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Tracking China’s Overseas Development Finance
Tracking China’s Overseas Development Finance. By Rebecca Ray and Blake Alexander Simmons. The China’s Overseas Development Finance Database is a geospatial dataset for analys … ( read original story …)
The Pandemic Has Seen Global Spikes in Pet Abandonment. Here’s How One Shelter in China Has Been Coping
W hen readers of TIME last saw Sweetie, it was a frozen February morning in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and the terrified dog was snared in a policeman’s net. Like thousands of other…
‘Being young’ leads to detention in China’s Xinjiang region
Chinese authorities using a data-driven ‘predictive policing’ network to intern people from Muslim minorities … ( read original story …)
Sinovac: What do we know about China’s Covid-19 vaccine?
As the global race to produce a Covid-19 vaccine continues, China appears to have made huge strides, with one of its vaccine front-runners, Sinovac, already making its way abroad. Shipments of Beijing … ( read…
New Zealand must build bridges with China but show independent foreign policy
Wellington needs to resist pressure to back Canberra in spat with Beijing because our ‘mates supporting mates’ plan will end in tears … ( read original story …)
China, Nepal agree to adjust Mount Everest’s elevation by 2 feet
China and Nepal agreed to raise the recorded elevation of Mount Everest by 2 feet Tuesday, following more than a decade of debate over the mountain’s height. ( read original story …)
The woman behind China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission
A 24-year-old female space commander has become a viral sensation on Chinese social media for her work on the Chang’e-5 Moon exploration programme. Despite being the youngest commander at the Wenchang … ( read original…
Key Biden aide accuses China of ‘assault’ on freedom in Hong Kong
Jake Sullivan, the incoming US national security adviser, has accused China of attacking freedom in Hong Kong, in a sign that the Biden administration will take a critical stance … ( read original story …)
How China has used the pandemic to pull ahead on trade, by the numbers
While the virus continues to hamper the economies of both the U.S. and Europe, China has managed to parlay the pandemic into a stronger global trade position. ( read original story …)
Commerce chief Wilbur Ross touts business with China despite military threat
China’s apparent “recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic could spell good news for American businesses, according to a top Trump administration official who nevertheless characterized Beijing as a … ( read original story …)
Pompeo Warns Businesses Over Hong Kong as U.S.-China Tensions Rise
The secretary of state said the U.S. would treat the global trade and financial center as “another Chinese Communist-run city” in light of Beijing’s efforts to tighten its control over Hong Kong. ( read original…
The election is over. Can we finally blame China for the pandemic?
Now that the presidential election is over, can we finally blame the Chinese communist regime for the covid-19 pandemic? In the run-up to the election, Democrats treated any effort to blame China for … (…