When he was tapped to help design Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the artist Ai Weiwei hoped the Games and the arena’s instantly recognizable weave of curving steel beams …
Monthly Archives For January 2022
Watchdog report finds mandatory Beijing Winter Olympics smartphone app has glaring security flaws
A smartphone app that athletes and others attending next month’s Winter Games in Beijing must install has glaring security problems that could expose sensitive data to interception, according to a …
Jamaica bobsleigh team qualify for Beijing Winter Olympics
Whether the small, hand-picked Chinese crowd will enjoy the cultural reference is yet to be discovered, however, the news on Monday for the Beijing Olympics wa …
Polish president attending Beijing Olympics despite US diplomatic boycott
Polish President Andrzej Duda will reportedly attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing despite the Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott against the games, which has been joined by several other …
China’s Tech Tomorrow
More than four decades ago, when China was emerging from the ashes of Mao Zedong’s rule, its then-leader, Deng Xiaoping, identified technology as one of the “Four Modernizations” that the country …
US basketball player Sonny Weems racially abused by fans in China
(CNN)American basketball player Sonny Weems has been subjected to racial abuse from fans while playing in China. In a video circulating on social media, fans can be heard repeatedly shouting the “N” …
The Guardian view on China’s baby bust: let people choose
Editorial: Beijing faces a demographic timebomb, with population growth at its lowest for six decades …
Xi reshapes China property market, paving the way for state dominance
For any government, overhauling a nationwide residential real-estate market would be risky under the best of circumstances. Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) is attempting it at a time when the …
China Arrests Eight People for $1 Million Crypto Scam
Chinese authorities have arrested eight people involved in a crypto scam in its latest crackdown on crypto-related activities. It also froze 6 million yuan ($1 million) worth of crypto assets tied to …
Crypto: ‘The Olympics should be a turning point’ for China’s CBDC, CoinDesk editor says
CoinDesk Global Macro Editor & CoinDesk TV Anchor Emily Parker joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss crypto regulation, Walmart exploring a move into the metaverse, and the outlook for China’s digital …
Doing business with China – separating fact from friction
Each of our episodes features an expert exploring China today, including frank discussions about doing business there …
Chamath Palihapitiya Is ‘Not Even Sure That China Is a Dictatorship’
Chamath Palihapitiya waded into the issue of China’s human-rights violations against its Muslim Uighur population when he threw up his hands at the whole thing. A former Facebook executive, part owner …
China’s Shenzhen reports 1 new COVID-19 case among closed-loop hotel staff
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen reported on Tuesday one new COVID-19 case, who was found among the staff working in a hotel under closed-loop management, local authorities said. The patient is a …
