Trump’s ‘best people’ bicker, as China approves business deals with the U.S.
What happens when you put the guy who wrote a book…
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China’s ‘re-education camps’ for Muslims expand, echo Cultural Revolution
The evidence of a campaign to “re-educate” tens, or even hundreds…
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Trump’s Indonesian partner denies Chinese loans
In the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, an Indonesian billionaire…
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Money to follow MSCI into Chinese stock markets
In June of last year, MSCI (formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International),…
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The futility of American whining about China
China is less of a “free rider” today on U.S.-led international systems than ever before, but American “whining” about…
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Trump tears up the Iran nuclear deal: How will China act?
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, May 8, that he is unilaterally “terminating” American involvement in…
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Missile deployment: ‘China is now unambiguously militarizing the Spratlys’
Yesterday, we noted a Financial Times report that suggested this will be a “testing year” for U.S.-China relations,…
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Beijing gets friendly with the Koreas, Chinese consumers follow
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is in Pyongyang today, on a…
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Xi to Modi: Let’s work together for the ‘revival of Eastern civilization’
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “informal” summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi began in Wuhan on April 27. Here’s the…
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China’s tech war with the U.S. heats up as Xi urges self-reliance
If it’s imported from the U.S. and has electric wires in…
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Rampant sexist job ads in China ‘do not reflect our values,’ say apologetic tech companies
On April 23, Human Rights Watch released a bombshell report exposing widespread sexism in job ads from…
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India and China aim to ‘properly settle disputes’ with a bilateral summit. Will it work?
It has not been an easy year for India-China ties. Troops on a contested border had a months-long
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China’s biggest food delivery app buys China’s biggest on-demand bike service
Dianping.com is a Chinese restaurant review website that was founded in 2003, a year before Yelp was started, and…
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Are China’s drug price controls failing?
Last year, regulators in China began an ambitious program to reduce the cost of drugs in the country: A…
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China fires back in trade war with Trump, but global face-off in tech is just getting started
China has done away with its tentative approach to combating U.S. President Donald Trump on trade, and issued a full…
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