China

The United States is being outspent by China in the race to build the next generation of wireless communication, known as 5G, and it risks losing out on the potential economic benefits, according to a report by consulting firm Deloitte published on Aug. 7. China currently has 10 times more sites to support 5G communications than the United […]

Thousands of alleged victims of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms recently gathered near the Beijing headquarters of China’s bank regulator, the Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), to seek redress after losing their investments. Local authorities sent scores of police—as many as 30,000, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA)—to disperse the protesters who had gathered on Aug. 6. […]

LONDON—The human cadavers on display at an exhibition center in the UK could have once been prisoners of conscience from China, a human rights group is arguing. In an open letter sent to the British government, over 30 medical professionals, lawmakers, and activists called for the Real Bodies exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham to […]

On Aug. 1, professor Sun Wenguang, 84, was taken away by police from his home in Jinan City, Shandong Province, during a live phone interview with independent media outlet Voice of America (VOA). Since then, Chinese authorities have offered little information about Sun’s whereabouts. VOA most recently reported on Aug. 5 that Sun had been […]

In China, consumer confidence in domestically produced vaccines shows no sign of rebounding, after another incident involving possibly faulty vaccines came to light before being quickly rebuffed by local authorities as a false alarm. On Aug. 3, an online article titled “The Vicious Vaccine! Many Children Inoculated with Expired Vaccines in Shangluo, Shaanxi. And the […]

China and its roughly 1.4 billion citizens are the world’s biggest consumer of power. As the nation’s energy consumption grows, Beijing is anxious to develop alternative sources. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted that China will overtake the United States as the biggest nuclear-energy producer by 2030. China’s nuclear ambitions have now extended beyond […]

The Changchun Changsheng Bio-tech scandal, involving over 250,000 faulty doses of the DPT infant vaccine, has further diminished the Chinese people’s trust in the authorities, just days after an expose of a defective rabies vaccine. Including chairwoman Gao Junfang, 18 Changsheng executives have been arrested and placed under investigation by local authorities in Changchun, the […]

News Analysis Last week’s revelations that a Chinese spy served on the staff of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for almost 20 years, should be shocking no one. The unidentified agent, who was in place as recently as five years ago, was Feinstein’s driver. He also served as a “gofer” in her Bay Area office and […]

SINGAPORE/BEIJING—China’s Unipec, the trading arm of the state-run oil company Sinopec, has suspended crude oil imports from the United States because of the growing trade spat between Washington and Beijing, three people familiar with the situation said on Aug. 3. The people declined to be identified as they aren’t authorized to speak to the media. […]

Alumni of one of China’s top universities are so upset by a professor’s claims that they are calling for his firing. What did the offending professor do? Boast about China’s prowess. On Aug. 1, a letter signed by 27 Tsinghua University alumni began circulating on the internet, where they urged the university president to fire […]

BEIJING—Chinese state media has given the first hint that an annual conclave of senior leaders is occurring at the resort of Beidaihe, through a report that says the head of the regime’s Organization Department had visited government workers who are vacationing there. Traditionally, top party leaders visit the seaside town every summer in an unofficial […]

News Analysis While the United States and China are upping the ante in their ongoing trade dispute, so far the effects on the Chinese economy and financial markets have been far more pronounced than on the United States. China said on Aug. 3 that it would impose new tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. […]

An engineer of Chinese nationality was charged with stealing trade secrets from his U.S. employer, General Electric (GE), and transmitting the information to companies in China. Zheng Xiaoqing, 56, of Niskayuna, New York, was arrested by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) on Aug. 1. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, […]

A Chinese spy reportedly embedded in U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office was her driver for many years, according to a new report. Politico, in a larger story about how spies have begun cropping up in Silicon Valley, revealed that Feinstein (D-Calif.) had a staff member recruited by Chinese intelligence officials and reported back to China […]

A live telephone interview by Voice of America (VOA) with an outspoken Chinese professor was abruptly terminated when Chinese police forcibly broke into his home in Shandong Province on Aug. 1. “The police came again! They came to interfere again!” Sun Wenguang, a retired physics professor at Shandong University, could be heard yelling in the […]

A Chinese Buddhist monk who serves as president of the Beijing-sanctioned Buddhist Association of China has been accused of sexually assaulting several of his female disciples. Xue Cheng, 51, is an abbot of Beijing’s Longquan Monastery and heads the Buddhist Association, through which the Chinese regime monitors the activities of Buddhist practitioners in the communist […]

After a 10-day tour of African nations, Chinese leader Xi Jinping returned to Beijing to immediately convene a political meeting. On July 31, two days after returning to China, Xi hosted a meeting with the Politburo, a 25-member group of Chinese Communist Party elite. State media reports about the meeting’s topics of discussion provided hints […]

People in the United States and other Western countries may have called Donald J. Trump a lot of different names, but in China, many people are addressing him as “Chuan Da Ye.” “Chuan” is the Chinese pronunciation for Trump. “Da” means big or great, and “Ye” means grandfather, grandpa, or more broadly, an elderly male. […]

BEIJING—China’s manufacturing sector grew at the slowest pace in eight months in July as export orders declined yet again in a sign of a darkening outlook for the economy amid an intensifying trade dispute with the United States. The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ index (PMI), a private survey compiled by the Beijing media group Caixin, declined […]

The U.S. government recently put export limits on 44 Chinese entities that all happen to have major roles in China’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure project. The Bureau of Industry Security (BIS), an agency within the Department of Commerce, added the Chinese parties (8 entities and 35 subordinate institutions) to its export control list on […]

The value of the Chinese yuan has been falling since the U.S.-China trade war began in earnest this month. On Aug. 1, the yuan’s value fell to 6.82 against the U.S. dollar. The central parity of the yuan has depreciated by more than 4 percent since the beginning of the year, while its value against […]

South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group will shut all of its department stores in China, to complete its withdrawal from the communist nation’s retail market, according to a July 30 report by South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. Business fell dramatically, beginning in 2017, after the South Korean government decided to host the United States’ Terminal High […]

A recent U.S. government report shows that many key industrial sectors in the United States continue to be the target of foreign espionage—most notably from China. On July 26, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) released a report titled “2018 Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace,” which identified three countries—Russia, Iran, and China—as the most […]

The White House is mulling whether to boost tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods to 25 percent, up from the 10 percent announced in early July, according to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. President Donald Trump directed Lighthizer to consider boosting the duties earlier this week, according to a statement from the trade representative’s […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening its grip on South Africa on many levels. The secretary general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), Ace Magashule, has announced that ANC cadres will be trained by the CCP before next year’s South African general elections. The ANC will be sending around 300 cadres to […]

BEIJING—Chinese regulators are investigating Pinduoduo after media reports surfaced about third-party vendors selling counterfeit goods on its group-discounting marketplace. The probe exposes long-standing problem—Beijing’s hopes of upgrading consumption over the years has failed to materialize for large numbers of poor Chinese, despite a recent economic boom. The investigation comes just days after the Shanghai-based startup […]

The strategy first used by President Donald Trump against North Korea is now being employed in the trade war against China and will bring far worse consequences for the Chinese economy than many expect, said an expert. “Although he might not have said it, what President Trump is adopting during the trade war with China […]