The People’s Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour. North Korea is the only country with which China has a legally…
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What Travel Brands Can Learn from Alibaba’s New Luxury Marketplace
Luxury brands have previously been vastly underrepresented on China’s main e-tailers such as Alibaba’s T mall and JD.com. According to L2’s recent report Luxury China, 100 percent of consumer goods brands have an official presence…
Aramco Looks To China Ahead Of IPO
Saudi Arabia is getting ready to list 5 percent of its crown jewel—state oil firm Aramco—in what could be the biggest IPO ever. The Saudis claim that the whole company is worth US$2 trillion, while…
China’s Xi wants to put relations with India on ‘right track’: Xinhua
XIAMEN, China (Reuters) – China wants to put its relationship with India on the “right track”, President Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting in Xiamen, the official Xinhua news agency reported…
China seeks to silence critics at U.N. forums: rights body report
In a report released on Tuesday, the group said China restricts travel of activists, or photographs or films them if they do come to the U.N. in Geneva to cooperate with human rights watchdogs scrutinizing…
Taiwan appoints new premier amid tense China relations
“No matter what Lai talks about, he still supports Taiwan independence, so mainland China won’t give him much face,” Huang said. The Tainan city news department director declined to answer a question Tuesday about whether…
BRIEF-China Aoyuan Property Group posts August contracted sales of about RMB2,655 million in total
Sept 5 (Reuters) – China Aoyuan Property Group Ltd : * August 2017, group achieved unaudited contracted sales of approximately RMB2,655 million in total Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters…
China hits booming cryptocurrency market with coin fundraising ban
China on Monday banned and deemed illegal the practice of raising … “The initial coin offering is a new business model leveraging blockchain technology and it will remain,” he said. “This is not the end…
Here’s why China’s crypto crackdown is ‘bigger than most people think’
Adam Efrima, the operations director of trading platform eToro in China, described the ruling as a “huge deal,” saying: “It’s bigger than most people think it is.” Efrima, who first alerted Business Insider to the…
VW recalls 1.8 million cars in China
These are external links and will open in a new window More than 1.8 million Volkswagen cars are being recalled in China because of a faulty fuel pump. China’s consumer watchdog said the recall affected…
China bans initial coin offerings calling them ‘illegal fundraising’
Issuing ICOs – a relatively new phenomenon – has become popular in China, with close to $395m (£305m … with ICOs don’t necessarily offer investors a stake or equity in their business in exchange for…
China censors discussion of North Korea’s bomb test
Chinese censors appear to be stifling online discussion of North Korea’s latest missile launch, a move apparently linked to China’s hosting of this week’s Brics summit. Posts on the popular microblogging network Sina Weibo and…
China has tools to pressure Kim but worries of consequences
BEIJING — China has the economic tools to pressure North Korea but fears pushing Kim Jong Un’s government so hard it collapses. Though China has long been the North’s main trading partner and diplomatic protector,…
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