In 2023, Mexico overtook China as the No. 1 source of goods imported to the United States for the first time in over two decades, according to data from the U.S. Commerce Department. The value…
Monthly Archives For February 2024
China and U.S. begin new round of ‘panda diplomacy’ with iconic giant bears being sent to San Diego Zoo and possibly Washington in bid to turn around souring relations
China had recalled nearly all its pandas on loan to the United … to deepen the friendly ties between our two peoples,’ Xi said during a dinner speech with business leaders. The two leaders held…
New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace
i-SOON’s “business services” webpage states that the company … tried to recruit new talent by hosting a series of hacking competitions across China. It also performed charity work, and sought to …
Secret world of China’s international hacking networks exposed: Major leak reveals how state surveils dissidents overseas, launches cyberattacks other nations and uses …
A menu of services revealed that $15,000 granted a local government in southwest China access to a traffic police website … the targeting of Taiwan’s Health Ministry to determine its COVID-19 …
China’s ‘envoys of friendship’ to return to US zoo as Beijing restarts panda diplomacy
The deal came months after a dinner address by Xi to US business leaders in San Francisco in November, in which he called the country’s panda’s “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American …
Beijing’s African Gambit Runs Into Trouble
Congo. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Beijing has decided that it needs to make concessions within its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Africa. The arrangements always …
China on brink of all-out spy war with CIA as agency warns Beijing top challenge for US
China is on the brink of an all-out spy war with the United States as its top spy agency slammed the CIA for branding Beijing as the top challenge facing the United States. The Ministry…
Commodity prices face downward pressure as China’s economic woes continue – CME Group
The CME Group said Thursday that commodity prices may experience downward pressure over a longer-term time horizon as the world’s second largest economy, China, continues to face economic struggles.
China Sends Warships to the Middle East
China has sent a guided-missile destroyer to the Gulf of Aden as part of an anti-piracy mission amid tensions over Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea Setting sail from …
Why China Doesn’t Have an Opposition Leader Like Navalny
In October 2022, when China was still under its draconian COVID-19 lockdown, a man unfurled two banners on a bridge in central Beijing, calling for an end to the “zero COVID” policy and for “despotic…
South China Sea: Manila could file case against Beijing over possible cyanide use by Chinese boats
President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr says the legal action will proceed if Chinese boats were proven to ‘intentionally destroy’ the Scarborough Shoal.
Huaxia Bank reports 5.3 pct growth in 2023 net profits
BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Mid-size Chinese lender Huaxia Bank reported steady growth in net profits last year. The bank raked in 26.36 billion yuan (3.71 billion U.S. dollars) in net profits, up …
Could China’s economy-boosting infrastructure plans throw a contradictory monkey wrench in the works?
China’s Ministry of Finance said in November that the outstanding debt held by local governments had reached a record high in October, surpassing 40 trillion yuan. The previous record high was about …
