The C919 - a twin-engine, narrow-body aircraft seating up to 174 people - is similar in size to the Airbus 320.
The chaos on its stock markets, a fierce battle between the old and new guard in the Communist Party and the restive border provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang forebode tough times ahead for China, says Claude Arpi.
In a rare gesture, China's official media in Beijing on Tuesday extended its biggest coverage to an Indian political event projecting Narendra Modi's takeover as Prime Minister as a harbinger of "big boost" to China-India relations.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for undiminished vigilance on the prevention and control work of the COVID-19 as the situation in the Wuhan City and Hubei Province remains severe
'He spoke about 20 jawans in Ladakh, but he couldn't even name China.' 'He said the world had seen what had been achieved, even though we Indians don't know because Modi has himself said that nothing had happened and nobody had come,' points out Aakar Patel.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Chinese President Xi Jinping called for moving globalisation to a more open, inclusive, universal, balanced and win-win direction.
During an interaction at a conclave in New Delhi, he also said that the Indian Navy is seized of the docking of various PLA Navy ships at ports in Pakistan, and it is 'keeping a watch on it'.
A senior official of the Union water resources ministry said it was an unprecedented situation on the Chinese side where Tsangpo broke a 150-year record with swollen waters and hence China has shared the information with India.
'Clarifying that modernisation of national defence and armed forces should be completed by 2035, Xi Jinping asserted the goal is to make the People's Liberation Army a "world class force" that "can fight and win" by 2050,' points out former RAW officer Jayadeva Ranade.
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China is trying to improve frayed relations with neighbours to pre-empt efforts by the US to intervene, says strategic expert B Raman.
The onshore yuan trading band is tightly controlled.
This is the first time China-Pakistan began joint patrols in recent years though Chinese troops have been conducting patrols in the area since 2014.
After the Ladakh fiasco where Xi Jinping did not expect the Indian Army to resist his land-grabbing tactics, he has to save face before his colleagues in the Communist party.' To bring the threat of a mega-dam to the northern Indian border is a clever move, observes Claude Arpi.
'It is not possible for New Delhi to take sides between Beijing and Washington.'
Bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad, setting aside formalities to strike a friendly tone were highlighted by the state media on Thursday, with write ups and photos on front pages.
The South China Morning Post has iconic status in the region.
The use of firearms along the LAC marks a serious escalation in border tensions as the previous instance of shots being fired at the de-facto border was in 1975.
Chengdu Airlines said the ARJ21 has a lower cost per seat than similar models of Airbus and Boeing models.
The five tea brands were among 19 oolong products that were found not adhering to regulatory standards.
In an embarrassing disclosure for Pakistan, Chinese official media reported that the "spy" drone Pakistani army shot down along the Line of Control, claiming it belonged to Indian security forces, was made in China.
China's FDI during the first quarter was $43.8 billion, while FDI in the US fell by 60 per cent from a year earlier to $46.1 billion during the same period, leaving a gap of $2.3 billion.
China punishes 27 officials after deadly ultramarathon
In the ancient world there is a great deal of give and take and reciprocal learning. India was an integral and important constituent of such interchanges of goods and ideas.
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An article in China's Global Times warned Beijing that China needs to worry about the effect of industrial transfer to India on production chain
The People's Bank of China cut its daily reference rate for the currency by a record 1.9 per cent, the biggest loss since January 1994.
"We pay for a majority or the biggest portion of their money. They actually criticised and disagreed with my travel ban at the time I did it. They were wrong. They've been wrong about a lot of things. They had a lot of information early and they didn't want to -- they're very -- they seem to be very China centric," the US president charged during his news conference.
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Despite the language barrier, Beijing is a city where getting lost is not necessarily a bad idea
The wet market was where a variety of live animals were traded until it was shut down following fears that the coronavirus had jumped to humans either from bats or pangolins.
Chanting slogans of "Modi Modi" and India-US friendship, Indian Americans walked in a procession for over an hour towards the historic Lincoln Memorial where the participants busted into an impromptu dance.
The US, and may be many more countries, is facing a grave cyber risk from an army of Chinese hackers.
Guo Qinglan the 91-year-old widow of revered Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis, who saved hundreds of lives of Chinese soldiers during World War II, may be the oldest member of Chinese President Hu Jinato's entourage to India.
List of international sports events affected by the coronavirus that has killed over 900 people and infected more than 40,000 in China
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation has bought six new ships from China's National Machinery Import and Export Corporation in Beijing at an estimated cost of $ 171 million.
As a Chinese spacecraft was put on its path to attempt the country's first docking mission, a feat achieved by Soviet Union years back, questions were raised about its relevance and whether it was appropriate for China to spend heavily on space technology when "money is needed elsewhere".
China's actual use of foreign direct investment is expected to rise 11 per cent to about $100 billion this year and China's outbound investments on the international market are expected to exceed $50 billion, China's minister of Commerce Chen Deming has said.
People across the world woke up to an early-morning call to celebrate the second International Yoga Day on Tuesday with much enthusiasm.
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