China

SHANGHAI— It’s now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial recognition systems in China that has raised privacy concerns as Beijing pushes to become a global leader in the field. Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport unveiled self-service kiosks for flight and baggage check-in, […]

There is no stopping the Chinese when it comes to counterfeiting the most brands from all over the world, including TV programs. Under the Chinese Communist Party’s rule, China has become the leader in producing the largest amount of counterfeit goods. According to recent South Korean statistics, China ranked the highest compared to other countries […]

BEIJING—At week’s end, global investors and policy makers will likely be given a stark reminder of the costs of a bitter Sino-U.S. trade war, with a Reuters poll predicting that China’s third-quarter growth will slow to its weakest pace since the global financial crisis. Domestic demand has been faltering in recent months as U.S. President […]

BEIJING—Beijing is keen to show results after four rounds of policy easing, so China’s big banks are playing along, highlighting their efforts to boost lending to cash-starved small firms, offering collateral waivers and setting loan targets. But in reality, banks’ loan eligibility requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain stringent, making it too difficult […]

BEIJING—Off-balance-sheet borrowings by Chinese local governments could be as high as 40 trillion yuan ($5.78 trillion) and amount to “a debt iceberg with titanic credit risks,” S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Oct. 16. When including so-called “hidden” local government debt, the ratio of government debt to gross domestic product (GDP) may have […]

BEIJING— China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former top general who killed himself during a corruption probe and indicted another on graft charges amid Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s continuing crackdown on military malfeasance. Official media reported that Zhang Yang killed himself at home last November, after which they denounced his death as a “despicable” […]

BEIJING—A Chinese maker of rabies vaccine was fined 9.1 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) on Oct. 16 for falsifying production records in a scandal that prompted a nationwide crackdown on the industry. Disclosure of the case, and the failure of authorities to act immediately after finding inconsistencies in the company’s records in late 2017, triggered a […]

Relations between the United States and China have deteriorated amid the trade dispute. The trade dispute is closely connected  to the “world’s factory.” The “world’s factory” is a metaphor that describes China’s economic role. Because of the trade war, the “world’s factory” is starting to fall apart and it will continue to do so–this is […]

Uyghurs in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being tortured, raped, and killed in secretive “political re-education” camps, former detainees have told The Epoch Times. “Upwards of one million” of the predominantly Uyghur prisoners continue to be detained in what were, until Oct. 9, extrajudicial internment camps in western China, according to figures quoted by the […]

For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using a variety of methods to infiltrate the Hollywood film industry.

As China’s overseas talent-recruitment programs come under close scrutiny in the United States, Taiwan is also raising the alarm about the outflow of the island’s nationals to lucrative jobs on the mainland. Beijing has created several recruitment programs to attract overseas Chinese and foreign experts to work in China, for the goal of driving the […]

New Zealand media recently revealed the extent of China’s infiltration within the country. In an Oct. 11 report, New Zealand online news website Newsroom uncovered that some government offices were using surveillance cameras developed by Hikvision, whose controlling shareholder belongs to a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Hikvision’s surveillance technology has been employed in the large-scale human […]

Attorneys from the Southern District of New York have submitted documents showing that Patrick Ho Chi-ping, a Hong Kong representative of China’s CEFC who was arrested by U.S. authorities in 2017, skirted sanctions by selling weapons to buyers in Libya, South Sudan, Qatar, and other countries. On Oct. 2, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, three […]

HONG KONG—China’s HNA Group is exploring an outright sale and other options for its IT outsourcing unit Pactera and has held talks with investors including Ant Financial, people with knowledge of the situation said. The discussions on Pactera, which HNA bought from Blackstone in 2016 for $675 million in cash, come amid a series of […]

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia freed 11 ethnic Uyghur Muslims who fled to the Southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak last year because they did nothing wrong there, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Oct. 15 Reuters, citing the men’s lawyer, reported last week that Malaysia had released the 11 from detention and sent them to Turkey, […]

WASHINGTON—By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China’s military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region that share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning on Oct. 16 also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese […]

BEIJING—The former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd, Lai Xiaomin, has been expelled from the Communist Party and will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, China’s top anti-graft agency said on Oct. 15. Lai, one of the most senior executives to be brought to book in China’s anti-corruption campaign, was accused of a long […]

HONG KONG—China’s property developers usually look forward to the months dubbed “Golden September and Silver October” as the high season for new home sales. This year is proving to be different. Instead, they are feeling a chill and one major realtor has warned that “winter” is coming as developers struggle to maintain sales momentum despite […]

Beijing’s investment has led to its open interference in Sierra Leone’s politics: for the purpose of gaining access to the country’s rich minerals.

Tips for Chinese tourists in Russia include not cutting in line and going bare-chested in public.