China is playing catch up, but it is slowly gaining. Key point: A better fighter aircraft and an electronic warfare plane would both make a huge difference for China’s military. This first appeared …
Monthly Archives For August 2021
Asian Stocks Dip, Dollar Up as China Tech Retreats: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks fell Thursday on caution about the regulatory outlook in China and a looming Federal Reserve gathering that may provide more clues about its approach to paring stimulus. The dollar …
Indebted China Evergrande expects H1 profit to plunge as much as 39%; shares slip
China Evergrande Group (3333.HK), the country’s most indebted property developer, said late on Wednesday it expected its six-month net profit to slump as much as 39% from a year earlier, dragged by a …
China will ‘hold accountable’ unvaccinated for COVID-19 outbreaks
Chinese authorities have warned that they will hold accountable people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they spread the virus.
Coronavirus: scientists on WHO mission to China say time is running out to trace virus origins
Some studies will be ‘biologically impossible’ once the window of opportunity for crucial inquiry closes, 11 scientists write in Nature journal.
Privacy law will help China flex muscles on digital trade
That could have a significant impact on international data flows as more countries erect digital trade barriers to protect citizens’ privacy or national security, privacy and legal experts say. “ …
The Times view on Beijing’s lack of transparency: Coronavirus Cover-Up
Anthony Kwan/Getty ImagesProtective masks are de rigueur for stallholders and shoppers in a Hong Kong food market last JanuaryMore than five billion doses of va …
Rejecting coronavirus inquiry, China peddles conspiracy theories blaming the U.S.
When a conspiracy theory started circulating in China suggesting that the coronavirus escaped from a U.S. military lab, it had largely stayed on the fringe.
Beijing delegation’s visit to Hong Kong much more than a briefing on economic development
A pro-Beijing heavyweight, who attended one of the forums … the director of the People’s Bank of China’s Finance Research Institute, who suggested Hong Kong, as home to the largest pool of offshore …
China’s regulatory crackdowns already hurting the economy
China has clamped down on industries ranging from steel to education to property.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Beijing’s teacher rotation policy aims to improve equity
Primary and middle school teachers in Beijing’s public school system will be required to take part in rotation programs to further improve education equity and quality in the city. Teachers and …
Ray Dalio is wrong about China’s tech crackdown, economist says
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says investors are misconstruing China’s tech crakcdown as “anti-capitalist.” Economist George Magnus thinks that’s “wrong.” …
China criticises U.S. ‘scapegoating’ over COVID origin report
“at-above-post addthis_tool” data-url=” Gabriel Crossley and Michael Martina BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China on Wednesday criticized the U.S. “politicization” of efforts to trace the origin of the …
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