China wants to turn the Royal Mint buildings, near Britain's financial centre, into its new super Embassy under controversial plans backed by two high-ranking Labour top benchers.

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While the gold space is obsessed over the gold streaming from London to New York due to the tariff threat, having no net effect on price, the bigger story is that the PBoC is stockpiling gold at a frenetic rate.

Starmer’s Government is re-making the age-old mistakes in China diplomacy all over again. Those who frame the debate as a choice between whether or not to engage Beijing are proposing a false dichotomy. It is not about whether to talk or trade with China, but how? On whose terms, with what criteria, on what conditions and with what objectives?

Direct gold exports from the U.K. to China - a proxy for PBoC purchases - remained impressively strong in November, at 50 tonnes. Click to read.

Man Utd's new consultant coach won't make the players significantly faster, but will improve their mechanics, efficiency and resilience

Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong rank among the world's top 10 innovation cities, alongside other cities from the United States, Britain and Japan, according to a recently released assessment report on sci-tech innovation.

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

A faxed request and phone calls for comment from the Chinese banking sector regulator, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), went unanswered due to the Lunar New Year holidays in China. PSBC also did not respond.

BEIJING -- Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong rank among the world's top 10 innovation cities, alongside other cities from the United States, Britain and Japan, according to a recently released assessment report on sci-tech innovation.

LSE IDEAS analyse China’s growing presence in Latin America concerning trade, diplomacy, and strategic influence

A warning to Britain on Beijing’s ‘Malign Influence’ in Indo-Pacific signals sea change, as Brussels takes a backseat to Asia.