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Monthly Archives For July 2020
Trump says he ignored Fauci’s coronavirus guidance on masks and China travel ban
President Trump said he ignored the advice of the top medical expert in his administration as the White House works to contain the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story …)
Chinese Soldiers Wear Face Masks in Beijing, China
Chinese soldiers, also known as Peoples Armed Police (PAP), wear protective face masks as the march back to their barracks after changing guard in Beijing’s embassy district on Thursday, July 9, 2020. ( read original…
What Beijing Lost With Its Border Clash Blunder
Fighting with India in the Himalayas may cost China its shot at becoming the dominant tech power. ( read original story …)
‘Long way to go’ to commercial network slicing, says China expert
While China operators are running advanced network slicing trials, a senior researcher has warned the technology is a long way short of being commercially ready. Zhang Jing, a standards engineers at … ( read original…
China Tries to Muffle Those Living Abroad by Intimidating their Families
With such advanced technology, you still think we can’t trace messages … even though the social media platform is unavailable in China without a VPN to bypass the country’s firewall. Still, users … ( read…
China’s new yuan loans set to rise in June on policy support
and the finance ministry said on Wednesday that 59.5% of that quota has already been used up in the first half of this year. China has also started to issue 1 trillion yuan in special…
World’s First Collectible Crypto Coin Released in Lithuania
Lithuania, which is positioning itself as a financial-technology hub for start-ups, rolled out the world’s first crypto coin for collectors. ( read original story …)
TikTok Mulls Changes to Business to Distance Itself From China
Bytedance Ltd. said it’s evaluating changes to the corporate structure of its TikTok business as U.S. concerns grow over the parent company’s Chinese origins. ( read original story …)
China should meet with U.S. on arms control, State Department says
The U.S. State Department on Thursday said the United States welcomed China’s commitment to arms control negotiations and that “prudent next steps” should include face-to-face meetings between U.S. ( read original story …)
In echo of Mao era, China’s schools in book-cleansing drive
As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect, deepening Chinese President Xi Jinping’s … ( read original story …)
Pope scraps prepared remarks on China’s security law in Hong Kong, raising concerns: report
Pope Francis skipped any mention of Hong Kong during his weekly address Sunday, even though the issue was reportedly included in his prepared remarks. Francis omitted a paragraph on his “attention and … ( read…
HSBC may have to choose between East and West as China tightens grip on Hong Kong
HSBC has carved out a lucrative role in global banking over the past 155 years by straddling the line between East and West. Now, a political firestorm over the bank’s hometown of Hong Kong could…
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