On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown. But the severe measures also came at a huge personal cost to residents, and despite the apparent return to…
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Five Takeaways From the Developing Space War Between China and the U.S.
The Biden administration is inheriting the menace of Chinese antisatellite arms as well as an innovative way of trying to defuse the escalating threat. ( read original story …)
How Space Became the Next ‘Great Power’ Contest Between the U.S. and China
The Biden administration faces not only waves of Chinese antisatellite weapons but a history of jumbled responses to the intensifying threat. ( read original story …)
Pacific island nations turn to Beijing-backed AIIB as pandemic sinks economies
Pacific island nations are turning to China-led agencies to plug funding gaps in their pandemic-ravaged budgets after exhausting financing options from traditional western partners, stoking fears the … ( read original story …)
China’s Billionaires Aren’t As Rich As They Look
Is Zhong Shanshan really a bigger tycoon than Warren Buffett? On paper perhaps but the picture is different once liquidity is calculated. ( read original story …)
China was largest recipient of FDI in 2020: Report
China was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese economy having brought in $163 … (…
11 miners rescued in China after being trapped for 2 weeks after explosion
Chinese state television showed miners being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness. ( read original story …)
What does Beijing’s current silence over Britain’s citizenship offer to Hongkongers mean for the fate of BN(O)?
However China strikes back, pragmatism should prevail to allow Sino-British relations to survive the row, even if the BN(O) arrangement doesn’t. ( read original story …)
Foreign companies are giving up on the United States and betting big on China, report says
Foreign companies are turning their backs on the United States, taking advantage of China’s booming economy and superior management of the Covid-19 pandemic. ( read original story …)
China Passes U.S. As No. 1 Destination For Foreign Investment As Coronavirus Upends Global Economy
As the world struggled to contain the coronavirus crisis, foreign direct investment in the United States plummeted 49% in 2020 while investment in China rose 4%, making China the largest recipient of … ( read…
China Overtakes U.S. as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
New investments by overseas businesses into the U.S., which for decades held the No. 1 spot, fell 49% in 2020, according to U.N. figures released Sunday, as the country struggled to curb the spread of…
Great Predictions about Blockchain and crypto market in 2021
When any nation’s history is written, the year 2020 will occupy a particular chapter with multiple social-economic difficulties. In that year, most of the world’s economies came to a standstill. The … ( read original…
Wuhan, China, marks a year since it entered lockdown as Ground Zero of coronavirus epidemic
China’s new mystery illness The anniversary of the lockdown Saturday comes as more contagious variants of the coronavirus spread and efforts to vaccinate people against COVID-19 have been frustrated … ( read original story …)
