Scottish curler Eve Muirhead will enter fewer competitions in the run-up to the next Winter Olympics after playing in pain for several years. The Great Britain skip recently had surgery to help deal w… (…
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Malaysia stood up to China’s demands to hand over its persecuted Muslim prisoners, and Beijing is furious
Malaysia defied China in its attempts to persecute its Uighur Muslim ethnic minority, and Beijing is furious. The Muslim-majority, southeast Asian country on Thursday freed from detention 11 Uighurs w… ( read original story …)
China auto sales post biggest drop in 7 years as growth engine stalls
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s car sales fell the most in nearly seven years in September, stoking concerns the world’s biggest auto market could contract for the first time in decades this year … ( read…
China auto sales sink in September as economy cools
BEIJING — China’s auto sales plunged 12 per cent in September, adding to economic challenges for the country’s leaders amid a worsening tariff fight with Washington. Sales in the biggest global marke… ( read original…
China says in ‘communication’ amid report of Trump-Xi meet
BEIJING — China said Friday it is in contact with the United States amid reports of a planned meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump next month following a dive in the U.S.…
Door opens for UBS to take majority ownership of China JV
That would make it the first global investment bank to secure majority ownership since a surprise decision by China late last year to open the sector to foreign control. A UBS spokesman declined … (…
Japan’s Abe Pursues China Thaw as U.S-Beijing Ties in Deep Freeze
TOKYO — While U.S. President Donald Trump appears to wage a trade “Cold War” on China, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will promote a thaw with Beijing at a summit this month where business ties…
China trade surplus with U.S. widens to record $34.1B
BEIJING — China’s trade surplus with the United States widened to a record $34.1 billion in September as exports to the American market rose by 13 per cent over a year earlier despite a worsening…
China State Media Calls on U.S. to Avert ‘Full-Scale Face-Off’
China denounced Trump administration accusations of election-meddling as “Sinophobia” and urged the U.S. to steer the world’s two largest economies off their collision course. In a toughly worded comm… ( read original story …)
China, not Russia is the massive threat to watch, former FBI director says
“For all practical purposes, we are in an espionage war with China,” James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC told Fox News. “They use cyber-espionage, intell… ( read original…
Five Eyes intelligence alliance builds coalition to counter China
The five nations in the world’s leading intelligence-sharing network have been exchanging classified information on China’s foreign activities with other like-minded countries since the start of the y… ( read original story …)
China’s Xinjiang region legalizes Muslim internment camps
China’s regional government in Xinjiang has amended its laws … a scholar of Chinese ethnic policies at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, told the AP news agency. “It’s a new form of re-education that … (…
Beijing baffled by allegations involving alleged Chinese spy jailed in U.S.
China said Thursday that accusations against an alleged Chinese spy accused of attempting to steal trade secrets from American aviation and aerospace companies were “made out of thin air.” Yanjun Xu, … ( read original…
