Category: China
China mutes volume on Thousand Talents Plan as US spy concerns rise but scientists still covet funding
Australian quantum physicist Tim Byrnes happily accepted a faculty post to work in China about five years ago, swapping the barbecue for dumplings. But for someone whose work [...]
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Chinese brothers bought drugs from cancer patients to sell on the street
Chinese brothers bought drugs from cancer patients to sell on the street Ten people have been arrested in east China on suspicion of buying drugs prescribed by hospital [...]
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China launches rover for first far side of the moon landing
China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing’s ambitions to become a space superpower, [...]
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Huawei dominates high-level Australia-China talks led by Howard
The Huawei controversy dominated a high-level meeting in Beijing between Australia and China, in the wake of the dramatic arrest of Huawei executive heiress Meng Wanzhou. [...]
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Explained: how the US uses anticorruption laws and sanctions to police the world
The conviction of former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho in a New York court and the detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Canada have [...]
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Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou fraudulently represented company to skirt US and EU sanctions on Iran, court told in bail hearing
Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, fraudulently represented the company in order to get around US and [...]
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US accuses Huawei CFO of Iran sanctions cover-up; hearing adjourned
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer faces US accusations that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran [...]
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Extreme cold weather turns hot water into ice in China
Rare ice fog gripped the Chinese city of Mohe in the north of the country after temperatures plunged to a bitter -43.5C on December 6, according to Chinese media. The Mohe [...]
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Huawei exec faces US fraud charges linked to Iran
Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s chief financial officer faces US fraud charges related to sanctions-breaking business dealings with Iran, a Canadian court heard Friday, [...]
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China export growth slows in November: customs data
China’s export growth slowed last month weighed down by trade tensions with the United States, official data released Saturday showed. Exports rose 5.4 percent for [...]
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The Latest: Huawei awaits ‘right conclusion’ in CFO’s arrest
The Latest on the arrest of an executive of Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies (all times local): 11:45 p.m. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei says it [...]
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Chinese state media says U.S. trying to ‘stifle’ Huawei with arrest
The United States is trying to “stifle” Chinese technology company Huawei and curb its global expansion with the arrest of a top executive, Chinese state media said on [...]
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China’s ‘nationalist bubble’ partly to blame for suspicions over global role, envoy to US concedes
Nationalism and the Chinese media are just as much to blame for exaggerated perceptions of the country’s geopolitical strength as the imagination of foreign observers, [...]
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Huawei in spy row as top executive arrested and BT removes equipment
The world’s second biggest smartphone maker Huawei, is at the centre of a spying and trade dispute after a top executive was arrested in Canada, and BT removed 4G [...]
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China, N Korea meet amid stalled disarmament talks
The foreign ministers of China and North Korea held talks in Beijing Friday amid a lack of progress in international efforts to persuade Kim Jong Un’s regime to halt [...]
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