Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 20, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fa...
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Hong Kong’s ‘Patriots’ Select Former Security Chief As City’s Leader
John Lee, the former security chief who oversaw the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2019, was elected unopposed as Hong Kong’s new leader on Sunday. Lee garnered 1,416 votes in his...
Hong Kong’s Single-Candidate Election To Anoint Former Policeman As City’s New Leader
John Lee is due to be formally selected as Hong Kong’s new leader on Sunday in an election that features only one candidate. It’s the first election for the city’s top job since Beijing passed legisla...
China’s Xi Jinping calls for sticking to zero-Covid policy
Xi Jinping seen giving a speech during the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in Fuyang on July 1, 2021. From a political perspective, 2022 is a particularly critical year for C...
China’s U.S. Ambassador Talks Pew Poll, Trade, Air Travel: Exclusive Interview
Qin Gang, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. since July 2021. Forbes The Pew Research Organization unveiled a poll last Thursday saying 82% of Americans have an unfavorable view of China, a record high an...
Is China In Decline?
TOPSHOT – A picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a large screen during a Cultural … [+] Performance as part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the...
China sticks to Covid controls, Beijing luxury mall closes
Major luxury goods mall Beijing SKP, pictured here in 2021, said Friday it would close — with no reopening date specified — after the city confirmed three Covid cases in an apartment community nearby....
Is China Juicing GDP Data? Economists Can’t Help But Wonder
Security guards wear protective clothing as office workers queue for Covid-19 nucleic acid tests at a makeshift testing site on April 28, 2022 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images It’s both th...
China Stocks Fall Anew; Pandemic Stirs Growth Worries, Thins Billionaire Ranks
A pedestrian walks past the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai in 2020. (Photo by HECTOR … [+] RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Bellwether China stocks fell anew in the U.S. t...
China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Crackdown Threatens Global Economy
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 16th G20 Leaders’ Summit via video link in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 31, 2021. Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via Getty Images When Group of 20 officials meet t...
Globalization isn’t over, just don’t invest in countries run by despots
Kyle BassThe Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine is not a death knell for globalization but should be a wake-up call about the risks of investing in countries that aren’t democracies, ...
China Owes Federal Reserve For Saving 5.5% Growth Target
Xi Jinping greets the media at the Great Hall of the People on November 15, 2012 in Beijing, China. Feng Li/Getty Images As Jerome Powell threatens to pick up the pace of tightening, Xi Jinping’s Chin...
China plane crash ‘unprecedented’ given good safety record: Analyst
For an aircraft like China Eastern‘s Boeing 737-800 to crash in midflight is “simply unprecedented,” said one aviation analyst who cited the plane’s excellent safety record. &#...
No reports yet of bodies or survivors
BEIJING — No bodies or survivors have yet been found from the China Eastern Airlines crash as of Tuesday morning, Chinese state media said. The domestic flight on a Boeing 737-800, which was carrying ...
China sticks to zero Covid, managing outbreak one local city at a time
A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects a truck entering JD.com’s logistics park in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING ...
Putin’s Gamble In Ukraine Is Xi’s Pot To Win
On October 6, 1973, a coalition of Arab states armed with Soviet weaponry launched a surprise invasion of Israel during Yom Kippur, a Jewish holy day. The U.S. and the Netherlands, among other countri...
China watches as Ukraine war makes U.S., EU and Japan show unity
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting during the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit in Brasilia on November 14, 2019. Pavel Golo...
China Sets Slowest GDP Growth Target In More Than 30 Years As Challenges Mount
A woman wearing a face mask walks near the CCTV building at the international trade area of Beijing. … [+] SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images China aims to grow its economy by around 5.5% ...
Here’s how Chinese media is covering Ukraine
The Shanghai branch of the Communist Party newspaper, People’s Daily, on Feb. 27, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — In China, tightly controlled coverage of Ru...
Soros Casts Shade On China’s Economy In Most Tantalizing Way
George Soros delivers a speech on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on … [+] January 23, 2020 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images In...
Xi calls for more tech laws, signals more regulation ahead
The Great Hall of the People is seen after the closing meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 11, 2021 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | ...
Global investors buy more mainland Chinese stocks
A public screen displays the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Hang Seng Index figures in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — International investor...
Goldman, Bernstein, BlackRock are bullish on China stocks
A men wearing a mask walk at the Shanghai Stock Exchange building at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 3, 2020. Aly ...
Leadership of China’s Xi threatened by Covid, real-estate crisis
George Soros, billionaire founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping&#...
Weaponizing Global Supply Chains Is Unlikely To Alter China’s Uyghur Human Rights Regime
Muslim Uyghur boys walking past a statue of Mao Zedong facing Renmin (People’s) Square in Kashgar, … [+] in northwest China’s Xinjiang Province. AFP via Getty Images Sovereigns’ impo...
China’s Top Property Tycoons See Fortunes Drop $30 Billion With Even More Losses Expected
Hui Ka Yan, Yang Huiyan and Sun Hongbin have all seen their fortunes tumble this year. Bloomberg The days of property moguls dominating China’s wealth rankings appear to be at an end. Beijing’s campai...
China Risks Going To Economic Hero To ‘Zero’ In 2022
Staff members line up at attention as they prepare to spray disinfectant at Wuhan Railway Station in … [+] Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on March 24, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Imag...
Tencent’s Pony Ma Vows To Serve The Country Amid Government’s Tech Crackdown
Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, attends a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on March 21, … [+] 2019. Justin Chin/Bloomberg Low-profile tech billionaire Pony Ma has issued another ple...
Goldman cuts China GDP for 2022 amid lockdowns, omicron
Traffic police and epidemic prevention personnel work together to check vehicles at a highway entrance in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, China, on the afternoon of January 8, 2022. Costfoto...