Category: China
Sweden ex-envoy faces verdict in China dissident case
Judges will give a verdict on Friday in the trial of Sweden’s former ambassador to Beijing, accused of overstepping her mandate by trying to negotiate the release of a [...]
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US sanctions highest ranking Chinese official yet over Uighur rights
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on the highest ranking Chinese official yet targeted over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, a [...]
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US invites China to arms control talks, seeing opening
The United States on Thursday again invited China to talks on arms control, saying it saw an opening with Beijing on three-way negotiations with Russia despite intense [...]
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Top Chinese diplomats give conciliatory signals while demanding respect from the US
China’s top two foreign ministers kept to a conciliatory tone this week in public remarks about relations with the US, amid increasingly fraught tensions between the [...]
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China vows to ban US officials who ‘act abominably’ over Tibet
China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it would respond to a US travel ban on officials accused of limiting access to Tibet with similar curbs. US Secretary of [...]
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Chinese-American scientist’s world upended after he is swept up in US national security net
When six FBI agents knocked on Li Xiao-Jiang’s suburban Atlanta home last November, he knew that his life built around 23 years as a top neuroscientist at Emory [...]
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Serbian military gets reconnaissance drones and missiles from China
Serbia has received a shipment of Chinese-made reconnaissance drones and missiles, Beijing’s first arms deal with a European country as its military technology advances [...]
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Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) said it has entered into a strategic partnership with the People’s Bank of China to speed up the research and development [...]
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US, China should reconcile and make 3 lists, says Foreign minister Wang Yi
Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi has called for reconciliation between China and the United States, following months of escalating confrontations between the two that have [...]
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China’s June producer prices fall 3.0pct y/y, CPI +2.5pct
China’s June factory gate prices fell in annual terms for the fifth consecutive month but at a slower-than-expected rate, official data showed on Thursday, reflecting [...]
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It pays to have China exposure, even during two years of the trade war, MSCI index shows
Companies with the biggest business exposure to China appear to have weathered the US-China trade war far better than those that have avoided the Chinese market, as the spat [...]
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Google reportedly abandoned a cloud computing product for the Chinese market
Google has abandoned plans to develop and launch a cloud computing product designed for the Chinese market, among other politically controversial countries, according to a [...]
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China’s Great Firewall descends on HK internet users
At midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country’s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong. Unveiling expanded police [...]
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Hang Seng Bank CEO to receive medical treatment for unspecified illness, but will continue to perform duties, lender says
Hang Seng Bank said on Wednesday that Louisa Cheang Wai-wan, its vice-chair and chief executive, is to receive medical attention, but will still be able to perform her [...]
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China to build 6-8 nuclear reactors a year from 2020-2025 report
China will build six to eight nuclear reactors a year between 2020 and 2025 and raise total capacity to 70 gigawatts (GW), up 43.5 percent compared to the end of May, the [...]
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