Nearly 400 million people across 45 cities in China are under full or partial lockdown as part of China’s strict zero-Covid policy.
Monthly Archives For April 2022
Holiday briefing; China slowdown brings ‘multiple tools’ into play
Weak China activity brings out range of fixes; Japan’s population shrinks; US activity strong; UN alarm at food situation; IMF to signal stagflation; UST 10yr 2.83%; gold and oil stable; NZ$1 = 67.6 …
A fugitive Chinese billionaire claims this cryptocurrency will overthrow Beijing. Experts say it has the ‘hallmarks of a scam’
An ABC investigation unravels a sophisticated cryptocurrency operation endorsed by a political movement founded by exiled billionaire Guo Wengui and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
Update: Two lab modules to be central work area on China’s space station
Screen image taken at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 27, 2022 shows the Shenzhou-13 astronauts watching the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft leaving the core module of China’s Tiangong space …
China’s space station to enter new phase of application: official
In this combo photo, astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu (from L to R) are out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner…
China Eastern Airlines resumes Boeing 737-800 flights after crash
China Eastern flight MU5843, operated by a three-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft, took off from the southwestern city of Kunming at 09:58 am local time on Sunday and landed at Chengdu …
Virus threatens China’s economic growth
BEIJING: The mounting cost of China’s zero-Covid policy threatens to derail Beijing’s ambitious gross domestic product (GDP) target, analysts say, as supply chains snarl, ports face delays and …
In Shanghai, COVID-19 has become China’s political disease
In disease-stricken Shanghai, China’s largest city, residents go days without food and weeks without medicine, pets are butchered, people jump to their deaths and residents brea …
China unlikely to achieve GDP targets as Covid-19 crisis worsens
With a property market slump and regulatory crackdowns last year the policymakers set the lowest annual GDP target for China in decades for 2022, reported Dawn …
China to continue opening-up to tackle rising uncertainties, support multilateralism
Amid rising challenges and risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions and US policies, China will continue to deepen reforms and open up its economy, while bolstering the domestic …
China War With U.S. on the Horizon, Chief Propagandist Says
In a nationalistic editorial, Hu Xijin suggests the Chinese government should begin preparing its citizens for conflict with the United States over Taiwan.
China unlikely to achieve GDP targets due to COVID-19 crisis
China’s Zero-COVID policy and its highhandedness in handling the COVID crisis is causing hiccups in supply chains, delays at ports and lockdown in Shanghai which in turn is posing a grave threat to …
China’s New Gold Project Is A Double-Edged Sword For Tajikistan
As Tajikistan grapples with the economic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, China is offering an economic olive branch in the form of a brand new gold mining project …
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