President Trump was confronted Thursday by his longtime friend Geraldo Rivera about using the term “China Virus” to refer to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For August 2020
Beijing flexes its military muscle in off-shore exercises near Taiwan
Beijing has conducted maritime exercises in waters between mainland China and Taiwan as part of manoeuvres that would “play a vital role in potential military operations on the island of Taiwan”. ( read original story…
China Says U.S. Acts ‘Dirty’ After It Tries to ‘Clean’ Networks from Communist Party
China has ridiculed a new U.S. initiative to attempt to decouple its telecommunications network from apparatuses deemed too close to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, calling the move hypocritical … ( read original story …)
New China-Pakistan Axis Undermines U.S. in Afghanistan, Strengthens Uighur Persecution
A previously unreported intelligence arrangement between Beijing and Islamabad reveals increasingly potent influence in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region. ( read original story …)
Microsoft’s Roots in China Have Positioned It to Buy TikTok
Alumni of the software giant’s Beijing research lab are now executives at Alibaba, Tencent, SenseTime—and TikTok parent ByteDance. ( read original story …)
China allows first commercial bank to go bankrupt in almost 20 years
China’s central bank has announced the first bankruptcy of a commercial bank in nearly two decades, authorising the liquidation of regional lender Baoshang Bank, a year after it seized control of the … ( read…
Ex-Malaysian finance minister arrested on graft charges over China-linked tunnel project
finance minister Lim Guan Eng has been arrested following corruption investigations into a China-linked US$1.5 billion undersea tunnel project, the government said on Thursday. government ousted in … ( read original story …)
Coronavirus: Canada zoo struggles to return pandas to China
Two giant pandas are stranded in Canada with a looming bamboo shortage despite efforts to return them to China. The Calgary Zoo says it has not yet been able to secure international travel permits to…
Hollywood censors films to appease China, report suggests
Hollywood bosses have been censoring films to placate the film market in China, a report has suggested. The lengthy report says US film companies want to avoid losing access to China’s lucrative box … (…
U.S. Tensions With Beijing Are High, But Trump Still Has Fans in China
Beneath expressions of anger at Washington, two camps at opposite ends of China’s political spectrum like Trump’s confrontational approach—for different reasons. ( read original story …)
AstraZenica, bio firm agree to produce COVID-19 vaccine for China
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said Thursday it has an agreement with a Chinese company to produce 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, when completed, in China by the end of this year. ( read original…
Foreign buying of American real estate plunged before the pandemic — will COVID-19 push it even lower?
Foreign buyers are purchasing fewer and fewer American homes. And the coronavirus pandemic could cause a serious pullback in new investment in U.S. residential real estate from international buyers. ( read original story …)
Google deletes 2,600 YouTube accounts linked to China
Google has taken down about 2,600 YouTube channels it says were connected with a “coordinated influence operation” from China. ( read original story …)
