Big Tech listing reforms and a push to attract international firms will draw more IPOs to Hong Kong, which could propel the city to the top of the fundraising charts in 2023, analysts say.
Monthly Archives For January 2023
China tech in 2022 | A difficult year for many, but EVs and overseas retail provide bright spots
China had a rough ride in 2022. Throughout the year, the economy was plagued by the frequent resurgence of Covid and the related containment measures that disrupted daily activiti …
Xi warns of tough COVID fight with China economy on back foot
President Xi Jinping said tough challenges remain in China’s fight against covid-19 and urged patience, after weeks of silence on a virus policy pivot that’s infected hundreds of millions and …
China Is Preparing for War, Retired General Warns
“Xi Jinping has made it quite clear…that he is going to make, from his perspective, China whole again by subsuming Taiwan,” H.R. McMaster said Sunday.
China’s 1.4 Billion Population To Drop
Among the largest challenges China faces as its population grows older is the cost of supporting them financially and caring for their health. This looks something like the America Social Security …
China marks 3-year anniversary of first COVID-19 cases with estimated 9,000 deaths per year
COVID-19 is surging to astronomical levels in Mainland China, an estimated 9,000 deaths a day and more than 250 million cases in a month, three yearsafter the nation reported cases of pneumonia of unk …
NASA chief warns China could claim territory on the moon if it wins new ‘space race’
China could establish a base on the moon and keep the U.S. out if it wins the new space race, NASA’s top administrator Bill Nelson warned on Sunday.
Blinken discussed U.S.-China relationship in call with China’s Qin
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with incoming Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang over the phone on Sunday, Blinken said on Twitter, after China last week appointed its ambassador to the …
COVID-19-mutation risk drives rush to test travelers from China
The latest restrictions come after the U.K. and France on Friday joined the rush of countries testing passengers and sequencing samples from people arriving from China in an effort to identify any …
Australia and China both gave up on COVID-zero just as an Omicron outbreak hit. Here’s why the situation is so much worse for Beijing
Australia’s experience of moving to a model of living with COVID in January has some distinct similarities to China’s current transition away from COVID-zero.
Foreign students expected to stream back Beijing
After three years of pandemic controls that limited academic exchanges between China and the rest of the world, students have begun making plans to study abroad again, media reports said.
COVID surge in China provides fertile ground for new variants, scientists say
It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, scientists say. Every new infection offers a chance for the …
TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl,’ incoming GOP China committee chair says
TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China.
