The FBI is preparing to analyze remains of the China spy flight that was shot down over the weekend at a lab in Quantico, Virginia, senior U.S. government sources say.
Monthly Archives For February 2023
Spy Balloon: Pressure on Biden to Hit Back at Beijing
Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to hit back at Beijing with new export controls on sensitive technology after the US shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean. He’s expected …
China Doles Out Free Digital Yuan During New Year To Boost Adoption
Though Digital Yuan ensures confidentiality however, it maintains enough records to track tax evasion and money laundering.
China reopening is wild card for Canada sticking economic soft landing, analysts say
China’s rapid reopening is likely to fuel demand for commodities produced in abundance by Canada, potentially helping Canada’s economy avoid a recession as long as it does not also force up inflation …
Taiwan tells start-ups to shun mainland China and go to Japan instead, amid supply-chain decoupling
The head of a Taiwanese government-backed group says that diversifying supply chains, with an eye on Japan, is being encouraged as ‘one of the new government policies’.
China Fully Removes Macau Travel Restrictions, COVID-19 Testing Requirements: Here’s How To Play It
China officially lifted all travel restrictions and limitations to Macau and scrapped COVID-19 texting requirements. Macau casino operators are now hoping the end of pandemic restrictions will produce …
Shiffrin’s Beijing lesson helps after another big-race DNF
Practically the only person not asking Mikaela Shiffrin if this was the Beijing Olympics all over again was herself. That’s because the American skier learned so much from that disappointing performance a year ago when…
Australia trade minister to travel to Beijing to meet counterpart
Australia trade minister Don Farrell said on Monday he had agreed to an in-person meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Beijing in the near future, in the latest sign that relations between the two…
Straddling Shiffrin Insists No Beijing Olympics Deja Vu
Mikaela Shiffrin insisted there was no feeling of deja vu of her disastrous experience at last year’s Beijing Olympics after she skied out of the slalom in a botched bid to defend her world combined…
Beijing’s response to the US shooting down its balloon has been muted. It might be China’s way of preparing for a future in which the roles are reversed, says international law expert.
If China pushes too hard, its own rhetoric may backfire if the US decides to send balloons or drones into Chinese airspace, said Julian Ku.
China escalates rhetoric against US after downing of mystery balloon
China says the balloon that flew over North America was shot down with “excessive force” on Sunday. The appearance of the balloon, and the response by the United States, have strained the already tense U.
China Is Not Happy About the United States Shooting Down Its ‘Weather’ Balloon
What the U.S. has done has seriously impacted and damaged … Sino-U.S. relations,” China’s foreign minister said
Coal exit can happen only with stronger policies, and with China cooperating, says study
Current climate policies including efforts like the Powering Past Coal Alliance will not add up to a global coal exit, a new study shows. Countries phasing coal out of the electricity sector need to …
