SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (NasdaqGS:QCOM – News), blocked this week from a takeover bid amid national security fears, was already walking a Pacific tightrope: it has government and defense contracts in America,…
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A Bar Street Falls Quiet as Beijing Puts a Limit on Foreigners
BEIJING — Most nights, a mixed crowd of young Chinese and foreigners, many of them students, cram the sidewalks along Caijing Dong Street, drinking alcohol and snacking on street food to the sound of thumping…
China, Russia welcome Korean peace efforts with diplomacy in overdrive
“China and Russia agreed to continue cooperation to uphold the … working talks soon to work out details for the inter-Korean summit. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong…
Is Beijing planning to take Taiwan back … by force?
Beijing is turning preliminary policy proposals addressing the Taiwan issue into specific tactics that could pave the way for a forcible seizure of the self-ruled island, although the mainland has no timetable for such a…
China, Russia welcome Korean peace drive: South Korean envoy
SEOUL (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for South Korea’s initiative to nurture peaceful engagement with North Korea, and Russia also expressed support, the South Korean official leading diplomatic efforts said on Thursday.…
China tells Vatican it’s fighting illegal organ transplants
provided the data as part of China’s yearslong effort to convince the international medical community that it no longer harvests organs from executed prisoners. At a news conference Wednesday, he reaffirmed that the organ harvesting…
China tells Vatican of crackdown on underground transplants
provided the data as part of China’s years-long effort to convince the international medical community that it no longer harvests organs from executed prisoners. At a news conference Wednesday, he reaffirmed that the organ harvesting…
Beijing’s new Taiwan policies reveal its plans for greater integration
On February 28, the Taiwan Office under China’s State Council published 31 new policies on Taiwan. These include preferential treatment for the island’s firms in investment, technological and cooperative ventures with mainland counterparts, and 19…
U.S. pressing China to cut trade surplus by $100 billion: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is pressing China to cut its trade surplus with the United States by $100 billion, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday, clarifying a tweet last week from President…
Asian shares, dollar fall as U.S. trade fears eclipse strong China data
“A U.S.-China trade war is the main risk.” Investors suspect policymakers who favor protectionism will also seek to use the currency as a trade weapon, if not overtly then through benign neglect. As news from…
China muscles into a new Great Game in Red Sea
“Globalization has created a Chinese monster,” the Washington-based online journal Foreign Policy warned. The announcement on China’s official news agency Xinhua that the Communist Party’s Central Committee recommended scrapping a two-term limit on the ……
Exclusive: China may pare back ‘divisive’ eastern Europe summits
BERLIN/BRUSSELS/SOFIA (Reuters) – China is considering paring back annual summits with eastern European countries that have fueled concerns in western capitals that Beijing is seeking to divide the continent, according to three European diplomats. (…
In China, an eye-roll goes viral, censors put a lid on it
Yicai financial news service reporter Liang Xiangyi sighed and raised a sceptical eyebrow at another journalist’s query to a delegate at a National People’s Congress press event Tuesday. As the question about China’s Belt and…
