HONG KONG—A year after Covid-19 swept through China, the virus is under control. Now authorities have to motivate a population that feels little urgency to get vaccinated by using a mix of social …
Monthly Archives For April 2021
China considers mixing Covid-19 vaccines to offer more protection
China is exploring the option of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines as a solution to the relatively low efficacy of its existing jabs, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease Control and …
Navigating Beijing’s digital cash ambitions
Taiwan’s print media seem to have become engulfed in a “digital currency fever” — almost every day there are reports about digital currencies saying that central banks in many countries are rushing to …
Kerry expected to travel to China in first visit by top Biden official
U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry is expected to travel to China next week in an attempt to carve out climate change as an area of closer collaboration amid deepening tensions between the two countries…
China Knocks on People’s Doors to Speed Up Domestic Covid-19 Vaccination
Infections are low and people aren’t in a hurry to get the shot, but officials are pushing for 40% of China’s population to be vaccinated by summer.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead China’s Didi Chuxing’s U.S. IPO
As a part of the sharing economy initiative in China, the company is committed to partner with … to surpass USD 100 billion valuation which is one of the biggest Chinese IPO in the United…
China approves new COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — A new COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinopharm has recently been approved for clinical trials. The new recombinant COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National …
50 Years Later, The Legacy Of U.S.-China ‘Pingpong Diplomacy’ Faces Challenges
Judy Hoarfrost remembers the day she walked into China a half-century ago. She was 15 and the youngest member of the U.S. pingpong team, which had been in Nagoya, Japan, competing in the World …
China fines Alibaba $2.8 billion for behaving like a monopoly
China has ordered Alibaba to pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after antitrust regulators concluded that the online shopping giant had been behaving like a monopoly. Chinese state …
China issues inflation warning as rising commodity, consumer prices threaten economic recovery
China’s leading financial officials released a rare statement warning about the potential rise of commodity prices and consumer inflation, which has become a global concern as major central banks have …
How the digital yuan stablecoin impacts crypto in China: Experts answer
Here’s what crypto and blockchain industry experts from China think about the digital yuan and how it has affected the blockchain space. In 2017, the PBoC launched the Digital Currency Research …
China has a privacy problem. New data laws could help curb the worst abuses – but not all of them
When PIPL goes into effect, sometime later this year or next, it may help curb some of China’s most widespread privacy abuses – but don’t hold out hope it will address the significant imbalance where…
China tries to wear down its neighbors with pressure tactics
WASHINGTON — China is trying to wear down its neighbors with relentless pressure tactics designed to push its territorial claims, employing military aircraft, militia boats and sand dredgers to …
