Stephane de Montgros first came to China as an engineering graduate, and today is the Director of an events and hospitality company. And his positivity and enthusiasm is truly infectious. SDM: I do …
Monthly Archives For March 2022
China doesn’t have a COVID-19 exit plan, people are fed up and angry
A health worker performs a nucleic acid test to detect COVID-19 at a testing site in the street on March 25, 2022 in Beijing, China. China has stepped up efforts to control a recent surge…
Malicious Crypto Apps Target Mobile Users, Mainly in China
The ban on cryptocurrency transactions in China has led many users in the country to look for alternatives. But researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET say that …
Exclusive: China’s Sinopec pauses Russia projects, Beijing wary of sanctions
China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions …
Why Investing in China Keeps Getting Harder
“Our overall view is this year, [the] China market is not an easy bull market,” Bank of America China strategist Winnie Wu said in a sober assessment of the market. “It’s more likely to be…
FCC Cites Kaspersky, China Telecom, China Mobile on Security
Corp, and China Mobile International USA Inc. were added to a U.S. list of companies deemed a threat to national security.
China’s yuan under pressure amid ‘unprecedented’ capital outflows following Russian invasion of Ukraine
Investors have pulled money out of China on a huge scale even as flows to other emerging markets held up, the Institute of International Finance says Analysts expect fund outflows in yuan-denominated …
U.S. and China at a crossroads
In instances when the U.S. and China cannot find common ground, the U.S. should compete with our economic strength, military deterrent and network of allies and partners.
China Continues Battling Worst COVID-19 Outbreak of Pandemic
China’s national health officials said Friday the nation is continuing to battle the country’s worst COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic, with more than 56,000 new cases counted since March 1. The …
China’s national wealth remains vulnerable to Western financial sanctions, no matter what it does
Sanctions on Moscow show that foreign reserves held by central banks are never truly ‘safe’, which is bound to make Beijing uncomfortable Yet when it comes to shifting away from Western currencies, …
Economic Watch: China scales up VAT rebates to boost market entities
China is set to boost its value-added tax (VAT) credit refunds in the country’s latest tax and fee reduction efforts to ease the burden on businesses and shore up the vitality of market entities. The…
Australian journalist Cheng Lei to be tried in Beijing on March 31
Cheng Lei, who worked as a television anchor for Chinese state media for a decade, was arrested last February on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.
U.S. urges China and Russia to send strong message to North Korea after missile launch
China and Russia should tell North Korea to avoid more “provocations” after it resumed intercontinental ballistic missile testing this week, U.S. State Department spokesperson Jalina Porter said on …
