China’s Social Credit System

More than 2.6 billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the Chinese mainland, according to the National Health Commission. 
The findings were published on Sunday, December 12 and examined data gathered from 31 provinces within the mainland.  According to a National Health Commission press conference given on December 11,…

The CEO of Ctrip, China’s leading travel agency, has predicted that China will resume international travel within around half a year.  Speaking at a forum on Thursday, December 9, Liang Jianzhang added that some other Asian countries would likely do the same within three months, as reported by Global Times.  Due…

On November 6 China’s Evergrande Group missed a debt payment deadline of USD82.5 million, pushing the company to the brink of default. The payment was on an estimated USD19 billion of international bonds.  Since the revelations of the company’s debt crisis, Evergrande has been branded China’s “most indebted company,” and…

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Workers attend the opening ceremony for the “Belt and Road” RCEP Line at the port in Qingdao, China, January 19, 2021. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images) The nation’s admission 20 years ago into the WTO was a grave mistake. Congress can begin to rectify this error by immediately terminating Beijing’s…

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Chinese authorities have approved a new COVID-19 drug, the first antibody therapy for the novel coronavirus to be sanctioned in the country. The antibody therapy is administered by intravenous injection and designed to treat anyone aged 12 years old and above, showing mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms.  The drug, known…

This article is the second in a series on biodiversity. A United Nations meeting on biological diversity began virtually in October and will conclude in person next year in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. For 54-year-old fisher Zhou Guangjin, encountering a dolphin in the waters near Shantou, in south…

Tan Junbao often skipped class, mostly to visit the internet café. He says he never drank alcohol or got into fights, nor did he ever go clubbing. He quickly asserts though that his life was “more exciting” than anyone else in his class. The vast majority of his classmates never…

Source: Adobe/ShanA high-flying regional Communist Party official who was expelled from the party last month for allegedly supporting crypto miners has been arrested. Meanwhile, individuals are being caught sending money abroad using crypto. Per the Epoch Times and the Xinhua news agency, Xiao Yi, the former Vice Chairman of the…