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Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important Chinese festival which celebrates the turn of the traditional Chinese calendar. New Year’s traditions include to thoroughly clean the house in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and
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Chinese investment in a number of energy and infrastructure projects under its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has resulted in the flow of billions of dollars and thousands of Chinese workers into South & Central Asia, the Middle-East, and
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Relations between the EU and China have expanded and deepened amidst important changes in the EU and in China. Today, building on a broad-based framework of bilateral relations, engagements run through over sixty substantive and sectoral dialogues. The EU-China 2020
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YCW Shanghai takes a deep dive into the fault lines of the India-China relationship with a panel of experts from academia and business. This moderated discussion will centre around framing a new model of engagement with a focus on the
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As the world’s second largest film market, China’s film industry has grown rapidly in changing times. Shaped by broadening demand for entertainment and digital innovations, the movie scene is flourishing with the state, private and foreign investors increasingly competing and