Professor G.P.Deshpande talks about the "assertive" role of China in world affairs with D. Raghunandan, Newsclick Editor. 

Wen told the country's parliament that China's economy faced a clouded international outlook in 2010 and would stick to a steady policy course this year, shifting tack if needed to counter the lingering impact of the global credit crunch.

Dr. Andrew Fischer of the International Institute of Social Studies talks about the Chinese "Oversavings" debate, domestic wages and healthcare issues.

Dr. Andrew Fischer from Institute of Social Studies in an exclusive interview talks about Chinese resilience towards the global financial crisis, increasing inequalities and possible way forward.

China's indignant reaction to the announcement of U.S. plans to sell weapons to Taiwan appears to be in keeping with a new triumphalist attitude from Beijing that is worrying governments and analysts across the globe.

SHANGHAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - In the autumn of 1998, computer science engineer Li Yanhong developed Rankdex, an experimental search engine that ranked websites according to their relevance to each other.

The media has covered the Google story as one of an intrepid new age company fighting an authoritarian Chinese state in its quest for privacy data of Google users in China. What is left unsaid in this story is that the US has complete access to all Google privacy data

After last week's Google face-off with the Chinese government should western media companies be worried that they don't have a hope in the world's most populous country? It's quite simple, according to Siva Yam, the president of the US-China Chamber of Commerce, which principally represents the interests of American companies in China. "As long as you aren't involved in politics, the media or pornography, the government will leave you alone."

Yahoo knew it had been a target of sophisticated Chinese cyber attacks on U.S. firms before Google alerted the company to them, but remained silent while its bigger rival went public, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.

Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer browser was the weak link used by hackers to attack Google's systems in China.