Beijing wants to break up Alipay, the hugely popular payments app owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Group, and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business, the Financial Times …
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China’s Hunt for Dissidents Has Gone Global
Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist … Most recently, he is the co-author of “The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order.” For years, China has purported to be a new type of great…
Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app
Beijing wants to break up Alipay, the 1bn plus-user superapp owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Group, and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business, in the most visible …
Quietly, Russia Beating The Market. Now Wall Street Eyes New IPOs
Russia is having a quietly successful year. As the market turns towards domestic pandemic … [+] information, and the ongoing battle with China, Russia is clobbering the MSCI Emerging Markets, and …
FirstFT: Biden-Xi call amid strained US-China relations
Biden-Xi hold second phone call, Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific agree deal, Le Pen launches French presidential campaign …
Coinbase customers up in arms after hackers drain crypto wallets
In a recent article from TechRadar, it was revealed that Coinbase customers are very concerned following actions by rogue hackers to drain their crypto wallets. These hacked Coinbase accounts are then …
Trump says Afghanistan withdrawal opens door to China, Russia reverse-engineering US military equipment
Former President Trump speculated that China and Russia have already obtained U.S. military equipment left behind in Afghanistan and are reverse engineering it.
Malden firm suing computer giant HP over China deal gone wrong
Three salespeople from a local used computer reseller ended up in a Beijing prison for seven months over a counterfeiting complaint. Their story is at the center of a lawsuit filed in federal court in…
The Guardian view on Xi Jinping’s China: rectification, not revolution
Editorial: A wide-ranging crackdown and leftist rhetoric have stirred fears of a return to the apogee of Maoism …
China denies targeting Canadian businesses for political reasons after Canada Goose fined for false advertising
A statement from the consulate-general in Montreal says it is ‘complete nonsense’ to suggest companies from the country are being singled out for retribution.
Southeastern China Reports New Coronavirus Outbreak
China’s southeastern Fujian province on Sunday registered 20 new COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission (NHC) said.
Covid-19 outbreak hits eastern China; Putian city sealed off, travel restricted
The city of Putian in the province of Fujian in China has been virtually sealed off with residents advised not to leave after 20 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Sunday for the day before…
East China city reports 32 confirmed COVID-19 cases
The city of Putian in east China’s Fujian Province reported 32 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 32 local asymptomatic carriers from Friday to 4 p.m. Sunday, according to local …
