Global warming is greening the deserts of Xinjiang as rising temperatures lead to doubling of rainfall over half a century, researchers say.
Monthly Archives For April 2021
China backs Asean meeting to mediate in Myanmar crisis
Beijing tells Southeast Asian foreign ministers that it supports the bloc’s intervention but does not want outsiders ‘meddling’ in Myanmar’s internal affairs …
U.K. Blood-Clot Cases; Beijing Vaccination Drive: Virus Update
Beijing plans to have vaccinated all adults by the end of May. Subscribe to a daily update on the virus from Bloomberg’s Prognosis team here. Click CVID on the terminal for global data on cases…
China’s Dangerous Double Game In North Korea
China certainly doesn’t want to see North Korea weakened and the United States strengthened on the Korean Peninsula. But neither does it want the balance to tip so strongly toward North Korea that the …
EU Urges China to Ensure Freedom of Speech After BBC Journalist Leaves Country
The European Union on Friday called on China to ensure freedom of speech and the press after a British Broadcasting Corporation journalist in China relocated to Taiwan saying he had suffered threats …
Russia and China are beating the U.S. at vaccine diplomacy, experts say
What it did offer was to support Beijing’s “core interests” and oppose interference in its “internal affairs” — language China has used to defend against criticism over Hong Kong’s autonomy and …
Bitcoin surge could be driving digital yuan interest, says people’s bank of China
The digital yuan is China’s central bank digital currency, and like all CBDCs its foundational principles are completely antithetical to those of the cryptocurrency space. Core crypto concepts of …
JD Digits IPO terminated, Chinese stock exchange says
China Shanghai Stock Exchange said on Friday it had terminated the planned initial offering (IPO) in JD.Com-affiliated JD Digits, which had aimed to list on the Nasdaq-style STAR Market. BEIJING, …
Ohio Lt. Gov. bashes China on coronavirus, won’t address Trump
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted on Thursday continued to insist that in calling it the “Wuhan virus,” he was only raising questions about the Chinese government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic — not …
Bitcoin price surge may be driving up interest in digital yuan, Bank of China says
The recent rise of bitcoin could be among the reasons for renewed interest in the Chinese digital yuan project, according to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). The world’s top crypto, bitcoin, is …
Dominique Perrault Architecture Wins Competition for Shenzhen’s Institute of Design and Innovation
The new campus will form part of a larger site serving the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) which will accommodate over 4000 students. Inspired by the Chinese character «-», the …
China intensifies Xinjiang propaganda push as global backlash grows
China has intensified claims that it faced a serious “terrorist” threat in Xinjiang as Beijing remained locked in a stand-off with western capitals over its sweeping security clampdown on Muslim …
ZTE and China Mobile verify Inband OAM-based intelligent multi-fault analysis
ZTE Corporation and the Zhejiang branch of China Mobile have completed the verification of the intelligent multi-fault analysis, based on ZTE’s IOAM (Inband OAM). The IOAM-based multi-fault analysis, …
