Archive for June 17th, 2019
S. Korea, Sweden sign MOUs on trade, economic cooperation
South Korea and Sweden have signed six memorandums of understandings (MOUs) to expand trade and cooperation in emerging industries, the government said Saturday. The MOUs [...] » More
Jurors listen to suspect say he killed scholar from China
Jurors in a federal death-penalty trial heard secretly recorded audio Friday in which a former University of Illinois doctoral student describes to his girlfriend how he [...] » More
UN official accused of legitimising China’s detention of Uighur Muslims by visiting Xinjiang province
A visit by the UN’s counterterrorism chief to China’s western Xinjiang region has sparked outrage from human rights groups who say it legitimises Beijing’s [...] » More
Why Nintendo, Google and others may want to move some manufacturing out of China
China has long been the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. It has the suppliers, the assembly lines, the workers, the expertise. Companies, particularly technology [...] » More
Chinese state media urges retribution after UBS economist’s ‘insult’
Those who insult Chinese people should pay the price in order to deter would-be offenders from following suit, Chinese state media said in a sharply worded commentary, after [...] » More
UN counter-terror tsar visits Xinjiang where Uighurs held in huge numbers
Activists say official visit risks affirming China’s narrative that camps thought to hold a million people are not an abuse of human rights The UN’s [...] » More
Chinese child defecates on bus, causing social media stink
Social media users in China are divided over the merits of toilet training after a video was posted online showing an elderly couple pulling out a potty on a Beijing bus so [...] » More
China’s African swine fever epidemic drives down American milk prices
African swine fever’s annihilation of China’s hog population is driving down the global prices of the various products used to make hog feedincluding milk. And [...] » More
China denies hit and run as pressure builds on Duterte to speak up
China has rejected Philippine allegations that a Chinese fishing vessel abandoned 22 Filipinos after it sank their boat in the South China Sea, as pressure builds on [...] » More
US, others object to UN counterterrorism chief visit to China’s Xinjiang
The United States and other western countries have objected to a visit by the United Nations counterterrorism chief to China’s remote Xinjiang, where UN experts say [...] » More
Chinese securities organisation blacklists UBS banker who made ‘pig’ remarks seen as offensive
The Securities Association of China has blacklisted Paul Donovan, a chief economist at the Swiss investment bank UBS, as “persona non grata” after he sparked an [...] » More
The Latest: China summons US envoy over HK criticism
The Latest on the Hong Kong extradition bill and protests (all times local): 8:20 p.m. China has summoned a US envoy in Beijing to protest what it calls “irresponsible [...] » More
US unhappy about UN counterterror envoy’s Xinjiang visit
The United States on Friday lodged a protest with the United Nations over what it called a “highly inappropriate” visit by its counterterrorism czar to [...] » More
Commentary: Duterte’s deafening silence on Chinese harassment
The denial of entry of former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales into Hong Kong almost a month ago seems to be a legitimate exercise of China’s sovereignty to impose [...] » More
US has ‘deep concerns’ about UN official’s trip to China
The US government expressed deep concerns to the UN about a reported trip by the UN counterterrorism chief to the restive Xinjiang region in China’s far west. Deputy [...] » More
