When President Biden signed a bill requiring that TikTok be divested from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, members of Congress hailed the law as a blow to Beijing. They shouldn’t be so quick to celebrate.
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Actors from Yushu of NW China’s Qinghai perform in Beijing
Actors from Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China’s Qinghai Province perform in Beijing, capital of China on May 13, 2024. Thirty actors, all of them career farmers and herders, presented 10 shows, including dance,…
How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels
Heavy subsidies for industry, together with weak sales in China, have set the stage for an export boom, raising fears of factory job losses elsewhere.
New COVID-19 sub-variant unlikely to cause infection peak in China: experts
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) — The KP.2 sub-variant of COVID-19, which has become increasingly prevalent on a global scale, is unlikely to cause a new infection peak in China in the near future, the National…
Putin to visit Beijing, meet Xi this week
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China this week and meet with leader Xi Jinping, the two countries announced Tuesday.
Beijing slams UK after manager of Hong Kong trade office in London, 2 others hit with spying charges
British authorities have charged three men with assisting Hong Kong in spying activities, with one of them sharing the same name as the office manager of the city’s economic and trade office in London.
China’s Tencent posts strong revenue growth as ad sales, business services shine
China’s Tencent Holdings posted a 6% rise in first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, beating analyst expectations, as business services and advertising sales deliver strong revenue growth. The world’s largest video game company and operator of the…
Putin to meet Xi in Beijing as world convulses from global conflicts
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will welcome Vladimir Putin to China this week for the Russian President’s second visit in less than a year – the latest sign of their growing alignment amid hardening global fault…
Russian President Vladimir Putin To Visit Beijing This Week
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China this week on the invitation of leader Xi Jinping, Beijing’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Putin will be in Beijing from Thursday to Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying…
China tech: Shenzhen speed
How did China go from tech imitator to innovator? The FT’s James Kynge reports from Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley, where he explores the city’s vast electronics markets with inventor Noah …
Uganda in talks with China’s Sinohydro over power line to South Sudan
Corporation Limited for the development of a $180 million power transmission line to allow Uganda to export power to energy-starved South Sudan, the president’s office said.
Putin’s trip to China may show US threats are wishful thinking
Earlier this year, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen and secretary of state Antony Blinken visited China and laid out the threats to Chinese leaders and financial institutions. For now, these seem to …
Transcript: China tech — Shenzhen speed
James Kynge talks to inventor Noah Zerkin, Matt Sheehan, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Qi Zhou, a venture capitalist based in Shenzhen …
