The planned ‘e-yuan’ could boost Beijing’s surveillance state and create competition for private fintech groups … ( read original story …)
Monthly Archives For February 2021
IMAX Shares Soar On China’s Record New Year Box Office
Shares in IMAX, the Canadian-American film technology supplier whose U.S. business has been hurt by fallout from COVID-19, got a lift today from a healthy box office in China during the country’s long … (…
Historic textile business secures six figure sales in China
Sales worth more than £120,000 have been won in China during the last four months by a North Yorkshire textile industry supplier. Skipton-based family business, Brooksbank Industries Ltd, which … ( read original story …)
Priority travel: Pola Orbis aims to gain foothold in China travel retail to further overall growth
Japanese cosmetics maker Pola Orbis Holdings is doubling down on travel retail to gain share in the Chinese market, which believes is crucial to future growth. ( read original story …)
Virologist: WHO Team Found No ‘Credible Link’ Between Wuhan Labs, COVID-19
Virologist Marion Koopmans was part of a WHO team that reconstructed the early coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. She talked with NPR about her team’s investigation. ( read original story …)
China overtakes US as EU’s biggest trading partner
China is now the EU’s biggest trading partner, overtaking the US in 2020. China bucked a wider trend, as trade with most of Europe’s major partners dipped due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Trade between ……
Biden says there will be repercussions for China over human rights
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, adding he raised the issue with President Xi Jinping in a recent phone call. ( read original…
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Boycott Looming From ‘Genocide’ and COVID
The potential move by the U.S. would be unprecedented as the Winter Olympics have never been boycotted. If other countries followed a U.S.-led boycott, it could have an embarrassing effect for Beijing … ( read…
Beijing to add 1,000 hectares of wetland in 2021
Beijing aims to restore 1,000 hectares of wetland this year, beefing up its environmental protection efforts, local authorities have said. The Chinese capital has added 11,000 hectares of wetland in … ( read original story…
China walks the talk in supporting global COVID-19 vaccination
China is continuing expanding its aid and support for other countries, especially the developing and least developed ones, in getting access to COVID-19 vaccination. A shipment of 200,000 doses of … ( read original story…
Calls grow to relocate 2022 Beijing Winter Games
With the Beijing Winter Games less than a year away, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) are looking closely at human rights abuses in China, Canadian Prime … ( read original…
China: Majority of Britons think Beijing is a ‘critical threat’ to the UK
A survey, undertaken by the British Foreign Policy Group, found 41 percent of respondents regard China as a critical threat – up from 30 percent last year. ( read original story …)
International sports bodies seek relocation 2022 Beijing Winter Games owing to human rights abuses in China
“We continue to be very, very vocal in standing up for human rights around the world and calling out human rights abuses, as I have personally in the past directly with Chinese leadership, among many…
