A sexual assault case at Alibaba has sparked a new round of #MeToo reckoning in China. Industry observers believe this is a watershed moment for the fight against China’s allegedly misogynist tech …
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China’s coronavirus success could see Hong Kong-style subsidised medical care in mainland, health expert says
Professor Li Ling, from Peking University, says China’s successful handling of the pandemic is a good argument for implementing universal medical care, similar to Hong Kong.
Beijing betting on Taliban takeover
It seems unbelievable that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is so full of itself that it is attempting to tame the Taliban. However, it is desperate for two reasons. First, China must get ready for…
China-US trade ties ‘could recover first’ with Washington’s sincerity following Chinese envoy’s …
The US government is receiving increasing pressure from US business circles and its society to fix trade ties with China with the new Chinese ambassador to the US on Friday expressing that China will …
China Coders Held for Archiving Censored Covid-19 Articles to be Released Next Week
Two amateur Chinese computer coders who were jailed after archiving deleted news articles about the pandemics initial outbreak are set to be released next week after more than a year behind bars, one …
Ravaging Delta variant complicates China’s control, highlights need of dynamic zero-case
China on Friday reported 47 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases and 52 imported cases, which is the first time the latter exceeds the former since the latest Delta variant-related resurgence.
Crypto doomsday? New quantum computer poses ‘existential threat’ to Ethereum and Bitcoin
ADVANCES in quantum computing “presents an existential threat” to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, a leading industry expert has suggested.
China to host world’s two largest IPOs of the year
China’s Nasdaq-like STAR board plans later this year to host each of the year’s two largest IPOs in the market, with a forecast potential of raising over 100 billion yuan ($17 billion).
As Russian & Chinese troops carry out major joint exercises, US efforts to break the bond between Moscow & Beijing now seem doomed
Joint exercises between Russia and China have seen the world’s largest nation team up with its most populous one to showcase their military might, as co-operation between the two nations moves, at …
Afghanistan in Crisis, China Hostage Diplomacy: Weekend Reads
And in China, a Canadian jailed since 2018 was convicted of spying in a case that is seemingly linked to the fate of a senior Chinese executive fighting an extradition charge from Canada to the…
WHO denies shift on Covid-19 origin probe after China mission leader cites ‘probable hypothesis’
Leader of WHO’s China mission says collection of bat viruses in the wild was a ‘probable hypothesis’ and the Chinese team resisted including a lab leak theory.
China launches probe against officials for covering up fresh COVID 19 outbreak
China has launched a probe against Yucheng county in Central Chinas Henan Province which failed to curb the spread of coronavirus resulting in four new cases in the region, a media report said on …
Beijing jails two activists for 15 months: they published banned articles on Covid
The Chaoyang District Court yesterday sentenced two activists to 15 months in prison for publishing 100 articles online on the coronavirus crisis censored by the government. The sentence was announced …
