This Tap & Go service enables inbound travelers to easily access more than 10,000 gates across around 490 urban rail transit stations in Beijing without needing cash or a local transport card.

Beijing has become the first city on the Chinese mainland supporting contactless fare payments in rail transit for foreign MasterCard and Visa card ...

Supported by the PBC, the Beijing government, and the city’s urban rail transit system, Mastercard has become the first international payment brand in Chinese mainland to complete system integration a ...

and pay automatically according to the same billing rules as the local residents. Beijing has upgraded more than 20,000 sets of facilities at subway stations of its rail transit system to ...

Sri Lankans go to the polls this weekend for the country’s first election since defaulting on piles of sovereign debt in 2022 ...

In 2020, Americans learned that Fang Fang, a suspected Chinese spy, had been building relationships with up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay ... competition between China and the United States, ...

Washington has talked a big game about breaking China’s grip on the world’s mineral supplies. And both presidents Trump and Biden have labeled America’s mineral vulnerability—along with China’s ...