Big companies that stay silent on human-rights issues risk alienating U.S. consumers; those speaking up could earn the host nation’s ire. ( read original story …)
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Beijing’s hand behind Myanmar military coup?
Yet part of Myanmar’s original sin, and this includes the once sainted Suu Kyi, has been to run a hypernationalist Buddhist state at the expense of the country’s other ethnic and religious groups; … (…
Go Inside Beijing’s Forbidden City With Lush Images From This $995 Book
A lavish new book from Assouline takes readers inside Beijing’s opulent Forbidden City palace complex. | Frommer’s … ( read original story …)
China Reveals its First Assessment of Biden as President
The high-profile call between Biden and President Xi Jingping was praised for its ‘goodwill’ by a pivotal government-aligned Chinese media outlet. ( read original story …)
Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway.
Yan’s work, which was posted to the scientific research repository Zenodo without any review on Sept. 14, exploded on Twitter, YouTube and far-right websites with the help of such conservative … ( read original story…
China Refuses to Give WHO Raw Data on Early Covid-19 Cases
WHO investigators said Chinese authorities refused to give them personalized data that could help them determine how and when the coronavirus first began to spread in China. ( read original story …)
Olympic Sponsors Face a Balancing Act at the 2022 Beijing Games
Big companies that stay silent on human-rights issues risk alienating U.S. consumers; those speaking up could earn the host nation’s ire … ( read original story …)
China Is Approaching Its Own Peak Oil
The country’s energy companies are starting to see demand topping out around mid-decade. ( read original story …)
Biden warns China will ‘eat our lunch’ on infrastructure spending
US President Joe Biden has warned that China will “eat our lunch” if America doesn’t “step up” its infrastructure spending. Mr Biden was speaking on Thursday with a group of senators about the need to…
Beijing imposes tight measures for another Covid new year as blackface row erupts over celebrations
The coronavirus pandemic has forced people in China to change their Chinese New Year traditions for the second year in a row and for some, the occasion is a sad reminder that someone is missing…
Information Office of Beijing Municipal Government Releases “I am in Beijing for Spring Festival” Video Series
The Chinese New Year 2021 is special due to the COVID-19 pandemic which is not over yet. A notice was issued a few weeks ago encouraging … ( read original story …)
China Hints at a Shift on Climate
A rare public rebuke of the energy agency signals to some that environmental regulators have been empowered to counter the coal industry. ( read original story …)
Reunions postponed: China migrant workers caught on wrong side of COVID-19
Wang Yunxia, 30, spent her adult life largely on a factory floor in southern Guangdong, far away from her daughter in central China, and even farther away from her husband in Beijing, where he was…
