Food- and drug-safety problems in China are serious incidents when they occur, although Chinese authorities are finding themselves under fire from netizens who question the fairness of some of the punishments. When a public hospital in Shandong Province that sold fake medicine recently was fined a slight amount, many Chinese netizens expressed anger over the […]

On Aug. 11, officials in the Chinese city of Weizhou, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, gave into the demands of thousands of protestors and delayed the demolition of the city’s Grand Mosque. By announcing the delay in the face of mounting unrest, the local government signaled it was playing a weak hand, and this […]

A reporter and a freelancer for Voice of America (VOA), a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcaster, were released unharmed after about six hours of detention by Chinese police, VOA said. VOA reporter Feng Yibing and freelance reporter Allen Ai had been taken into custody on Aug. 13 while interviewing Sun Wenguang—a retired Chinese professor who […]

WASHINGTON—Chinese buyers have canceled U.S. soybean orders and shifted their purchases to South America in the past few months to avoid new tariffs between the United States and China. However, China is still dependent on U.S. supplies and will have to turn to American farmers after September, according to Morgan Stanley. Soybean prices in Chicago […]

In reporting on the threat of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltration in Australian politics, Australia’s journalists have been facing major challenges in doing their job to openly report on the issue due to the chance that they could be sued for defamation. But at a forum “The Great Thrall of China,” hosted by the Melbourne […]

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on July 30 that any potential International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout for Pakistan’s new government should not provide funds to pay off Chinese lenders. In an interview with cable television station CNBC, Pompeo said the United States looks forward to engagement with the government of Pakistan’s expected new […]

On Tuesday night, a crowd gathered in Victoria’s Parliament House to watch a compelling film that exposes the true intentions of the “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that is the Chinese Communist regime’s global language and culture program, known as the Confucius Institute. The audience watched intently as the story of Sonia Zhao, a Chinese-born former […]

Local governments across New South Wales are looking for ways to tackle the recycling challenges following China’s import restrictions on recycled materials. However, uptake of funding offered to improve recycling across the state has been slow. In a workshop attended by local government representatives on July 20, NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton called on councils to […]

WASHINGTON—China exploits the openness of the U.S. innovation network, from Silicon Valley to the nation’s universities, yet the United States may still be underestimating the scale of the Chinese threat, warn experts. “There’s a real war going on,” James Phillips, chairman and CEO of NanoMech, Inc., said at a congressional hearing titled “China’s Threat to American […]

China resorts to predatory trade and investment practices and should be held accountable for its bad behavior, according to two key House Republicans. “China does not share our values. We have long seen this in their human rights record, but now it is obvious in their trade policies,” Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) said on July 11 […]

An Australian supermarket chain, Coles, will stop selling a brand of honey that is partly sourced from China and Argentina, saying it wants to support Australian production in its ‘Australia first’ policy. In a statement, Coles said it will stop selling the low-end Allowrie brand under Capilano Honey. The product contains honey sourced from China […]

Malaysia suspended three of its largest China-backed projects worth $22 billion on Thursday. The projects in question are the $20 billion East Coast Rail Link and two pipeline projects that cost more than $1 billion apiece. The suspension came just a day after Malaysia Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng called for a sharp price reduction to […]

SYDNEY—A New Zealand government defense report released on July 6 warned that Communist China’s rising influence in the South Pacific could undermine stability in the region, comments that are likely to stoke bilateral tensions. New Zealand and Australia have traditionally been the two major players in the South Pacific, but the report said New Zealand […]

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co-Chairman, Wang Jian, died during a business trip in France on July 3 in what local police said appeared to be an accidental fall from a wall while posing for a photograph. Wang, 57, is regarded as the architect of an eye-popping $50 billion acquisition spree that saw HNA accumulate assets […]

U.S. tariffs on imports from China are not set to take effect until July 6. However, escalating trade tensions between Washington and Beijing have already started to affect the volume of goods flowing from China to the United States. According to preliminary data released by China’s General Administration of Customs on July 3, the growth […]

BEIJING—China believes that Burma is now ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh who have fled violence in the country’s Rakhine state, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told his Bangladeshi opposite number on Friday. Since August 2017, about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims and Hindus have fled a military crackdown in […]

The White House is toning down its strict approach toward Chinese investments in the United States, agreeing to work with Congress to strengthen the existing review process rather than craft new rules. Media reports earlier this week suggested that the administration would aim to block companies with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying […]

SYDNEY–Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd said it plans to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, not an independent nation, but that it needed extra time to comply with the request from Beijing. China’s aviation regulator in April gave three dozen airlines a May 25 deadline to remove references on their websites […]

Fears include growing Chinese political influence and strategic encroachment. The West has offered no coherent response to the Chinese investments in polar regions. 8 — Number of member countries in the Arctic Council

Half a year into the federal government’s review of the takeover of Aecon by a Chinese state-owned construction firm, the implications for business and the global world order loom larger than ever.