Strong dollar might cause big changes: Caixin Media chairman
Xie Jinhe, chairman of Caixin Media, posted on Facebook on May 3 that with a strong dollar, there must be major events in the world. He said that the market preference for the U.S. currency would cause serious damage to vulnerable emerging economies. Besides, the global economy will certainly face ...
U.S.-China new battleground: China eyes global strategic choke point
The recently signed security agreement between the Solomon Islands and China has alarmed the US and its allies, bringing concerns about China's military facility in the Solomon Islands. US-China tensions over a strategic choke point in the South Pacific Islands are part of a new tug of war between the ...
The Chinese communist regime infiltrates Hollywood transforming the entertainment industry
The Chinese communist regime, like any authoritarian model, seeks to homogenize the way its citizens think and act. Therefore, everything must happen as designed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was the method used to perpetuate itself during the last decades. Western art, fashion, and ideals of freedom have always ...
The U.S. has provided Chinese firms with about $1.8 billion in subsidies
According to the watchdog Good Jobs First, which tracks companies receiving subsidies from the U.S., from 1991 to 2020, Chinese companies have received $1.8 billion from U.S. government bodies. The subsidies provided were tax credits, tax rebates, grants, loans, and property tax abatement. While most of the support came from the ...
Analyst warns: Southeast Asia and the United States are most severely infiltrated by Beijing
Recent studies by the United States and Taiwan show that China poses "unprecedented" espionage and cybersecurity dangers. According to the 'China Index' program by Taiwan-based research firm Doublethink Labs released on Monday, April 25, Southeast Asia is the region most impacted by Beijing's excessive influence. In an interview with CBS News on ...
Xi wants China’s growth to outpace U.S. despite strict lockdown: Report
According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants his country's economic growth to beat the U.S. growth this year. During meetings with economic and financial officials in recent weeks, Xi stressed the importance of growth and stability of China's economy to show that the Chinese political system is ...
Report: conditions for practicing faith went from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’ says State Department
New data shows following and worshiping the divine became much more dangerous in China. Part of the State Department recently slammed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) treatment of spiritual groups. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China revealed conditions for authorized and unauthorized beliefs went from "bad" to "worse" in 2021. It urged federal ...
17 new Chinese companies added to U.S. delisting list
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added 17 more U.S.-listed Chinese firms to its provisional delisting list under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act on Thursday, April 21. The Commission gave these companies 15 business days to submit evidence to prove that they are not eligible for delisting by the ...
U.S. Embassy extends services to help American citizens in China
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing will take charge to assist U.S. citizens in the Shanghai consular district after some of its employees have departed Shanghai. According to the statement on Monday, April 18, the U.S. Mission in China has adjusted operations to ensure urgent services for U.S. citizens. The Embassy said, "We ...
US and Japan reaffirm alliance amid China and North Korea concerns
U.S. lawmakers traveling to Japan on Saturday, April 16, reaffirmed a working alliance to jointly confront the threat posed by North Korea and China amid growing global tension. The six lawmakers, led by South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who agreed that they should ...
ESPN revealed in a recent report how the regime influences athletes’ silence
A recent report again demonstrates how the Chinese regime influences the silence of athletes by putting them under threat of being shut out of the huge Chinese market. A Thursday, April 14, an ESPN report detailed the consequences to the NBA-China business relationship. A tweet in which former Houston Rockets general ...
Apple assembler Pegatron halts production at 2 Chinese plants
Pegatron Corporation, Apple's second-largest iPhone foundry, said on Tuesday, April 12, that its plants in China's Shanghai and the neighboring city of Kunshan have suspended production to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. According to Nikkei Asia, Pegatron makes about 20% to 30% of Apple iPhones. On Monday, April 11, Shanghai loosened its lockdown ...
U.S. orders Consulate staff to leave Shanghai rather than voluntary departure
The U.S. State Department, on Tuesday, April 12, ordered the departure of all non-emergency Consulate staff and their families from Shanghai, citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the city. A U.S. statement published by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China Tuesday said, "The movement from 'authorized' to 'ordered' departure means ...
Tom Cotton demands explanation on decision to lift tariffs on Chinese goods
Following the announcement by Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative (USTR) of the Biden administration, on the elimination of Section 301 tariffs on more than 350 Chinese-made products imported into the United States, Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to the USTR requesting that they explain their decision. Cotton, in his ...
Ignoring its own record of human rights violations, the CCP accuses the US of ‘genocide’
The Chinese regime, considered the biggest violator of human rights, promotes through its propaganda arm, The People Daily, a video, which it describes as a "satirical play", where it accuses the United States of genocide, according to Breitbart. The official media of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published on Wednesday, April ...
China to face sanctions if it supports Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. says
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday, April 6, that sanctions placed on Russia over its war in Ukraine should give China a "good understanding" of its implications if it provides material support to Russia. According to Reuters, Sherman stated that the "range of sanctions" and export controls ...
