trade with China: Where is the biggest danger and where is the profit
The free trade agreement with China could be signed in October, President Aleksandar Vučić announced
Beijing - Washington
The ice started
America and China must learn to live together, that is the way to avoid the third world war. This was warned by Henry Kissinger, a politician who turned one hundred years old, one of the main creators of the establishment of diplomatic relations between these two countries half a century ago.
Central Asia and the New Silk Road
Between a big brother and an even bigger brother
Economic reasons, no matter how significant, did not influence the formulation of China's policy towards Central Asia. In a turbulent world in which China represents the main challenge to the world's strongest economies, above all the United States of America, which perceives China as both the main challenge and its biggest competitor and opponent, Beijing attaches particular importance to strengthening its economic and political influence through strong cooperation with independent, prosperous and the friendly states of Central Asia, the countries of the new geopolitical phenomenon
China as an intermediary between Ukraine and Russia
The sun is far away
The Chinese are realists and do not believe that at this moment the Russians and Ukrainians will sit down at the negotiating table. But you should try - that's why they send their special emissary to the war zone. There he will be confronted with the real, not diplomatic, positions of Moscow and Kiev: with the escalation of airstrikes on Ukrainian cities, new missiles and drones.
The culture of memory
We were in Mao's China before Tito
On the occasion of the death of our author Nadja Ivanja Švab, we are republishing one of her numerous texts.
Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of China
Brilliant plans, strong winds, turbulent waters
The Chinese Congress continues its work. It will be interesting to see what will be the composition of the new Central Committee, Politburo and especially its Standing Committee of only seven members. They make the most important decisions. Major personnel changes are announced in the Central Committee and the Politburo, but the leading position is already secured. According to expectations, Xi Jinping will receive a new five-year term as head of the KP and the Central Military Commission
Analyze
China between Washington and Moscow: Only interests are eternal
Chinese respected authors not only advise that Beijing should not engage in any anti-Western alliance with Moscow and risk secondary sanctions, but that China should side with the majority of the world regarding the war in Ukraine for its own interests. Such texts are not published either by accident or without the blessing of the party and state leadership
Analyze
Sanctions to Russia: China does not play to the music of Washington
After the high-level meeting of the American and Chinese delegations in Rome, the message from Beijing is that Washington has no right to condition or threaten China with anything, nor to demand a commitment not to supply arms to Russia, or to cut economic ties with it. cooperation. China does not want to improve its relations with the US at the expense of relations with Russia
The war in Ukraine
The Chinese angle: Don't attack Putin personally
The Chinese public is divided regarding the events in Ukraine: some support Ukraine and condemn Vladimir Putin for aggression, while others sympathize with Moscow's policy and accuse the US of expanding its influence to the east. The party and state leaders have not yet decided what position they will take in the conflict between Russia and the West
Analyze
China between Russia and Ukraine: Waiting for developments
Chinese media reports that "the largest evacuation of Chinese in history" has begun and that around 2500 of its citizens, out of six thousand in Ukraine, have already been transferred to neighboring countries. The evacuation is being carried out with the help of the Ukrainian authorities, which was interpreted in Beijing as another example of good relations between the two countries. But the departure of the Chinese does not encourage hope for a calming of the situation. On the contrary
Analyze
China and the Ukraine crisis: Solve it peacefully among yourselves
Beijing's reaction to Russia's recognition of the breakaway people's republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in the east of Ukraine is restrained: in principle it supports the territorial integrity of every sovereign state, but at the same time it criticizes NATO's expansion to the east. In a conflict whose end is not in sight, China will take care of its own interests and not worsen trade relations with either the West or Russia
Climate changes
Globally warmed Winter Olympics: Only artificial snow in Beijing
On Friday, February 4, the 24th Winter Olympic Games will be opened with a solemn ceremony in Beijing. New research shows that the organization of winter sports competitions will become increasingly challenging due to global warming. This will be the first Olympics where only artificial snow will be used
News
Winter Olympics in Beijing: Games around the Games
Some countries, led by the USA, will diplomatically boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing due to the "situation of human rights" in China. President Biden signed the Xinjiang Import Ban Act as an economic sanction due to the "genocide against the Uyghurs" in that province. The game for supremacy in the world will continue with increased intensity in the new year
The World
China and the Pandemic: Violating Human Rights or Protecting Lives
At any sign of the coronavirus in China, drastic protocols are applied: entire cities are closed, a lockdown is imposed and the entire local population is tested. All this is monitored through smartphones with special health applications owned by a billion people. From the point of view of the West, it is a violation of human rights. The Chinese answer that the right to life is the most important right
News
US-China: Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics and China's Response
The Americans are diplomatically boycotting the Chinese Winter Olympics. Beijing replies that they were not even called and told Biden that at the Democracy Summit, to which he did not invite the Chinese, they should compare the numbers regarding the pandemic - 4.636 deaths from covid in China and 787.695 in the USA