Five US lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to meet with government officials, defying Beijing to visit the contested island.
Monthly Archives For November 2021
China Property Turmoil Risks Upending Nascent Green Debt Market
The debt crisis engulfing the Chinese real estate sector is threatening to upend developers that have borrowed billions in green debt to fund sustainable buildings.
DC Edit | Biden’s red rag for Beijing
President Joe Biden has posited the ideological challenge in the world to be between democracy and authoritarianism …
China urges Japan to support Beijing Olympics
China on Thursday urged Japan to support the Beijing Olympics, as the United States and other democratic countries are weighing up whether to implement a “diplomatic boycott” of the Winter Games.
Adam Zivo: Revulsion at Uyghur slave labour, tennis star’s plight energize push to boycott Beijing Olympics
If the Tokyo Olympics could be postponed for a pandemic, the Beijing Olympics can be postponed for a genocide’ China weaponizes its large and lucrative market to silence critics who protest Beijing’s …
200,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Jamaica from China
Two hundred thousand doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Jamaica from the People’s Republic of China. Of this number, 100,000 doses have been donated by the Government of China, …
Slovenian tourism soars in October despite COVID-19 epidemic
The number of foreign tourists visiting Slovenia in October was four times higher than in the same month last year, the country’s statistical office reported on Thursday. The figure reached 161,470 …
FirstFT: China emissions fall as economy buffeted by property downturn
Plus, Deutsche Bahn whistleblowers alleged fraud and UK and France vow to increase co-operation after migration tragedy …
China to remain “super market” into next year, Daimler China chief says
Daimler’s China sales will stay strong next year, the carmaker’s China chief said on Thursday, adding he was confident that Mercedes-Benz could grow its share of the country’s electric vehicle market …
Legislation to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region introduced in Senate
Senator Leo Housakos introduced the bill, S-204, which proposes to block all imports from Xinjiang in China’s northwest …
WHO discusses new COVID-19 variant with ‘unusual’ mutations
The recent authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 and the emergence of two promising pills for treatment of the virus have been major steps in the fight against the pandemic. But…
China and Russia in spotlight as Greens take charge of German foreign policy
For months Germany’s Greens have pushed for a major rethink of their country’s foreign policy. Now they have the chance to spell out exactly what changes they have in mind. For the first time in…
China non-committal on US ‘drop in the ocean’ oil release
China, the world’s largest crude importer, was non-committal about whether it will release oil from its reserves as requested by Washington, while Opec sources said the US action has not made the …
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