President Ruto’s decision to shift cargo clearance operations back to Mombasa has many concerned the railway will lose business to trucking companies …
Monthly Archives For September 2022
Report: China’s share of global trade growth to plunge in next 5 years
China’s share of all trade growth will drop to 13% over the next five years from 26% over the past six years, a new report from DHL and NYU’s Stern School of Business predicts.
China willing to strengthen post-COVID-19 cooperation with ASEAN countries: NHC
China is willing to strengthen post COVID-19 cooperation with ASEAN countries to boost their recovery, including the training of 1,000 health policy and professional and technical personnel for ASEAN …
Pope Laments Missed Chance to Improve Ties With China
Pope Francis says he doesn’t understand China but respects it, as another opportunity to improve ties came and went while the pope was in Kazakhstan.
Decoupling from China on clean tech comes with far more risks than reward, study finds
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a new University of California San Diego study …
Vatican sought Xi-Pope meeting in Kazakhstan, China declined – source
The Vatican told China that Pope Francis was willing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping while both leaders where in the Kazakh capital but China said there was not enough time, a Vatican source said…
China plays both sides in crypto: Trading is legal, crypto payments illegal
A court in Beijing ruled that locals are permitted to trade in cryptocurrencies, the catch was that crypto cannot be used as a substitute for money. Despite several bans on Bitcoin and …
Covid-19: Tens of millions of people remain under complete lockdown in China
While the rest of the world is managing to live with the virus thanks to vaccines, China is locked into its zero-Covid policy.
Tech war: record number of Chinese chip firms going out of business in sign of Beijing’s sputtering self-sufficiency drive
As many as 3,470 companies – including entities that use the Chinese word for ‘chip’ in their brands or operations – deregistered between January and August.
Medical review finds govt. leaders failed in COVID-19 response: Slow, uncoordinated, untrustworthy
Governments across the globe showed themselves to be “untrustworthy and ineffective” in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a medical journal said in a scathing report that said leaders were slow …
Former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Elbridge Colby on U.S. ability to win war against China — “Intelligence Matters”
Colby talks with “Intelligence Matters” podcast host Michael Morell about whether the U.S. military is ready for a new era of great power competition.
Putin concedes China has ‘questions and concerns’ over Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised China’s “balanced position” on the Ukraine war, though he conceded Beijing had “questions and concerns” over the invasion, in what appeared to be a …
Former defense official on U.S. military vs. China’s
Colby talks with “Intelligence Matters” podcast host Michael Morell about whether the U.S. military is ready for a new era of great power competition.
