Including the new charge, Bankman-Fried now faces 13 criminal counts. In early 2021, Chinese law enforcement officials froze certain Alameda accounts on two of China’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges …
Monthly Archives For March 2023
Syngenta IPO delay rekindles past China fears
The Swiss-turned-Chinese agrichemicals and seeds giant has been waiting since mid-2021 for regulators to clear its mammoth $9 billion initial public offering (IPO) on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-like Science …
Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction
Influenza and coronavirus share basic similarities in the way they … From the originally sequenced SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China in December 2019 to recently banked sequences from the U.S., there are …
Congress zeros in on China’s economic coercion
“We know China uses these tools, so we should be prepared to use counter tools.” Details: Bera gave several examples from recent years of Beijing’s use of import restrictions, informal sanctions and …
Disgraced Crypto Giant Sam Bankman-Fried Accused of Bribing Chinese Officials
Law enforcement in China froze the accounts as part of an investigation. Tuesday’s indictment was the third for Bankman-Fried since the collapse of the crypto exchange. The Wall Street Journal report …
Bankman-Fried charged with paying $40M bribe to China to unfreeze crypto
The indictment said Chinese law enforcement authorities in early 2021 froze certain Alameda cryptocurrency trading accounts on two of China’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The accounts, it said, …
Tech giants caught between escalating U.S.-China tensions
Apple CEO Tim Cook for the first time since the pandemic traveled to China this weekend, where he touted the company’s strong relationship with the country at a business conference organized by the …
Chip equipment exports to China tumble as U.S. pushes decoupling
TOKYO — Exports of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from the U.S. and Japan to China fell for the first time in three years in 2022 as Washington stepped up its trade restrictions on advanced …
MNCs View China International Import Expo as Launch Pad into Chinese Market
SHANGHAI, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — CIIE, as the world’s first national-level import-themed trade expo launched in 2018 … at the expo for long-term business relations with China. The fifth CIIE …
China’s Alibaba to break up business empire into six units, IPOs expected
“It releases additional value,” said Kenny Ng, a strategist at China Everbright Securities in Hong Kong. “With this expectation, investors will be more positive on Alibaba. It may reflect a new round …
Gisaid data move boosts hopes of establishing Covid-19 origins
assisting independent assessment of a potential animal link to the outbreak of coronavirus in China in late 2019. Global genomic repository Gisaid made the data, which was first made available this …
China’s maritime strategy: To own the oceans by adverse possession
Put differently, China is working to gain ownership of the oceans through adverse possession. The doctrine of adverse possession does not actually exist in maritime law. An Anglo-American property law …
Sunac China unveils sweetened restructuring offer for US$9.1 billion in offshore debt in latest move by a developer
Sunac China called on other debt holders who had not consented … Green shoots are emerging from the US$2.6 trillion property sector, helping sentiment in the bond market. Elsewhere, developer Logan …
