China is taking decisive steps to protect itself from a widening U.S. technology ban, with imports of computer chips and the machines that make them surging last year. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For February 2021
3TREES Paint Listed in ’2020 China Top 500 Companies for Patents’ Intellectual Property Rankings
A leading company in the Chinese coatings industry, SKSHU Paint Co., Ltd. (“3TREES”) was recently listed in the 2020 China Top 500 Companies for Patents, a ranking released by the Guangdong Enterprise … ( read…
UPDATE 1-SWIFT sets up JV with China’s central bank
SWIFT, the global system for financial messaging and cross-border payments, has set up a joint venture with the Chinese central bank’s digital currency research institute and clearing centre, a move … ( read original story…
China’s Central Bank And Swift Set Up New Joint Venture
As tensions only mount between China and the US, CIPS and SWIFT have been both partners and competitors within the cross-border payment space. ( read original story …)
What does the Year of the Ox mean for luxury markets in China and beyond?What does the Year of the Ox mean for luxury markets in China and beyond?
While European and North American luxury markets shrunk in 2020, China’s grew by 50 per cent – thanks to patriotic consumers and KOLs – and luxury brands need to keep up … ( read original story …)
China’s Messy Car Repair Market Gets a Goldman-Backed Makeover
Car repair can be challenging in China, rife with the potential for disputes over the quality of service and parts and dominated by mom-and-pop stores. But the auto after-market industry is changing … ( read…
China’s coronavirus cases: Is the communist regime lying to the world?
China reported just 25 new cases of the coronavirus on the mainland Tuesday, according to the state-affiliated People’s Daily newspaper. ( read original story …)
US-China investment flows belie geopolitical tensions
Instead of decoupling financially, the US and China now have one of the largest and fastest-growing bilateral investment relationships in the world,” said Nicholas Borst at Seafarer Capital Partners, … ( read original story …)
China says it now has nearly 1 billion internet users
After the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in China was over by April, some online trends stuck, while others didn’t, data from a government agency show. ( read original story …)
Anti-China Activists in Japan Call for Boycott of Beijing 2022 Games
A group of anti-China activists campaigning for human rights in Tibet and support for ethnic Uighurs called on Thursday for a boycott of the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing, saying the Games would … (…
Unilever restores targets as China and India boost sales
Unilever has restored its financial targets after scrapping them last year, as recoveries in China and India helped it increase underlying sales by 3.5 per cent in the fourth quarter. The maker of … (…
Yak politics: Tibetans’ vegetarian dilemma amid China meat boom
Former free-roaming nomads now mostly resettled in rows of sun-baked block houses in Tibet are facing a struggle for their identity, their spiritual and cultural practices – and even their stomachs. ( read original story…
China’s national blockchain network embraces global developers
While China bans cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings, the government is set to leverage the underpinning technology — often without the decentralized part. Blockchain, for instance, … ( read original story …)
