Comprehensive Agreement on Investment has been hailed as a breakthrough in the China-EU relationship, which has been fraught with trade disputes. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For January 2021
China marks one year since Wuhan’s COVID-19 lockdown
China is marking one year since COVID-19 forced Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, into an unprecedented lockdown. At the time, the virus didn’t even have a name. Now, the city has returned to…
Biden agrees with Trump State Department on one issue: China committed genocide against Uyghurs
In a rare occasion of agreements, Joe Biden is on the same page with the Trump administration when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Ethnic Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region: It ……
Departing U.S. FCC chair warns of threats to telecomms from China
Outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai said potential Chinese espionage and threats to U.S. telecommunications networks and internet freedom are the biggest national … ( read original story …)
China works to contain new COVID-19 surge
China is battling its worst outbreak of coronavirus infections it has seen in months. This as it marks the one-year anniversary since COVID-19 forced the city of Wuhan into an unprecedented lockdown. ( read original…
China now claims that the coronavirus pandemic started in a US lab
Responding to Mike Pompeo’s recent claims that the novel coronavirus might have accidentally escaped from a Wuhan lab, China pushed back with its own conspiracy theories targeting the US. A … ( read original story…
Pandemic Lockdowns in China Loom Amid Weak Consumer Spending
China’s retail sales remain a weak spot, and spending during the coming Chinese New Year will be curtailed by pandemic restrictions. ( read original story …)
‘Frothy Squared’: Crypto Firms Are Lining Up to Tap Market Mania
The IPO fever whipping up animal spirits in the stock market has spilled over into the crypto-sphere. After watching investors pour millions into blank-check companies and seeing the likes of JFrog … ( read original…
US-China relations: Biden rouses optimism among businesses in mainland manufacturing hubs
Chinese firms in manufacturing hubs like Guangdong see improving trade ties under US President Joe Biden after four tumultuous years of Donald Trump. ( read original story …)
China and Russia find markets for their Covid-19 vaccines despite safety doubts
Russia and China are carving out global influence with their Covid-19 vaccines, despite lingering concerns about insufficient testing of the jabs.Hungary this week became the first European Union … ( read original story …)
Biz China Weekly: GDP, industrial output, retail sales, employment, property investment, SOE profits, FDI
China’s value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, went up 2.8 percent year on year in 2020, data from the NBS showed. The growth accelerated from a rise of 2.3 percent registered … ( read…
China, Kenya agree repayment holiday on US$245 million worth of debt
Deal was struck just hours before Nairobi was due to make its first repayment on a US$1.48 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China. ( read original story …)
Mike Pompeo accused China of committing ‘genocide,’ an international crime. Biden’s team agrees.
China relations for some time: the Biden campaign had said last year that China was committing genocide against the Uighurs; Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, says he agrees. The … ( read original…
