While other parts of the world start to live alongside Covid, Beijing is continuing to pursue elimination, including testing as a key tool in an arsenal that also includes effectively closed borders …
Monthly Archives For February 2022
Day 13 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Curious viewers of the Beijing Winter Olympics want to know why. “How do figure skaters not get dizzy?” has been one of the top Google searches over the past week. So how do these athletes…
2022 Beijing Olympics: A timeline of the doping scandal clouding Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva
Kamila Valieva’s first Olympics have been flooded with controversy. The 15-year-old Russian figure skater entered the 2022 Beijing Games as a frontrunner in her sport after dominating the 2022 …
China Tech Stocks Outlook Improves Year After $1.5 Trillion Rout
A yearlong slide in Chinese technology stocks that wiped out $1.5 trillion in market value may finally be ending as investors look beyond regulatory hurdles to focus on valuations. Just 12 months ago, …
Beijing Winter Olympics live updates: Mikaela Shiffrin skis before women’s hockey, figure skating take stage
Team USA star Mikaela Shiffrin, who has had a nightmare of an Olympics, returns to action, competing in her fifth individual event as the Beijing Games continue on Day 13. Elsewhere, look for key …
China needs to be ‘more active’ in G20 debt relief effort: Yellen to AFP
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said China needs to do more to accelerate global efforts to provide debt relief for poor nations that ramped up borrowing during the pandemic. In an interview with …
China Is Showing Off the Digital Yuan at the Olympics. Can the U.S. Compete?
(Bloomberg Businessweek) –China is competing for more than just medals at the … “Suddenly the central banks of the world and especially the finance ministries of the world just lost their minds and …
G20 finance leaders to debate inflation, fallout from tighter policy
TOKYO/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Finance leaders of the world’s top 20 … consisting of Washington and its allies but also rivals China and Russia, can make policy coordination hard, said former Bank …
Administration says China failed trade commitments on multiple fronts
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration criticized China in a report released Wednesday morning for failing to uphold a wide range of trade commitments, including promises it had made when it joined the …
China Exports At-Home Covid Tests to U.S., Europe and Japan
Many of the free at-home Covid-19 test kits Americans are receiving from the U.S. government were made in China by three companies that are benefiting from surging demand worldwide — except in China …
Thai durian growers brace for China’s stringent import checks under zero-COVID-19 policy
BANGKOK: Durian plays a crucial role in the Thai economy because the fruit is much loved in its key export market – China. In 2021, Thailand exported more than 875,000 tonnes of the spiky fruits…
Buffett business partner Munger laments U.S.-China tensions, calls crypto ‘venereal disease’
(Reuters) – Charlie Munger, the longtime business partner of Warren Buffett, on Wednesday said it is “massively stupid” for tensions to escalate between the United States and China, and separately …
Billionaire Investor Charlie Munger Calls Crypto A ‘Disease’ And Praises China For Banning It
“We’ve already got a digital currency, that’s called a bank account,” Munger said, adding that he believes people only adopted crypto because of its usefulness in illegal activities like extortion, …
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