A team of experts with the World Health Organization on Thursday completed their two-week quarantine in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where they’re to investigate the origins of the coronavirus … ( read original…
Monthly Archives For January 2021
U.K. Offers Help to EU, WHO to Start China Visits: Virus Update
The U.K. signaled it may provide assistance to the European Union as the bloc weighs options to safeguard Covid-19 vaccine supplies amid a severe disruption from AstraZeneca Plc. ( read original story …)
China Should Let Covid-19 Investigators Do Their Work
This week, nearly a year after the World Health Organization first declared Covid-19 a public-health emergency, a team of international researchers dispatched to China will emerge from quarantine to … ( read original story …)
Beijing’s Risky Assault on China’s Most Famous Billionaire
Jack Ma’s experience may have a chilling effect on innovation if Chinese entrepreneurs come to believe a political squeeze is the price of commercial success, … ( read original story …)
Top US diplomat backs Philippines in dispute with Beijing over South China Sea maritime claims
The United States rejects China’s internationally disputed maritime claims in the South China Sea and will support Southeast Asian nations facing pressure from Beijing, Antony Blinken, the new … ( read original story …)
EXPLAINER: How experts will hunt for COVID origins in China
After a two-week quarantine, the real work can begin. Maybe. A World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since … ( read original story …)
What bubble? HK retail investors seek $50 bln in loans for Chinese online video IPO
Hong Kong’s mom-and-pop investors have amassed over $50 billion in margin financing to buy shares in the initial public offering of China’s Kuaishou Technology, defying concerns about a pullback in … ( read original story…
To Avoid an Outbreak, China Cancels Lunar New Year for Millions of Migrants
China has added restrictions, offered incentives and appealed to a sense of filial and national responsibility, in an effort to prevent about 300 million migrant workers from going home for the … ( read original…
Antony Blinken Says U.S. Will Defend the Philippines From Attacks in South China Sea
The call between Blinken and his counterpart in Manila comes in the wake of the Philippines’ filing of a diplomatic complaint against a new Chinese coast guard law. ( read original story …)
State Department says Biden to ensure U.S. technology does not support China’s ‘malign activities’
President Joe Biden is committed to making sure that Chinese companies cannot misuse and misappropriate American data and will ensure that U.S. technology does not end up supporting China’s “malign … ( read original story…
Aurora Mobile Partners with an Iconic German Luxury Vehicle Brand to Promote the Development of …
Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ: JG) (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading mobile developer service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with an … ( read original story…
Coronavirus: WHO investigation team members leave hotel quarantine in China
They’ve spent the first two weeks of their mission looking into origins of Covid-19 in video meetings with Chinese scientists. Several posted photos on Twitter celebrating the end of the isolation … ( read original…
China warns that Taiwan independence ‘means war’
China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that recent military activities in the Taiwan Strait were a response to interference by foreign forces and provocations by forces supporting Taiwan’s … ( read original story …)
