China’s banking and insurance regulator on Wednesday issued revised measures for the evaluation of corporate governance supervision of banking and insurance institutions, stepping up oversight to …
Monthly Archives For December 2022
Twitter becomes stage for China protests despite ban by Beijing
Chinese protesters use Twitter through VPNs to smuggle out photos and information on protests in China over its zero-COVID policy and authoritarianism.
China protests show the world still revolves around Beijing
The outbreak of widespread protests in China against the country’s Covid-19 restrictions were the largest in decades. The challenge to the leadership in Beijing, with some of the protestors reportedly …
Alexander Wang’s China Dream
With China reaching triple-digit growth in the past two years, the designer said the business “has been the strongest it’s ever been,” despite the pandemic and sexual assault accusations.
Surging Covid cases dampen China economic outlook
BEIJING: China’s factory and services activity contracted further in November as a record number of Covid cases prompted widespread movement curbs, further damaging the economys …
Marketmind: Waiting on Beijing
The surprisingly dovish tone of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Wednesday is likely to drive world markets until the Fed’s December policy meeting, but for Asia, China’s economic data and …
China could punish people for ‘liking’ social media posts
The Cyberspace Administration of China published a new set of guidelines, going into effect on Dec. 15, that would make internet users in China liable for simply liking posts that the Central …
Jiang Zemin, former president of China, dies at 96
F ormer Chinese President Jiang Zemin died at 96 on Wednesday. The cause of the former president’s death in Shanghai at 12:13 p.m. local time was given as leukemia and multiple organ failure. Zemin …
Blinken Says China Repression Of Covid Protests “Sign Of Weakness”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that China’s “repressive” crackdown on protests over Covid lockdowns showed “weakness” by the communist leadership.
NATO Nations Grow More Receptive to U.S. Pleas to Confront China
After the pain of an energy crisis brought on by the Ukraine war, Europe is keen to reduce its strategic vulnerabilities to China, not to speak of other authoritarian governments.
Chinese in Southern California are sympathetic, worried for protesters back home
Some Chinese immigrants expressed solidarity with the protesters. But as videos of police making arrests leak, they worried for the protesters’ safety.
China’s Covid revolution: Three years of growing anger over Beijing’s obsession with failing lockdowns is exploding across the country…. but Xi ‘will crack down and punish …
Xi Jinping began his historic third term as Chinese leader a month ago with barely a whisper of protest, but that masked anger which has been growing for years and has now exploded into protest.
Yellen says appropriate for US firms to assess China geopolitical risks
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday (Nov 30) that businesses reviewing their supply chains should be mindful of the geopolitical risks surrounding China’s threats to Taiwan as well as …
