China’s race to stop the spread of COVID-19 is clogging highways and ports, stranding workers and shutting countless factories – disruptions that are rippling through global supply chains for goods …
Monthly Archives For April 2022
A big iPhone manufacturer suspends production at two factories in China
One of Apple’s top suppliers is stopping work at its factories in and around Shanghai as the city of 25 million people remains under a strict Covid lockdown. Here are the details.
Stellantis rejigs China financing ops in latest reboot plans
“at-above-post addthis_tool” data-url=” Tassilo Hummel and Giulio Piovaccari PARIS (Reuters) -Fiat parent Stellantis will sell its stake in an auto financing joint venture to its Chinese partner …
Across China: Hearing-impaired group sets up thriving cleaning business
A group of hearing-impaired people have established a cleaning company in Hefei City, capital of east China’s Anhui Province. They hope to earn a living and the respect of their community as they …
China Denounces Taiwan’s Efforts to Protect Tech Industry
China on Wednesday denounced Taiwan’s efforts to prevent Chinese companies from poaching talent and stealing chip secrets as a provocative “smear”, saying this could not prevent interactions between …
China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone
The fear in China is that the strict coronavirus policy has become another Mao-style political campaign with devastating effects.
China Official Compares Taiwan to America’s ‘Concubine’
The comments—made at the end of the Taiwan Affairs Office press conference in Beijing—were later struck from the written record.
New Tech, New Concepts: China’s Plans for AI and Cognitive Warfare
The United States and its allies may have built the Maginot Line of the information age. But just as the German armored units broke through the Ardennes …
Green development to bring more investment demands to China
China’s transformation of energy structure and green technology development will attract massive demands for investment in the future, said a report. Estimations predict that in the next 30 years, the …
Alibaba Cloud undergoes leadership reshuffle, report says, joining China’s tech industry upheaval
Alibaba Cloud China president Ren Geng is stepping down, with vice-president Huang Haiqing set to take over, as Alibaba vice-president Guo Jijun also resigned Cloud computing has continued to grow …
China’s disciplinary agency vows to stabilize capital market after several bank executives expelled
The Communist Party of China’s (CPC) top disciplinary agency pledged to strengthen supervision and maintain the stable operation of capital markets in a notice released on its official website on …
The Future of Regulation: Navigating CBDC unknowns and crypto appeal
This is an extract from Finextra’s ‘The Future of Regulation 2022’ report. CBDCs: A love-hate saga. While monetary authorities in many countries around the world are conducting st …
China’s Mysterious Vaccination Failure
It seems that a combination of bad luck and poor decisions, especially a failure to vaccinate its elderly, has left the Chinese government with a choice between a tsunami of death and massive social …
