Rejigging the BRI to focus on soft infrastructure projects in the digital and health sectors could help rejuvenate the initiative in a post-COVID world. ( read original story …)
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Naturally occurring enzyme holds potential as low-cost therapeutic to treat COVID-19
Researchers from UCLA and China have found that catalase, a naturally occurring enzyme, holds potential as a low-cost therapeutic drug to treat COVID-19 symptoms and suppress the replication of … ( read original story …)
Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19
Can’t stop checking social media for the latest COVID-19 health information? You might want to take a break, according to researchers at Penn State and Jinan University who discovered that excessive … ( read original…
Metallurgical Coal Market- Roadmap for Recovery from COVID-19 | Demand for Coal Tar to boost the Market Growth | Technavio
Technavio has been monitoring the metallurgical coal market and it is poised to grow by USD 14.91 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 2% during the forecast period. The report … (…
Kindergarten teacher in China gets death sentence for poisoning dozens of her colleague’s students
Wang Yun accused of putting sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’s students, sickening 25 and killing one. ( read original story …)
China’s Too-Big-to-Fail Real Estate Giant Pulls Back From Brink
China Evergrande Group took a major step toward avoiding a cash crunch that had threatened to roil the nation’s $50 trillion financial system and reverberate across global markets. ( read original story …)
China needs a raft of reforms to make new economic strategy work: government advisers
China will need a plethora of reforms if it is to make a new economic strategy that relies mainly on domestic consumption work, advisers to the Chinese cabinet said on Tuesday. ( read original story…
Tencent to take China’s Sogou private in $3.5 billion deal
Sogou Inc said on Tuesday shareholder Tencent Holdings Ltd would take the web search firm private in a $3.5 billion deal, making it the latest Chinese company to exit U.S. markets as tensions mount ……
Luckin fined, VCs seek out new Chinese brands: Retailheads
Last week, the state market regulator fined Luckin and the companies that assisted its sales fraud. New Chinese brands are attracting investor attention. ( read original story …)
China’s domestic economy ‘isn’t contracting the way the rest of the world is,’ says market strategist
Yogi Dewan, CEO and founding partner of Hassium Asset Management, discusses the positive outlook for China’s domestic consumption despite the pressure on its export-led recovery. ( read original story …)
Trump Says China Wants Him to Lose the U.S. Presidential Election. The Truth Is More Complex
With U.S. officials alleging that China is interfering in the electoral process, Beijing is wary of being perceived to favor one candidate or the other. And while Trump says China wants him to lose ……
China’s ‘dual-circulation’ model not a short-term response to COVID-19, U.S. frictions: adviser
China’s new “dual circulation” economic strategy proposed by President Xi Jinping is not a short-term measure to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic or frictions with the United States, an adviser to … ( read original…
Breakingviews – Corona Capital: China GDP, Plumbing, Swedish news
Corona Capital is a column updated throughout the day by Breakingviews columnists around the world with short, sharp pandemic-related insights. CHASING TARGETS. Chinese officials scrapped their annual … ( read original story …)
