Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic … ( read original…
Monthly Archives For February 2021
Jake Sullivan criticizes China’s transparency on COVID-19 origin, but declines to stand by US intelligence on it
Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized China for blocking data on the origins of COVID-19, but declined to stand by declassified U.S. intelligence released at the end of the Trump … ( read original…
UK to call for UN probe of Uighur camps in China’s Xinjiang province
The UK foreign secretary wants UN investigators to be given urgent access to Uighur camps in Xinjiang as he warned that human rights abuses in the Chinese province are taking place on an “industrial ……
Deeper and deeper into debt
The prospect of sinking deeper into debt sounds scary even for an ordinary household. More so for a country, as excessive debt can force the government to cut back on social expenditures meant to ……
Scientists slam China’s ‘implausibly’ slow investigation of Covid-19 as WHO panel ‘has to recommend contact tracing of patient zero and wet market suppliers’
A to-be-published World Health Organisation report will recommend contact tracing Wuhan’s ‘patient zero’ as well as wet market’s supply chain to search for the origins of Covid-19 in China. ( read original story …)
Why Beijing Loves Biden and Paris
The U.S. rejoins a climate pact that gives China a free carbon ride. ( read original story …)
How China’s green finance slowdown threatens global climate ambitions
Growth in China’s green financing, even for its much-touted green bonds, appears to be stalling, as environmental priorities take a back seat in a year when the economy has struggled to recover from … (…
Boris Johnson’s warm words on China likely to infuriate backbenchers
PM declares he is a ‘fervent Sinophile’ as he seeks to strengthen UK trade ties with Beijing … ( read original story …)
China imposes new restrictions on online lenders including Jack Ma’s Ant
The new restrictions add to draft rules imposed on the booming sector in 2020 that heralded a sudden shift in China’s regulatory stance on fintech … ( read original story …)
India and China pull back from disputed lake
India and China have completed the pull-back of troops from part of their disputed Himalayan border, a joint statement issued by the Indian defence ministry says. Soldiers completed their withdrawal … ( read original story…
The China spectre
India s response to Chinese aggression has been bilateral in tenor, with almost no effort to signal to audiences beyond India and China … ( read original story …)
Man Smokes Next to Political Banner in Beijing, China
A Chinese man smokes a cigarette next to a government banner extolling the virtues of “Socialist Core Values” of equal justice, rule by law, being patriotic and dedicated to being friendly at a … (…
Men Wear Costumes in Beijing, China
Three young Chinese men, wearing warrior costumes, walk through a trendy shopping area in downtown Beijing on Sunday, February 21, 2021. A notice from China’s education ministry has caused some … ( read original story…
