He posts these short clips to an app called Kuaishou, the biggest rival in China to ByteDance, which owns TikTok and its Chinese sister app Douyin. Mr Gu’s charms have won him 74,000 fans, and…
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China oil futures hit record levels
Activity in China’s oil futures market has risen to record levels as the country seeks to develop the role of its currency in a trade dominated by the US dollar. Open interest in oil futures…
HSBC must show moral backbone over China
Companies have no consciences. Their only job is to maximise shareholder returns within the law. That argument has simplicity (and convenience). Elements of it featured last week when members of the … ( read original…
How China is racing to collect Americans’ DNA
U.S. officials say the Chinese government is trying to collect Americans’ DNA, and they believe a recent offer from a Chinese company for assistance in COVID-19 testing was suspicious. Jon Wertheim … ( read original…
Long queues in Beijing as mass testing launched to stem virus outbreak
Long queues form in Beijing for virus testing as China’s capital kicks off a drive to test two million people in 48 hours. The city is rushing to snuff out a new local cluster of…
Biden shows his hawkish side on China
After months of Republican concern that Joe Biden would be soft on Beijing, the new US president received unexpected praise from a leading China hawk after less than two weeks in the White House. (…
U.S. Secretarty of Health and Human Services Leavitt visits juice plant in Beijing
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, ‘toasts’ with Zhu Xinli, chairman of Beijing Huiyuan Beverage & Fruit Group Corporation, during a news conference at the Beijing Huiyuan Beverage & Fruit … ( read original…
Chinese Walk Past a McDonald’s in Beijing, China
Chinese walk past a McDonald’s in downtown Beijing on Sunday, January 31, 2021. China is set to have the biggest number of obese children by 2030, in large part due to the growth of fast…
The Latest: China sees uptick in COVID-19 cases
BEIJING — China recorded more than 2,000 new domestic cases of COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly total since the tail end of the initial outbreak in Wuhan in March of last year. ( read…
Coronavirus: China records most monthly infections since March
China recorded more than 2,000 new domestic cases of COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly total since the tail end of the initial outbreak in Wuhan in March of last year. Most of the new…
Asia Today: China sees most monthly infections since March
China recorded more than 2,000 new domestic cases of COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly total since the tail end of the initial outbreak in Wuhan in March of … ( read original story …)
China’s factory recovery slows in January as COVID-19 returns
China’s factory activity grew at the slowest pace in five months in January, hit by a wave of domestic coronavirus infections, but still in line with the ongoing recovery in the world’s second-largest … (…
With one year to go, Beijing 2022 set to take cue from Tokyo 2020 over COVID-19 measures
The choice of Beijing as host city for the 2022 Olympics, made on July 31 2015 at the 128th International Olympic Committee Session in Kuala Lumpur, … ( read original story …)
