On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown. But the severe measures also came at a huge personal cost to residents, and despite the apparent return to…
Monthly Archives For January 2021
Five Takeaways From the Developing Space War Between China and the U.S.
The Biden administration is inheriting the menace of Chinese antisatellite arms as well as an innovative way of trying to defuse the escalating threat. ( read original story …)
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and China
The Biden administration faces not only waves of Chinese antisatellite weapons but a history of jumbled responses to the intensifying threat. ( read original story …)
Hong Kong stocks roar into 2021 on surge of investment from China
One of the world’s biggest laggards in major global stock indexes in 2020 is the best performer so far this year, thanks to a deluge of Chinese money. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index has touched…
Hong Kong stocks look for earnings boost, mainland China tonic to overcome fatigue after world-beating run
Hong Kong markets suffered their biggest slide in eight weeks on Friday, the first sign of fatigue during the best start to a year since 1985. Investors, though, will not run out of reasons to…
Nokia, China Mobile trial AI-powered radio access on live 5G network
The companies completed an AI-based real-time user equipment (UE) traffic bandwidth forecast trial in Shanghai … ( read original story …)
Pacific island nations turn to Beijing-backed AIIB as pandemic sinks economies
Pacific island nations are turning to China-led agencies to plug funding gaps in their pandemic-ravaged budgets after exhausting financing options from traditional western partners, stoking fears the … ( read original story …)
China’s Billionaires Aren’t As Rich As They Look
Is Zhong Shanshan really a bigger tycoon than Warren Buffett? On paper perhaps but the picture is different once liquidity is calculated. ( read original story …)
China was largest recipient of FDI in 2020: Report
China was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese economy having brought in $163 … (…
11 miners rescued in China after being trapped for 2 weeks after explosion
Chinese state television showed miners being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness. ( read original story …)
What does Beijing’s current silence over Britain’s citizenship offer to Hongkongers mean for the fate of BN(O)?
However China strikes back, pragmatism should prevail to allow Sino-British relations to survive the row, even if the BN(O) arrangement doesn’t. ( read original story …)
Foreign companies are giving up on the United States and betting big on China, report says
Foreign companies are turning their backs on the United States, taking advantage of China’s booming economy and superior management of the Covid-19 pandemic. ( read original story …)
China Passes U.S. As No. 1 Destination For Foreign Investment As Coronavirus Upends Global Economy
As the world struggled to contain the coronavirus crisis, foreign direct investment in the United States plummeted 49% in 2020 while investment in China rose 4%, making China the largest recipient of … ( read…
