(COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020 – Volume 26, Number 7-July 2020 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal – CDC). It is a matter of concern that …
Monthly Archives For April 2021
Hong Kong needs to play catch up with Shenzhen on green GDP accounting
I refer to the recent announcement by the Shenzhen government that it is ready to adopt an alternative metric, the green GDP or gross ecosystems product (GEP), to measure its development. It may be …
Opportunities to improve China’s biodiversity protection laws
The authors review wildlife protection laws in China and provide recommendations on how sentencing could be improved to incentivize compliance.
China quiet on global minimum corporate tax rate backed by G20 as questions over Hong Kong’s tax-haven status arise
Analysts say China’s strained relationship with the United States could also come into play in international negotiations on a global tax deal that analysts say could come to fruition in the coming …
Scientists slam WHO-China report, demand ‘full investigation’ into COVID-19 origins
A year into a global pandemic, there has been no credible study into how it began, according to an international group of more than 20 scientists who have released an open letter blaming the Chinese…
How an election in Greenland could affect China — and the rare-earth minerals that go into your cellphone
Sitting on vast, untapped reserves of uranium and rare-earth minerals, Greenland holds the keys to massive wealth. But many Greenlanders have grave doubts about whether they should allow the world to …
P&G Worked With China Trade Group on Tech to Sidestep Apple Privacy Rules
Here’s how they came to depend on each other. Photo illustration: Jaden Urbi Procter & Gamble Co. participated in testing an advertising technique being developed in China to gather iPhone data for …
Peter Thiel: China could use bitcoin as a ‘financial weapon against the US’
when asked about China’s prospective plan to create a digital currency. He continued: “… And, even though I’m sort of a pro-crypto, pro-Bitcoin maximalist person, I do wonder whether at this point …
Breakingviews – China plus bitcoin is a marriage of convenience
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – Tech mogul Peter Thiel suggested this week that China might use bitcoin as a “financial weapon” to unseat government-backed currencies in general and the U.S. dollar …
Beyond Meat Competitor Impossible Foods Is Readying Its IPO, Sources Say
After years of investor anticipation and guesswork, sources close to the situation told Reuters today Impossible Foods, the biggest dedicated U.S. plant-based meat maker after Beyond Meat ( …
2021 U.S. Exports To China Up 43% From Pre-Covid 2019, Imports At Record Level
Imports of medicine in pill form have grown in the first two months of 2021. A 43.06% surge in exports to China is one of two pronounced changes in U.S. trade in early 2021, leaving…
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® DolphinScheduler™ as a Top-Level Project
Users include Budweiser, China Unicom, IDG Capital, IBM China, JD.com, Lenovo, New Oriental, Nokia China, Qihoo 360, SF Express, and Tencent, among others. “Apache DolphinScheduler is an excellent …
China Warns U.S. Not to Boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
China is warning the US not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Biden administration said it’s talking with allies now about how to approach the games because of complaints of human …
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