Archive for April 16th, 2020
Coronavirus: China’s small firms see revenues tumble 70 per cent in March, survey shows
China’s small and medium-sized firms saw their income plunge nearly 70 per cent in March from a year earlier, with firms in the hospitality and education sectors [...] » More
China reports fewer coronavirus cases but infections from Russia a worry
China reported a decline in new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the mainland on Wednesday, but there was an increasing number of local transmissions in its far [...] » More
China buys more US farm products amid plunge in trade
China said Tuesday it bought twice as many US farm products in the first quarter than a year ago, in a sign the countries are following through with part of the phase one [...] » More
COVID-19 Slams West’s Nuke Carriers While China Signals Taiwan, Japan
Monday may have marked a turning point for how the Navy, and perhaps the Pentagon, is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions over how deeply it might cut into [...] » More
Coronavirus: Chinese students battle rising tide of prejudice in US but fear they may not be welcomed home
Yue Qu did not expect to be spending the end of his first year of college alone in his room on a deserted campus in California. But he had little choice. Despite booking [...] » More
William Hague: China must cooperate over source of Covid-19 outbreak
China must cooperate in creating a scientific consensus into the source of the coronavirus pandemic,William Hague has said, adding that the world is “hungry for the [...] » More
China Approves Trials For Two More Coronavirus Vaccines to Fight Pandemic
China has approved clinical trials for two more experimental vaccines to combat the novel coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, as the world’s scientists race to beat [...] » More
China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease [...] » More
China concealed the early coronavirus outbreak, former MI6 spymaster says
China concealed crucial information about the novel coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world and so should answer for its deceit, the former head of Britain’s [...] » More
Coronavirus: American Factory boss says pandemic will change China’s role in global supply chain
Cao Dewang, whose US automotive glass plant was featured in the award-winning documentary American Factory, says China’s role in the global supply chain could be [...] » More
China says difficulties facing trade cannot be underestimated
China’s trade showed some signs of recovery in March as domestic demand returns to normal, but difficulties facing foreign trade cannot be underestimated, the customs [...] » More
HNA Group halts trading of its note in Shanghai as a hasty plea for time caused panicking investors to flee its debt issues
HNA Group, a former asset acquirer that is trimming its loans under de facto state ward, halted the trading of one of its notes in Shanghai after panicked investors fled, as [...] » More
Intelligence officials weigh possibility coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab
Although the US intelligence community early on dismissed the notion that the coronavirus is a synthesized bioweapon, it is still weighing the possibility that the pandemic [...] » More
Economic havoc wreaked by coronavirus has likely throttled US-China trade deal, experts say
Covid-19 has likely rendered a historic “phase-one” US-China trade deal signed in January stillborn, and the need to address the economic devastation that the [...] » More
Chinese economy contracts for first time in decades: AFP survey
China’s economy contracted for the first time in around three decades in the first quarter as the coronavirus crisis brought the country to a standstill, according to [...] » More
