Games less than a year away, a powerful and confident China is promising retaliation if any country boycotts the event over human rights. ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For February 2021
WiMi Wins Bid for Second Phase of China Mobile AND Media Cloud Platform’s Remote Interaction Holographic Project
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (Nasdaq: WIMI) (“WiMi” or the “Company”), a leading Hologram Augmented Reality (“AR”) Technology provider in China, today announced that it has won the bid for the second … ( read original…
China’s central bank issues 25 bln yuan of bills in Hong Kong
China’s central bank issued 25 billion yuan (about 3.87 billion U.S. dollars) worth of bills in Hong Kong on Friday. Among the total, 10 billion yuan worth of bills will mature in three months, and…
Geely and Concordium Announce a Joint Venture to Provide Blockchain Technology and Service in China Backed by Concordium’s Blockchain Technology
HANGZHOU, CHINA & ZUG, SWITZERLAND / ACCESSWIRE / February / The Concordium Foundation (Concordium) and the Geely Holding Group (Geely) have signed a Joint Venture agreement. The joint venture will … ( read original story…
Geely to build blockchain JV with Swiss foundation
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the country’s largest private carmaker, has inked a deal with Switzerland’s Concordium Foundation to offer blockchain technology and service in China. The foundation is a … ( read original story …)
Chinese Auto Group Geely to Set Up Blockchain JV
China’s Geely Holding Group will establish a blockchain joint venture with Switzerland-based Concordium Foundation. The joint venture aims to use Concordium’s technology to become a leading blockchain … ( read original story …)
China Suspending Jack Ma’s IPO Listings Has Political Connection, Says Report
The Wall Street Journal in a report claims the suspension order may have come directly from Chinese President Xi Jinping because of certain opaque investments. ( read original story …)
China’s domestic tourism shrinks in 2020 amid COVID-19 headwinds
BEIJING – Under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, China saw 2.88 billion domestic trips made by tourists in 2020, a slump of 52.1 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Culture and … (…
‘Cold War Mentality’: Beijing Irked by China Focus at NATO, Quad, and G7 Meetings
China responded coolly Thursday to being placed in an unwelcome spotlight at meetings this week of NATO defense ministers and the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific “Quad,” charging that it reflected a “Cold War … ( read original…
China Acknowledges 4 Deaths in Last Year’s Border Clash With India
It was the first explicit admission by the People’s Liberation Army that it had lost soldiers in the June brawl. India says 20 of its troops were killed. ( read original story …)
China considers new actions to lift flagging birthrate
China is considering additional measures to increase its flagging birthrate, more than four years after ending its controversial one-child policy … ( read original story …)
China Reveals Four of Its Soldiers Died in Border Clash With India
Beijing on Friday disclosed casualties from the club-and-rock Himalayan melee in June last year that also killed 20 Indians and ratcheted up tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. ( read original story …)
Hermès boosted by strong growth in China
French luxury house Hermès benefited from strong growth in China at the end of last year as shoppers snapped up its colourful silk scarves and leather handbags in their home market after Covid-19 … (…
