Category

China’s Social Credit System

Five Companies From Greater China Rank Among Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees in 2021 China's Social Credit System

Five Companies From Greater China Rank Among Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees in 2021

(Source: Law Donut) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio According to authoritative patent data released on Monday by IFI Claims, five enterprises from Greater China have entered into the list of top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees in 2021. Among them, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC) ranked fourth, Huawei ranked…
bubmag
January 13, 2022
Inside China’s bleak ‘quarantine camps’ where people isolate in strict lockdowns China's Social Credit System

Inside China’s bleak ‘quarantine camps’ where people isolate in strict lockdowns

The bleak reality of China’s Covid lockdowns has been revealed as the country continues its attempts to eradicate the virus ahead of the winter Olympics. Pictures have emerged of the basic conditions hundreds are living in while being forced to stay in cell-like rooms at ‘quarantine camps’. Three major cities…
bubmag
January 12, 2022
China builds ‘free trade data port’ inclusive of submarine cable landing station China's Social Credit System

China builds ‘free trade data port’ inclusive of submarine cable landing station

If the Middle Kingdom lets its data out, Beijing might as well be in control China has earmarked ¥31.8bn ($5bn) to build the first free trade data port in the nation as it tries to bolster and control information flowing across its borders, the country's state-sponsored media says. Known as…
bubmag
January 12, 2022
An economist has put a price tag on getting China’s birth rate up: $300 billion China's Social Credit System

An economist has put a price tag on getting China’s birth rate up: $300 billion

China’s birth rate has been dropping steadily in recent years, creating a shrinking workforce and mounting burdens on the state pension system. There were only 8.5 births per 1,000 people in 2020, the lowest rate since the People’s Republic of China was established 1949. But the government could spend its way…
bubmag
January 11, 2022
Beijing Appoints Former Paramilitary Chief as New Hong Kong Garrison Commander China's Social Credit System

Beijing Appoints Former Paramilitary Chief as New Hong Kong Garrison Commander

A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier guards the entrance to the PLA Hong Kong Garrison headquarters in the Central Business District in Hong Kong, on Aug. 29, 2019. (Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters) SHANGHAI—Beijing has appointed a former paramilitary chief, Peng Jingtang, as the new commander of the People Liberation Army’s (PLA)…
bubmag
January 10, 2022
Sri Lanka’s president asks China to restructure debt repayments China's Social Credit System

Sri Lanka’s president asks China to restructure debt repayments

Please try another search Economic Indicators3 hours ago (Jan 10, 2022 03:41AM ET) 3/3 © Reuters. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives with Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka's Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa during his visit to Colombo Port city project, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 9, 2022.…
bubmag
January 9, 2022
China-Australia relations: more Russian pipeline gas could be ‘political hedge’ for Beijing China's Social Credit System

China-Australia relations: more Russian pipeline gas could be ‘political hedge’ for Beijing

China is becoming increasingly reliant on liquefied natural gas (LNG), and much of it comes from Australia and the United States, putting the supply at risk of trade tensions Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline could eventually bring billions of cubic metres of gas to northern China, but ‘they can’t…
bubmag
January 8, 2022