The Beijing Municipal Government has announced a 2-year metaverse innovation and development plan, which runs from 2022 to 2024. Accordingly, every district must follow the Web3 Innovation Plan propos...
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How much does it cost to travel full time? Here’s what one couple pays
Ernestas Tyminas felt “stuck” in his role as a marketing manager at a newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado. So he requested two months off to backpack through Asia, he said, landing in ...
U.S. Officials, Businesses Gearing Up For Continued Beijing Pressure On Taiwan
Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan’s … [+] southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Experts say a lot can be gleane...
China Declares Fresh Military Drills Around Taiwan After More U.S. Lawmakers Visit
Topline China on Monday announced plans to restart military drills around Taiwan in response to a U.S. Congressional delegation’s weekend visit to the island that Beijing considers part of its territo...
American Companies Escape China Sanctions Over Pelosi Visit: U.S.-China Forum
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations President Steve Orlins at the 4th U.S.-China Business … [+] Forum. Ethan Covey Photography When China was unhappy with South Korea over its decision to...
Curing Cancer Takes A Global Village: Cancer Moonshot Pathways
BeiGene CEO John Oyler BeiGene Note: President Joe Biden in February launched a “Cancer Moonshot” initiative that aims to reduce the death rate from cancer by 50% in the next 25 years. This is a part ...
Beijing Updates Taiwan Policy Rescinding Earlier Promise To Not Send Troops To Island
Topline The Chinese government has updated its official policy on Taiwan to remove an earlier commitment to allow the island to operate autonomously with its own government and systems in the event Ch...
China’s Problem Isn’t Nancy Pelosi —It’s Turning Japanese
A staff member counts yuan notes deposited by customers at a bank in Haian, East China’s Jiangsu Province, July 12, 2022. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Xi Jinping has a growing list o...
Reports Say Beijing Attacking Taiwan Could Lead to ‘Far-Reaching Economic Consequences’ – Coinotizia
While the global economy remains gloomy and the war in Ukraine continues, there’s been significant tension between China and Taiwan. The American representative from California, Nancy Pelosi, plans to...
Reports Say Beijing Attacking Taiwan Could Lead to ‘Far-Reaching Economic Consequences’ – Economics Bitcoin News
While the global economy remains gloomy and the war in Ukraine continues, there’s been significant tension between China and Taiwan. The American representative from California, Nancy Pelosi, plans to...
TikTok Owner ByteDance Looks to Manufacture Own Task-Specific Chips as Beijing Aspires to More Semiconductor Self-Reliance
ByteDance has joined a growing list of Chinese companies looking to establish their own internal production line of chips for varying uses. ByteDance is reportedly exploring the possibility of designi...
China’s Domestic Tourism Shrinks Amid Covid Lockdowns
The Great Wall of China has long been a popular tourist attraction in the country. (AP Photo/Ng Han … [+] Guan) Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. A global focus of China’...
China’s Second-Quarter GDP Growth Plunges To Less Than 1% On Covid Hit
Health workers in protective gear walk out from a cordoned area after spraying disinfectant in Shanghai’s Huangpu district on January 27, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images China’s economic growth s...
China Tech Stocks Fall After Beijing Fines Alibaba, Tencent
By Yifan Wang Shares of Chinese tech giants fell in Hong Kong on Monday, after Beijing fined some of the country’s largest internet companies for failing to make proper antitrust declarations on...
Soho China CFO Probed For Insider Trading; Shares Fall 2.8% In Hong Kong
Soho China CEO Zhang Xin, second from right, chats with guests at her newly opened Galaxy Soho … [+] building in Beijing in 2012. Galaxy Soho, a new office, retail and entertainment building, wa...
Beijing city to require Covid vaccinations for some public venues
Chinese cities like Beijing, pictured here on July 6, 2022, require negative virus tests from within the last 72 hours in order to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Im...
Biden Seems No More Able Than His Predecessors To Stop Beijing’s Technology Thefts
Chinese President Xi Jinping finds an object for laughter. (Photo by Matt Mills McKnight-Pool/Getty … [+] Images) Getty Images America and China have long had a contentious trade relationship. A...
Missing Chinese-Canadian Mogul Will Stand Trial In China, Embassy Says
Topline Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian mogul who was reportedly seized from Hong Kong with little explanation in 2017, is set to stand trial in China on Monday, Canada’s embassy in Beijing told Forb...
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi still awaits final ruling from Beijing, one year after it was put under cybersecurity review
Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is still waiting for a final ruling from Chinese authorities, one year after Beijing shocked the market by initiating an unprecedented cybersecurity investigation into ...
China’s economy didn’t bounce back in the second quarter, survey finds
China’s exports surged by 16.9% in May from a year ago, two times faster than analysts expected. Pictured here on June 15, 2022, are workers in Jiangsu province making stuffed toy bears for expo...
China cuts quarantine for overseas travelers, easing Covid controls
For more than two years, overseas travelers have had to quarantine upon arrival in China because of Covid restrictions. Pictured here at Beijing International Airport on June 18, 2022, are passengers ...
China’s 5.5% GDP Obsession Has $8 Trillion Dark Side
Chinese President Xi Jinping chairs the High-level Dialogue on Global Development via video link in Beijing, China, on June 24, 2022. Li Tao/Xinhua via Getty Images China is going to grow 5.5% this ye...
China Deletes Reference To Five Years Of “Zero-Covid” Policies In Beijing — CNN
Residents queue at a Covid-19 testing facility in Beijing on June 19, 2022. Source: Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Chinese censors deleted what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Comm...
F-star Surges 60% On $161 Mln Acquisition Offer By Chinese Billionaire Family’s Sino Biopharmaceutical
Gains in economic development and income have turned China into one of the world’s largest markets … [+] for pharmaceuticals and spawned home-grown industry heavyweights. (Photo by Kevin F...
China’s Reopening is No Blossoming of Energy Markets
A transit officer, wearing a protective gear, controls access to a tunnel in the direction of Pudong … [+] district in lockdown as a measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Shanghai on Marc...
China’s Unpredictability Is “Poisonous” For Its Business Environment, EU Chamber Says
A volunteer in protective gear fans himself with a paper printed with a health QR code at a COVID-19 … [+] testing site in Beijing, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ASSOCIATED PRESS U...
China real estate troubles sent debt indicator to record high
Fixed asset investment data for the first five months of 2022 showed real estate investment declined at a greater scale than it did during the first four months of the year. Pictured here on May 16 is...