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BEIJING: China stressed the need for more proactive and effective economic policies, and better policy coordination, the Communist Party's top decision-making body the Politburo said, according to state news agency Xinhua on Friday (Feb 27). The Politburo called for continuing a more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately accommodative monetary policy, Xinhua said. Efforts to stabilise employment, enterprises and markets, as well as building a robust domestic market, were also discussed. The US$19 trillion Chinese economy grew 5 per cent in 2025 , according to official data, meeting the government's target and defying a second Trump White House intent on slowing it down, by stepping up shipments elsewhere to offset weak domestic consumption . But economists warn that the strategy will be increasingly hard to sustain. While China will deepen reforms in key areas of the economy, it also urged expanding new growth drivers and stepping up high levels of self-reliance in scie...

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WASHINGTON - The US has arrested and charged a former US Air Force fighter jet pilot with allegedly training China's military, highlighting Beijing's persistent efforts to modernize its armed forces by siphoning off US secrets. Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., a former F-35 Lightning II instructor pilot who had commanded sensitive units with responsibility for nuclear weapons delivery systems, was arrested on Wednesday (Feb 25) in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and charged with "providing and conspiring to provide" defence services to Chinese military pilots, the Justice Department said. Beginning around August 2023, Brown began negotiating the terms of his contract to train China's People's Liberation Army Air Force pilots with Su Bin, a Chinese national who was sentenced to four years in a US prison in 2016 for conspiring to hack into the computer networks of Boeing and other major US defence contractors. Brown, 65, travelled to China in December 2023, remaining there ...

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ADCs are a newer class of cancer drugs designed to target tumours more precisely. They have three main parts: A monoclonal antibody that targets a specific protein on the surface of cancer cells. Chemotherapy drug payloads. Linker molecules that connect the two. The linker is engineered to break apart once the ADC enters a cancer cell, releasing its toxic payload. This helps limit damage to healthy cells. Zhu believes the US still leads China in identifying the right biological targets, but argues that China is especially strong in the technical and chemical aspects of developing these drugs. "(It's about) what kind of linker you choose, what kind of payload you design. You need medicinal chemists to design it, and then you have to engineer it," he said. "On this side, China's capability is actually very strong – and getti ng stronger. China has excellent medicinal chemists and excellent engineers, and we can also scale up well." He added that Chinese t...

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China's state-backed Global Times newspaper, citing an unnamed Chinese military source, reported late on Saturday that "the Chinese People's Liberation Army carried out full-process tracking, monitoring, and alert operations throughout the transit." US warships traverse the strait every few months, enraging Beijing, and some US allies, such as France, Australia, Britain and Canada, have also made occasional transits. China has ramped up its military presence around Taiwan and staged its latest war games around the island in late December. Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims, saying only the island's people can decide their future.

China urged the United States on Monday to cancel unilateral tariffs announced by President Donald Trump after the US Supreme Court struck down many of his measures. The court ruled six to three on Friday that Trump does not have the authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law he has relied on to impose sudden levies on individual countries, upending global trade. Trump reacted furiously, announcing first a new 10 percent global duty on imports under a different legal authority, before raising it to 15 percent on Saturday. China's commerce ministry said on Monday it was conducting a "comprehensive assessment" of the ruling's impact, and called on Washington to lift the tariffs. "China urges the United States to cancel its unilateral tariff measures on its trading partners," the ministry said in a statement. "There are no winners in a trade war and that protectionism leads nowhere." The new 15 percent global duties are due to kick in on Tuesd...

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