Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at SupChina. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a speech on the anniversary of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, AKA the Korean War. Xi did not go lightly on the “Resist U.S. Aggression” part of the message.
Even if the Trump administration, which initiated the more pro-Taiwan policy in recent months, is succeeded soon by a Biden administration, Joe Biden seems on the same page regarding Taiwan.
Trump International Hotels Management paid over $180,000 in taxes to the Chinese government from a local bank account from 2013 to 2015, and Trump himself has benefited financially from Chinese business connections in more recent years, the New York Times reported.
Ninebot, the Chinese electric-scooter company that owns Segway, has become the first company to sell Chinese depository receipts (CDRs) at the Shanghai STAR market. Is this the start of a true Chinese competitor to Nasdaq?
If the U.S. continues its prosecutions of Chinese nationals for allegedly hiding their military affiliations, Beijing may begin to detain Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Ant Group’s listing in Hong Kong likely won’t be completed by the end of October, as originally hoped, due to scrutiny from Chinese regulators. The IPO is unlikely to be derailed, but Ant could soon be the target of largely symbolic sanctions by the Trump administration.
On the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Chinese leader Xi Jinping praised the city as a model for its economic achievements and adherence “to the Party’s leadership.”
China’s imports and exports both surged in September compared with a year before, indicating a continued strong recovery for the Chinese market. Economists surveyed expect Q3 growth to top 5%, nearing 2019 levels.
A small COVID-19 cluster has emerged in Qingdao, China, breaking the country’s nearly two-month streak of no locally transmitted symptomatic cases. All nine million Qingdao residents will be screened for the virus this week in response.
Filling yet another void in global leadership left by President Trump, China said that it had joined COVAX, the World Health Organization–backed program to fund and coordinate the equitable global distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.