China’s capital Beijing reported 43 new symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 16, up from 39 a day earlier, state media reported on Tuesday.
Monthly Archives For May 2022
Why does China want to build a national data center system by 2025?
China plans to build a centralized data center project by 2025. It plans to channel the growing demand for computing and data analysis from the country’s eastern regions to its western regions.
Trade with nominal rigidities: Understanding the unemployment and welfare effects of the China shock
Concerns about international trade have grown, as recent studies document a negative effect of Chinese import competition on US labour markets. This column provides a new framework to explain this …
Fact check: Shipping map misrepresented in posts about delays amid China COVID-19 lockdown
Shipment delays have increased since COVID-19 lockdowns began in Shanghai in early March, but a viral post online doesn’t tell us much about them.
AFL-CIO Says Lawmakers Should Remove ‘Pro-China’ Provisions From Chips Bill
The AFL-CIO trade federation, representing 12.5 million workers, took aim at the Senate version of the bill in a letter to lawmakers, saying it “would benefit China’s economy more …
JPMorgan picks China stocks to play Beijing’s infrastructure boost
China has revealed new plans for building up cities, which JPMorgan analysts expect can boost some infrastructure stocks.
Analysis: Alarmed by Solomon Islands-China pact, NZ finds its voice on security
New Zealand has long been seen as the moderate, even absent, voice on China in the “Five Eyes” western alliance, so much so that its commitment to the group was questioned just 12 months ago.
Market check: Stocks mixed after China economic data disappoints
Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre checks out market actions and sector gains heading into the last trading hour, prices rises within commodities, bitcoin, ARK ETF components, and cannabis stocks.
China’s lockdowns, other rigid Covid-19 control measures heighten worries of worsening economy for nation’s middle class
On China’s internet, ‘run’ – as in, flee the country – gained momentum as the word of the year after Shanghai was put under a draconian Covid-19 lockdown.
Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line
In normal times, the Guanghuali apartment compound near the foot of one of Beijing’s tallest skyscrapers would buzz with afternoon activity, but these days only men in white pro …
Failed suicide bombing in Pakistan sends more chills down Beijing’s spine
A foiled suicide bombing against Chinese nationals in Pakistan is yet another attack that rattled Beijing, but will probably also strengthen its resolve.
Augathella invites China’s ambassador to see effects of trade ban on timber imports
The tiny town of Augathella in Queensland may be a world away from Beijing, but it has become collateral damage in China’s ongoing trade dispute with Australia.
China’s Developers Slash Investment for First Time Since 2020
China’s real estate industry continued a slump with investment in property development falling 2.7% in the first four months of the year, reflecting the impact of the worst Covid outbreak in two years …
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