China’s Social Credit System

James Cameron’s ”The Way of Water“ earned just $57 million in the Middle Kingdom while nabbing a near-record $19 million in India Disney While the overall projected $435 million global weekend for “Avatar: The Way of Water” qualifies as a good start, the film stumbled hard in China. Despite pre-release…

An elderly man receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Qingzhou in China´s eastern Shandong province on December 16, 2022. — AFPBEIJING: China's nursing homes are fighting an uphill battle to keep their elderly residents safe as a wave of COVID-19 infections sweeps the country following a relaxation of the government's zero-tolerance…

I had previously said that China’s purchasing power parity GDP was likely 30% higher than official numbers. However, purchasing power parity strength does not mean the country would or should do better with a stronger currency. The country has to import 10 million barrels per day in oil. The previous…

Wow, that was quick. When Elon Musk bought Twitter and took it private in October, I figured we’d have a while before things took a turn. Then, after he laid off about half the company’s employees, that estimate shortened a bit. Now, after last night’s Spaces brouhaha, during which Musk…

Between 5:40 pm and 6:00 pm on December 15, Beijing time, many locals in Jinhua, China’s Zhejiang Province posted online that they had witnessed a mysterious bright “fireball” flashing through the sky, and that meteorite parts were suspected to have fallen to the ground. Chinese web users posted on social…

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO unveiled two foldable smartphones on the second day of this year’s INNO DAY 2022. The OPPO Find N2 is a foldable phone turbo-charged with iconic Hasselblad capabilities on a mighty camera set up, boosted by MariSilicon X, plus FlexForm capture for versatile shooting experiences and studio-grade…

WeChat is part of China’s largest technology company, Tencent, and has been accused of spreading Chinese Community Party propaganda around the globe. But we’re uncertain if the CCP would willingly bandy about UAP’s ads (unlike the newspapers published by our parent company, Nine Entertainment). The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) did…

© Reuters. Workers walk past a construction site near residential buildings in Beijing, China April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/Files BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new home prices fell for a fourth month in November in monthly terms, weighed by a sluggish economy and a still-ailing property sector, official data showed on…

BEIJING: The true scale of Covid-19 infections in China is now "impossible" to track, the country's top health body said Wednesday, as officials warned of a rapid spread in Beijing after the country abruptly dropped its zero-tolerance policy. China last week loosened restrictions for mass testing and quarantine after nearly…

The Pentagon has said that the US Department of Defense is keeping a close watch on developments along the line of actual control (LAC) at the India-China border in Tawang as the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues to amass forces and build military infrastructure along the contested border. The…