China’s Social Credit System

Even Tiger Global is nervous about where China is headed. A long-time investor in the market, the American investment firm has decided to temporarily halt investing in Chinese equities. It’s already been pulling back in a market it has spent roughly two decades building a robust portfolio in. Tiger Global’s…

        | Published: Thursday, November 3, 2022, 18:41 Xiaomi announced its Redmi Note 12 series of smartphones in China last week. The series comprises the vanilla Redmi Note 12, Redmi Note 12 Pro, and Redmi Note 12 Pro+ devices. Xiaomi is expected to bring these smartphones to…

China’s space station Tiangong is almost complete. The third and final module is scheduled to launch into low Earth orbit on Monday. The station, only the second laboratory in orbit, is expected to host more than 1,000 scientific experiments over its lifetime of at least 10 years. These include studying the effects…

People wearing protective face masks walk on a street, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, September 28, 2022. — ReutersHONG KONG/BEIJING: Chinese policymakers pledged on Wednesday that growth was still a priority and they would press on with reforms, helping further boost stock markets buoyed by hopes…

People walking past Apple Store At Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu.— UnsplashBEIJING: Chinese authorities on Wednesday locked down the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory after workers had fled the facility to avoid COVID restrictions. Central China's Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, where Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn runs a massive plant, entered…

To say China was in crisis in 1861 puts it too gently. The Taiping rebels were at their strongest, claiming half of China from their capital in Nanjing. Two other rebellions — the Nian in the east and the Panthay in the southwest — were at full throttle, taxing Qing…

(Reuters) - Debt-laden property developer China Evergrande Group said on Tuesday its unit received a notice of enforcement for unrecoverable funds from Shengjing Bank Co Ltd. The bank said it failed to recover funds totalling 32.595 billion yuan ($4.48 billion), which was provided to the unit from 2020 to 2021,…

FRANKFURT - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a high-stakes trip to China this week, walking a tightrope between shoring up a key economic relationship and facing heightened concerns about over-reliance on authoritarian Beijing. Mr Scholz, accompanied by a delegation of business executives, will be the first European Union leader to…

A Long March 5B rocket hauls the Mengtian module into orbit for China’s Tiangong space station. Credit: China Manned Space Agency China launched a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket Monday with the Mengtian lab module, the final major element to complete the initial assembly and outfitting of the Chinese Tiangong…

China could insist on the pre-war status quo or embrace a trilateral alliance with Moscow, but either option would hurt its strategic aims, including the one-China policy Or it, along with major states, could offer an economic reform and aid deal to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear…