China has used extra surveillance and restrictions ostensibly imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic to block the work of foreign reporters already struggling with threats of detention and punitive … ( read original story …)
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Copying China’s Online Blockade
How other countries’ efforts to control the internet compare with China’s Great Firewall. This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. China’s … ( read…
Biden urged to back AI weapons to counter China
The US and its allies should reject calls for a global ban on AI-powered autonomous weapons systems, according to an official report commissioned for President Biden and Congress.It says that … ( read original story…
China’s STAR market had a great year in 2020 despite COVID-19
Over 200 of China’s most promising tech companies listed on China’s Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR), often regarded as China’s version of the NASDAQ, saw major growth in net profits in … ( read…
China lags behind vaccination goal, but says it aims to have 40pct inoculated by June
China is lagging in its coronavirus vaccination rollout because it has the disease largely under control, but plans to inoculate 40 percent of its … ( read original story …)
UPDATE 1-Some Beijing communities giving COVID-19 shots to the elderly
Some local communities in Beijing have started giving COVID-19 vaccine doses to people older than 60, even as the city’s disease-control authorities publicly advise this age group against inoculation. ( read original story …)
Chasing coronavirus with China vaccines
The mass vaccination of some 80 million Filipinos finally rolled off yesterday with health workers armed with 600,000 doses of Chinese vaccines fanning out initially in Metro Manila to start … ( read original story…
Senior Beijing official calls for three ‘extremely bad’ Hong Kong opposition figures to be ‘strictly punished’
A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has reaffirmed the importance of “patriots” governing the city in a speech to pro-establishment figures in Shenzhen, with state media reporting that … ( read original story…
China Manufacturing Stumbles as U.S. Takes Off
It isn’t entirely coincidental that manufacturing readings out of China are slowing while those out of the U.S. are soaring, but the situation may not last. ( read original story …)
Data shows China’s effort on COVID-19 vaccine development
With the sudden strike of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have made great effort to develop new vaccines for the virus. Fortunately, vaccines from 12 developers, of which four are from China, … ( read…
Intimidation of foreign journalists, sources rising in China, survey shows
Harassment of foreign correspondents and their sources has become increasingly common in China amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. The Beijing-based … ( read original story …)
Scepticism over China’s Sinovac jab as Philippines rolls out coronavirus vaccination programme
The Philippines began its long-stalled coronavirus vaccination programme on Monday, amid a spike in infections and public resistance to the use of a Chinese developed vaccine. Images of the head of … ( read original…
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The second batch of mainland-made COVID-19 vaccines are delivered to the Macao Special Administrative Region on Feb. 28, 2021. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka) … ( read original story …)
