Indias oil demand growth is expected to exceed Chinas for the first time in 2024, and continue in 2025. According to Kang Wu, global head of macro and oil demand research at SPGCI, Indias oil demand in the current year grew by 180,000 barrels per day, surpassing Chinas growth at 148,000 bpd. Indias oil demand is expected to increase by 3.2% Y/Y in 2025 compared to a 1.7% clip by Chi...

China-linked buyers accounted for 203 of 371 land purchases with national security significance in Japan in FY 2023.

For a few years now, forecasters and market analysts have been expecting India to become the largest oil demand driver in the world in the medium and long term, surpassing Chinas growth rates. This has now happened as early as this year, amid growing demand for fuel transportation in India and slowing gasoline and diesel demand in China due to the advance of electric vehicles and LNG-fueled tru...

For those who seemingly have everything, what might the leaders of the United States, Russia and China want for Christmas?

For the first time ever, Chinas electric vehicle sales are set to outpace traditional car sales on an annual basis in 2025, years in advance of the Chinese authorities targets and years ahead of analyst projections, according to the latest industry forecasts provided to the Financial Times by research companies and investment banks. Chinas combined EV and plug-in hybrid sales are expected...

Local Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to encourage women to consider having more children, including through controversial cold-calling campaigns.

China has approved the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam in Tibet, which would be the worlds largest hydropower plant with triple the capacity of the current biggest operational project, the Three Gorges Dam, which is also in China. The Chinese government has now approved the construction of the new project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, the longest river in Tibet and...

China's gloomy job markethas been one of the key reasons stopping people from spending more.

Arctic LNG 2 continues its struggles to sell gas from Russias newest but heavily sanctioned LNG export project. In one of the latest pieces of anecdotal evidence, a sanctioned LNG carrier, which had loaded liquefied natural gas in the Artic in August, traveled for four months around north Europe, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean, along Chinas east coast and north to Russia...

Despite the arrival of new competitors and growing political tensions between the US and China, the ecommerce juggernaut Temu proved in 2024 its here to stay.

Crude oil prices ticked higher today as traders turned optimistic following the latest news about Chinese government stimulus for consumer spending. Brent crude was trading at $73.80 per barrel at the time of writing, and West Texas Intermediate was changing hands for $70.32 per barrel, both up from opening in Asia, after the Chinese finance ministry announced a new package of funds to go into hig...

Over the past week, Trump has criticized Panama over increasing fees, warning that if it doesn't change, he will demand the canal's return to the U.S.

China abruptly ousted two military lawmakers from its national parliament without explanation, as a purge of key personnel in the upper echelons of the nations defense establishment shows no sign […]

If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his threat of imposing new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, it could have major repercussions for the U.S. toy industry. Kelly O'Grady explains.

I feel we were able to build a personal relationship that would lead to the future, Japan's foreign minister told reporters in the Chinese capital.

President-elect Donald Trump issued a Christmas message to the "wonderful soldiers of China" who are "illegally, operating the Panama Canal" and to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.The post Trump Issues Christmas Message to &...

President-elect Donald Trump wished almost everyone a Merry Christmas on Wednesday, even the Radical Left Lunatics" and the wonderful soldiers of China.

President-elect Donald Trump released a special message on Christmas that revealed some of the top items on his agenda once he takes office in just a little over three weeks. “Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people ...