China

The Bloomberg 'spy chip' report has exposed the security risks involved with manufacturing in China and vulnerabilities in the tech supply chain.

Due to the Sino-US trade war, which has affected China’s soybean imports, the country’s 400 million pigs are looking at going on diet. The China Feed Industry Association (CFIA) plans to reduce protein content in pig feed to reduce China’s reliance on soybeans.

China Bohai Steel has begun to file for bankruptcy in a process that will affect 48 factories and 105 creditors in Tianjin.

Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented speech on China-U.S. relations last week is still causing shockwaves due to its unflinching directness in calling out China on its litany of transgressions.

BEIJING—China should prepare “more powerful” policy measures, possibly including a large-scale stimulus package, to prevent its economy from stalling as trade frictions with the United States persist, a state-backed tabloid said in a commentary on Oct. 11. The trade war with the United States seems to have jolted Beijing into recognizing that it must come […]

BEIJING/SHANGHAI—China’s top auto dealers’ association has asked the government to halve taxes on car purchases to revive faltering sales, sources said, as worries grow the country’s auto market could shrink this year for the first time in decades. The China Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) submitted documents last month to the country’s finance and commerce ministries […]

SHANGHAI—China’s latest attempts at restricting outward investment by its residents show just how nervous policymakers in the world’s second largest economy are about possible capital flight spurred by a broadening Sino-U.S. trade war. Beijing has been gradually easing monetary and fiscal policy this year, as it seeks to steer the economy through a period of […]

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia has freed from detention 11 ethnic Uyghur Muslims who fled to the southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak last year, and sent them to Turkey, their lawyer said on Oct. 11, disregarding China’s request to hand them to Beijing. The move is likely to strain ties with China, already tested by Malaysian […]

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) recently established a content-sharing partnership with Caixin, a Chinese media outlet with financial backing from Beijing. Caixin is one of China’s largest media outlets. Based in the country’s capital, it reports mainly on business and finance news. Caixin’s largest shareholder is China Media Capital, described as “a government-backed, 5 billion-yuan […]

TAIPEI —Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to boost national security, saying her government won’t submit to pressure from the Beijing regime or its attempts to assert sovereignty over the self-ruled island. Tsai’s remarks came weeks ahead of island-wide local elections in late November that are seen as a bellwether for her ruling party’s performance in […]

While China is one of the most important markets for U.S. tech giant Apple, the country has long been home to criminal rings that make and sell fake iPhones. According to an Oct. 9 report by San Francisco-based digital media The Information, organized teams in China have been running sophisticated schemes in which they buy […]

Xu Yanjun, a deputy division director within China’s primary intelligence agency, is being charged for his scheme to steal jet engine tech.

China’s summer grain yield experienced a significant decrease in production at a time when Beijing aims to reduce its reliance on imports from the United States.

WASHINGTON—The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month, the Treasury Department said on Oct. 10, as it starts to enforce a law aimed at curbing Chinese investment in 27 sensitive sectors. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews mergers and stock […]

Recently, the general public has begun to recognize how the Chinese regime works to try to influence opinion in the United States and around the world. But even the well-informed may be surprised to learn that one of the Chinese Communist Party’s main targets is Shen Yun, a world-class Chinese dance and music performing arts […]

Though the ambitious promotion schemes had only marginal effects in boosting sales, they left many earlier customers feeling cheated of their new homes’ value.

WASHINGTON—China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Oct. 10. Senators on the Homeland Security Committee questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI Director Christopher Wray about President Donald Trump’s […]

HONG KONG—Some Hong Kong lawmakers walked out of the Legislative Council as city leader Carrie Lam was about to give her annual policy address on Oct. 10, protesting against the rejection of a work visa for a senior British journalist. Chanting “Protect media freedoms” and holding placards that said “Free Press. No Persecution,” around a […]

Princess Michael of Kent, a member of the British royal family, once sang high praises for Shen Yun, the New York-based performing arts company that showcases traditional Chinese culture through an annual global tour that has drawn hundreds of thousands of audiences. So have scores of regular arts lovers, dignitaries, politicians, and celebrities around the […]

BEIJING—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants President Donald Trump to help Muslims respond to a sweeping crackdown in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. The group proposed legislation on Oct. 10 that would urge Trump to condemn “gross violations” of human rights in the Xinjiang region, where the U.N. estimates that as many as 1 million […]

SHANGHAI—The Chinese regime has launched a campaign against halal products amid an escalating crackdown on Muslim minority groups, particularly the Uyghurs, in the Xinjiang region. In a meeting on Oct. 8, the Communist Party leaders of Urumqi led cadres to swear an oath to “fight a decisive battle against ‘pan-halalization’,” according to a notice posed […]

TAIPEI—Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called on China on Oct. 10 not to be a “source of conflict” and pledged to boost the island’s defenses against Beijing’s military threats. In a National Day address, Tsai said the best way to defend Taiwan was to “make it indispensable and irreplaceable to the world,” while remaining non-confrontational in […]

The “Standards for Being a Good Student and Child” (Di Zi Gui) is a traditional Chinese textbook for children that teaches children morals and proper etiquette. It was written by Li Yuxiu in the Qing Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Kang Xi (1661-1722). In this series, we present some ancient Chinese stories that exemplify […]

BEIJING—China’s export growth is expected to have further slowed in September, weighed down by a faster decline in orders as an intensifying trade war with the United States starts to hurt Chinese shipments, a Reuters poll showed. Import growth also likely came off recent highs, which would be a worrying sign for Chinese policymakers counting […]

As of now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has introduced three mixed-ownership reforms (mixed reforms) across 50 experimental state-owned enterprises — termed the second round of public-private partnerships. The 19 experimental companies involved in the first two reforms were directly led by the central government, but the third time was different, as it mainly […]

LONDON—British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Oct. 9 that in the absence of any explanation by Hong Kong for its refusal to grant a visa to a senior UK journalist he could only conclude it was politically motivated. Chinese-ruled Hong Kong last week rejected an application to renew the work visa of Victor Mallet, […]

The Chinese regime has announced that Meng Hongwei, former president of Interpol and high-ranking police official, is now under investigation.