The US and China are in the midst of an escalating war over trade that … The detention of the two Canadians came shortly after Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver…
Monthly Archives For June 2019
China decades behind achieving economy goal
This shift is challenging a banking industry that hasn’t had the assessment of credit risk at the core of its business. Looking more broadly, the allocation of credit is just one part of a triumvirate…
VW Advances Truck Unit IPO Despite Trade Woes, Shaky Markets
The Stoxx 600 European index is up about 9% this year, even after suffering a 5.7% decline in May as tension escalated between the U.S. and China. The automotive subsector is up 4.6%. Fundraising from…
This cartoonist has been skewering China for years from behind a mask. Now he’s ready to face Beijing
VANCOUVER—The rogue cartoonist known only as Badiucao didn’t learn about the Tiananmen Massacre in school, from family or even on the internet. It was a pirated romance movie that set him on a path to…
Rare earth company Neo flies under the radar amid U.S.-China tensions
As fears take hold that China may restrict the flow of rare earths metals to the U.S., at least one Canadian company that uses the critical minerals may see a big upside. Toronto-based Neo ……
China manufacturing data suggests some damage from trade war
Most of Trump’s ire over trade has been directed at China, given its lion-sized importance to global manufacturing and its growing technological prowess. But last week the president heaped more … ( read original story…
Choppers herald urban air mobility in Shenzhen
[Photo/Xinhua] Pressing a button to call a helicopter to a rooftop, once the stuff of sci-fi stories, could soon be a reality in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen. An urban air mobility or UAM ……
China says Mike Pompeo will end up on ‘the ash heap of history’ for marking 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, which Beijing is desperate to ignore
Beijing attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, a bloody event which saw the Chinese army clear out a pro-democracy protest … ( read original…
China issues U.S. travel alert warning of official harassment
BEIJING — China issued a travel warning for the U.S. on Tuesday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment by U.S. law … ( read…
U.S. firms fret as China’s FedEx probe, planned hit-list heightens trade frictions
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The sudden deterioration in trade talks between the United States and China last month has ratcheted up concerns among U.S. firms that the dispute could go beyond tariffs and … ( read…
China Unicom Yunnan to build access network with Hengtong, Akin, Ichinae
FREE WEBINAR – Insights on the latest developments on international video markets, assessing the impact on both the OTT services segment and the traditional pay-TV market going from B2B to B2C. June … ( read…
Beijing, Berlin and the two 1989s
The 30th anniversary of that bloody event falls this week. Watching from the west at the time, the dramatic events in Berlin seemed more globally significant than what had happened in Beijing five … (…
China warns its companies on U.S. travel, rebuffs trade criticism
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China warned its companies operating in the United States on Tuesday they could face harassment from U.S. law enforcement agencies, as it also rebuffed U.S … ( read original story …)
