Tag: China

CHINA/CARBON NEUTRALITY – Assessing China’s Prospects for Carbon Neutrality (Xu Han, Sebastian Lewis, Shaun Roache, Project-Syndicate)

China’s aim to become carbon neutral by 2060 is a global game-changer, and neatly dovetails with the goal of rebalancing its economy toward consumption....

CHINA/USA – China slaps visa curbs on US diplomats, NGOs visiting HK, Macau (Al Jazeera)

China has announced that it is revoking visa exemptions for US diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau, after the United States imposed...

SWITZERLAND/CHINA – Secretive Switzerland-China immigration deal fuels concern (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

Switzerland gave Chinese security agents free run inside its borders and the rest of Europe for five years as part of a secretive immigration...

CANADA/CHINA – Two Canadians in China have ‘not yet gone on trial’, Canada says (Al Jazeera)

Canada said it has confirmed with Chinese officials that detained citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were picked up in December 2018 shortly...

TRANSATLANTIC/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY – A Transatlantic Effort to Take on China Starts with Technology (Alina Polyakova, Eileen Donahoe, CEPA)

https://cepa.org/a-transatlantic-effort-to-take-on-china-starts-with-technology/

CHINA – Social cohesion boosts rural China’s COVID-19 response (Xiao Tan, Mark Yaoling Wang, Yao Song, Tianyang Liu, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/09/social-cohesion-boosts-rural-chinas-covid-19-response/

CHINA/UIGHUR – China uses big data to select Muslims for arrest in Xinjiang: HRW (Al Jazeera)

A big-data program in China’s Xinjiang “arbitrarily selects” Muslims for detention, flagging behaviour such as wearing a veil, studying the Quran or going on...

CHINA – Seeking balance between fintech innovation and regulation in China (Yang Ji, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/09/seeking-balance-between-fintech-innovation-and-regulation-in-china/

CANADA/CHINA – Kovrig, Spavor ‘strong’ after two-year China detention: Canada (Al Jazeera)

Two Canadian men who have been detained by China for more than two years, in what Canada sees as retribution for its arrest of...

USA/CHINA/UIGHUR – Intel, Nvidia probed over tech allegedly used against Uighurs (Al Jazeera)

United States Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Jim McGovern on Tuesday sent letters to Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp seeking information on...

CHINA/USA – Encircling China is arduous and thankless for the US (Global Times)

Sailors wearing Mission-Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gears conduct chemical decontamination aboard the guided-missile destroyer Chengdu (Hull 120) during a 3-day maritime training exercise from...

JAPAN/FRANCE/USA/UK/CHINA- Japan, France, US, UK make hypocritical naval moves against China (Zhang Junshe, Global Times)

The guided-missile frigate Yulin (Hull 569) attached to a destroyer flotilla with the navy under the PLA Southern Theater Command fires its rocket-propelled depth...

CHINA/AUSTRALIA – Australian coal workers to suffer economic pain, more acutely (Global Times)

Photo: Xinhua Recent market attention over whether coal will be the next commodity to be impacted by the precipitating deterioration of China-Australia relations is understandable....

USA/CHINA – Is the gap between US, Chinese internet service companies narrowing? (Gao Rui, Global Times)

File photo A major transition the coronavirus pandemic has brought to the world in 2020 is "to go online." While transforming people's lifestyle, the shift...

CHINA – China Stakes Its Claim to Quantum Supremacy (OODA)

https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2020/12/07/china-stakes-its-claim-to-quantum-supremacy/

CHINA – A China Strategy (Edward Lucas, CEPA)

In an era of geopolitical competition, the West — the U.S.-led countries of the transatlantic alliance and their East Asian allies — lacks a...