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China Coronavirus is at Center of Hong Kong Protests

Mary Hui reports: Hong Kong’s leader has given another reason for people to be angry. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across China and worldwide, with the number of confirmed cases growing at a rapid rate, Hong Kong is bracing [...]

Beijing is Manufacturing the Circumstances to Justify Brutal Intervention in Hong Kong

Michael Shoebridge reports: Scenes of protesters with sticks chasing police through Hong Kong streets and police officers pulling out their guns and pointing them at protesters show that the Hong Kong authorities are losing control of the city. [...]

Worried Hong Kong Residents Are Moving Money Out as Protests Escalate

The local currency has weakened rapidly since early July, a move analysts attribute partly to outflows. Steven Russolillo, Joanne Chiu and Eli Binder report: Money is leaking out of Hong Kong as months of protests raise concerns about the [...]

Hong Kong protests: Chaos as Activists Occupy Terminal

Another day of pro-democracy protests has been held at Hong Kong International Airport, leading to flight disruptions and violent clashes between demonstrators and police. Travellers arriving at the airport – one of the world’s busiest [...]

‘Prepared to Die’: Hong Kong Protesters Embrace Hard-Core Tactics, Challenge Beijing

The resistance, which has mainstream support, is the biggest rebellion against China’s government since President Xi took power. Natasha Khan and Wenxin Fan report: This summer, the civil servant, who is in her 20s, has zip tied metal barriers [...]

CNN Parent Company Sued for $50 Million By Chinese Billionaire Claiming Defamation

Ashley Cullins reports: A Chinese billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member is suing WarnerMedia over a CNN segment that he claims falsely implies he committed espionage and was on the verge of being deported. Guo Wengui, who’s known as Miles Kwok in [...]

A Woman Chugged an Entire Bottle of Cognac Rather than Give It to Airport Security

Miss Zhao, International Folk Hero Alex Swerdloff reports: This Chinese woman was stopped in Beijing for having a bottle of Cognac in her carry-on. What else could she do but pound the entire bottle on the spot? But then, of course, she [...]

Shakespeare’s Homes to be Recreated in … China?

No need to travel to England to see Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Shakespeare’s New Place as the two homes will be recreated in the People’s Republic of China. Under an exclusive cooperation agreement signed today, 28 September, by the [...]

Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

United Front Work Department conducts aggressive influence operations in U.S. Bill Gertz reports: China’s Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing [...]

Google’s Ambitions for China Could Trigger a Crisis Inside the Company

Employees are in the dark — and they’re furious Casey Newton reports: On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives for answers about the company’s [...]

Fight Breaks Out at Shanghai Disneyland After Kid Allegedly Touches Woman’s Butt

Recently, a bit of a fight broke out amid the festive chaos at Mickey Mouse’s house in Pudong, apparently after an 8-year-old kid touched a woman’s butt. According to eyewitnesses, after the alleged butt-touching took place, the woman started to [...]

China Moving Slowly into Hokkaido

Chinese money is pouring into Hokkaido at a much greater scale than imagined. In his recent visit to the island prefecture, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended a forum of Japanese prefectural and Chinese provincial governors in Sapporo on May 11, [...]

Japan and China Agree on Mechanism to Avoid Armed Skirmishes

‘Sea of peace’ at hand but Japanese defense officials have doubts over agreement TOKYO — Oki Nagai and Masaya Kato report: In a move aimed at preventing accidental military clashes, Japan and China have agreed to implement a [...]

Black Mirror, Realized: China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’

BEIJING (CBSNewYork) — China is rolling out a high-tech plan to give all of its 1.4 billion citizens a personal score, based on how they behave. But there are consequences if a score gets too low, and for some that’s cause for concern, CBS2’s [...]

China’s Xi Renews Vow to Open Economy, Cut Tariffs as U.S. Trade Row Deepens

BOAO/BEIJING, China (Reuters) – Kevin Yao reports: Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country’s economy further and lower import tariffs on products like cars, in a speech seen as an attempt to defuse an [...]

China Bans Exports to North Korea of Weapons-Related Goods

BEIJING – China has banned exports to North Korea of electronics and other goods that can be used in making weapons, tightening U.N. sanctions imposed over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development. The ban covers “dual use” industrial [...]

China Slippity-Slaps Tariffs On U.S. in Trade Dispute; Duties Up to 25%, Target 128 Products

BEIJING (Reuters) — China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, wine and certain fruits and nuts, escalating a spat between the world’s biggest economies in response to U.S. duties on imports of [...]

Asian Powers Step Up Their Readiness For Space Warfare, Following America’s Lead

As Asian societies step up and out into space, American thinking, actions, and leadership stand to profoundly affect the security and stability of their ventures. Today, there is renewed interest in the idea of creating an American space force [...]

U.S., China Quietly Seek Trade Solutions After Days of Loud Threats

Wide-ranging discussions aimed at widening market access follow Washington’s vow to use tariffs, which sent U.S. stocks sharply lower. Lingling Wei & Bob Davis report: China and the U.S. have quietly started negotiating to improve U.S. [...]

Why China Loves American Chain Restaurants So Much

Clarissa Wei writes: The highest Pizza Hut in the world is perched on the 24th floor of a skyscraper in Xiamen, a city (population: 3.5 million) in the Chinese province of Fujian. There’s often a wait for seats; calling in for reservations is [...]

China’s President Warns Against ‘Disunity’, Vows to ‘Integrate’ Hong Kong

China on Tuesday warned that any attempts to to break up the country would be “doomed to failure,” in an apparent warning to independence activists in Hong Kong, as rights groups hit out at moves to make the city more patriotic. In a [...]

Xi’s Power Grab Shatters Hope for Liberalization of China

Xi is now poised to rule for as long as he wants as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. BEIJING (AP) — When American scholar Orville Schell first visited China in 1975, Mao Zedong was leading the country through the tumultuous Cultural [...]

China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe

SHANGHAI — Paul Mozur reports: Within its digital borders, China has long censored what its people read and say online. Now, it is increasingly going beyond its own online realms to police what people and companies are saying about it all over [...]

Michael Auslin: President Xi’s power grab will have global repercussions

Michael Auslin writes: President Xi Jinping’s second term was meant to come to an end in 2023. However, the news that the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee has moved to eliminate the constitution’s two-term limit for presidents [...]

China Paves way for Xi Jinping to Extend Rule Beyond 2 Terms

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has proposed scrapping term limits for the country’s president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023. [...]

In Sanlitun Soho, a commercial and office complex in Beijing, a giant electronic billboard displays this message from the Chinese Communist Party: “The people have faith. The nation has hope. The state has strength.” Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

The Propaganda I See on My Morning Commute

BEIJING — JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ writes: People joke that it’s now easier in many Chinese cities to use Communist Party slogans rather than street names to give directions. Looking for a bank in Downtown Beijing? Walk past the screen [...]

Surveillance State: How China Uses Technology to Curtail Freedom

Xi Jinping’s socialist-capitalist model is little more than an autocracy relying on technology to curtail civil liberty and economic freedom. Therese Shaheen writes: In early January, the Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the [...]

China Box Office Expands by $2 Billion to Hit $8.6 Billion in 2017

Imported and local titles shared the bounty as China’s box office grew by 14% in local currency terms in 2017. In U.S. dollar terms the gain was increased to 30%, and shows China continuing as the main prop of global box office expansion. Data [...]