Archive for August 24th, 2020
Exclusive: TikTok to challenge US order banning transactions with the video app sources
TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app [...] » More
Xpeng seeks to raise up to $1.1 billion in New York IPO as electric car maker prepares to challenge Tesla in China
Xpeng is seeking to raise up to $1.1 billion from its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, as it gears up to challenge Tesla in China, the world’s [...] » More
US-China relations: Joe Biden vows to end America’s reliance on Chinese medical equipment
American Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to end the United States’ reliance on China and other countries for medical equipment should he be [...] » More
China’s newfound intimacy with once-rival Russia is proving a strategic blind spot for Australia
China didn’t feature prominently in prime minister Scott Morrison’s speech last month to announce Australia’s $270 billion defence update, but it was clear [...] » More
China may want to displace the dollar with the yuan as the global reserve currency, but its actions are leading to the opposite.
If some stories are easier to tell than others, the decline of the US dollar as a reserve currency is one of them. It’s not hard to see why. The cast of characters that [...] » More
Chinese biotech CStone on course to launch lung cancer drug after successful clinical trial
Competition in the fast-growing but increasingly crowded cancer immunotherapy market is heating up, with Shanghai-based CStone Pharmaceuticals aiming to seek approval by the [...] » More
Chinese Communist Party critic Xu Zhangrun offered Harvard University research post
A law professor who lost his job at one of China’s top universities after his fierce criticism of the Communist Party has been offered a research position at Harvard [...] » More
US-China trade talks opportunity for Beijing to ‘negotiate and manage’ growing hostilities
China is expected to use the upcoming trade talks with the United States as a chance to prevent, or at least slow, a full-fledged confrontation erupting between the [...] » More
China reports 22 coronavirus cases, sixth day without local transmission
China reported 22 cases of the new coronavirus in the mainland for August 21, same as a day earlier, the health commission said on Saturday. All 22 new infections were [...] » More
Coronavirus: Peru and Morocco to start phase 3 trials of two Chinese vaccine hopefuls
Two Covid-19 vaccine candidates developed by state-owned China National Biotec Group have been approved for phase 3 trials in Peru and Morocco. Agreements with the two [...] » More
China-EU special summit to have trade focus, as US election looms
Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a video summit with some European Union leaders in mid-September that is set to put trade in the spotlight just weeks before the US [...] » More
Argentina joins Chinese coronavirus vaccine trial, maker says
Argentina joined Peru, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates in approving Phase 3 clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine developed by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), [...] » More
‘A darkness worse than the virus’: why a Chinese former prosecutor chose to harbour a dissident
Lawyer Yang Bin paid a heavy price for sheltering prominent Chinese civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong in her house for a week. Since Xu was taken away by police from her home [...] » More
US tries to pick up pace in developing 5G alternative to Huawei
As the Trump administration cracks down harder on Huawei Technologies in efforts to keep Chinese equipment out of US communications networks, the race to develop a [...] » More
Coronavirus: China lockdowns lead to big dip in NO2 but air pollution stays steady, study finds
Severe epidemic lockdowns imposed across China in February led to a “striking” drop in nitrogen dioxide, but other pollutants remained at roughly the same levels, [...] » More
