A rare all-white albino giant panda has made another appearance, this time on video, in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwestern China.
Monthly Archives For May 2023
China’s push for trade in yuan has downsides for Gulf states
The United States closely monitored the Gulf’s appetite for trade in yuan. In February 2023, the dollar accounted for 84.3% of the world’s trade finance, down from 86.8% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the …
Valentino Names China’s Yang Yang as Latest Brand Ambassador
With more than 56 million followers on Weibo, Yang’s repost of the announcement logged more than 1 million shares, 300,000 likes, and 72,000 comments in less than a day.
O’Toole says CSIS told him he was targeted by Beijing during 2021 election
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says Canada’s spy agency told him he has been an ongoing target of a Chinese government campaign of misinformation and “voter suppression” that covered the last federal election campaign.
China was top market for Tesla Model Y, world’s best-selling car in Q1
China was the biggest market for Tesla’s Model Y electric sport utility vehicles, helping it become the world’s top selling vehicle in the first quarter of this year, according to data from market research firm…
A China Reset?
China views U.S. export controls as a deliberate scheme to maintain U.S. “technological hegemony.” The Xi-Biden summit in Bali last November was quickly overtaken by the spy balloon fiasco, which led to a cancellation of…
George Gao: China’s Dr Fauci who was praised for ‘heroic’ response to Ebola
But Prof Gao was the director of the Chinese CDC throughout the Covid pandemic and is, perhaps, the one person who knows more than Dr Fauci about where Covid came from and how it first…
Former China CDC Head: Don’t Rule Out COVID-19 Lab Leak Theor
China has publicly downplayed the laboratory leak theory, but one of the country’s top scientists said that a formal investigation into the idea was completed.
China fuels anti-NATO sentiment alongside Russia in support of ethnic Serbs fighting in Kosovo
China sides with Russia and backs ethnic Serbs fighting in Kosovo after dozens of NATO peacekeeping forces were injured in clashes.
Canada’s Former Conservative Leader Says China ‘Orchestrated’ Campaign Against Him
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s spy agency told former Canadian Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole that China campaigned to discredit him and suppress votes ahead of the 2021 election he lost to Liberal Prime Minister Justin…
China Billionaire’s Fosun Gets S&P Ratings Boost After Cutting Debt By $3 Billion; Stock Rises
Among its recent disposals, Shanghai Yuyuan Tourist Mart, a retail subsidiary of Fosun International, agreed to sell 80% of its ownership in diamond-related investment arm Alpha Yu to a fund …
UAE to cooperate with Hong Kong on fintech, crypto as China ties grow
China’s relations with the UAE and other Gulf states are strengthening, particularly regarding economic and energy matters.
Corporations still have to perform China’s dance–but not if the music stops
Of the companies in the S&P 500 that break down sales by geography, here are the one that are most dependent on China for their revenues.