China’s Social Credit System

Placeholder while article actions load BEIJING — Only a trickle of visitors strolled the pedestrian-only streets Sunday in central Beijing’s historic Qianmen district, which normally would be bustling with tourists on what was a national holiday and a sunny spring day. Many Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year…

Baidu and Pony.ai have been given permission to operate their autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Beijing, a first for robotaxi services in China (via CNBC). Although both companies now no longer need a staff member in the driver’s seat, they’ll still need a supervisor present somewhere in the vehicle.…

Top Chinese health officials offered to brief U.S. counterparts on the “new coronavirus in Wuhan” in a closed-door meeting in early 2020, newly obtained emails show. As health officials in the United States and around the world were scrambling to respond to the emerging COVID-19 outbreak from China, Lance Rodewald,…

Saturday 30 April 2022 12:33 pm China’s largest insurer has told HSBC it should break itself up and separate out its Asian operations. Shenzhen headquartered insurer Ping An has told HSBC’s board it believes the London and Hong Kong listed bank should split itself up, in order to free up…

Please try another search Economy5 minutes ago (Apr 29, 2022 10:16AM ET) © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks walk past a street amid snowfall, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at a shopping area in Beijing, China March 17, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang By Kevin Yao and Julie Zhu…

Updated 3 hours ago · Published on 29 Apr 2022 7:00PM · Cars on display at the Tesla trade fair stand during the Auto Shanghai 2021 motor show on April 20, 2021. Chinese market regulator says Tesla has filed a recall plan for 14,684 Model 3 vehicles, most of them…

(Source: Pony.ai) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Technology industry research institution IDC released the “Q1 Report on China’s Autonomous Driving Passenger Car Market” on Wednesday. The findings indicate that the penetration rate of L2 autonomous driving in the domestic passenger car market is as high as 23.2%. Specifically, the…

(Source: vivo) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Smartphone sales in China fell 14% year-on-year to 74.2 million units in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report released on Thursday by Counterpoint. The quarter’s volumes were close to the levels seen during the severe pandemic-hit Q1 2020. Commenting…

In their frantic effort to declare “nothing to see here”, Australia’s intelligence chiefs are drawing more attention to the Solomons-China pact that’s continuing to cause Scott Morrison enormous grief. Today’s instalment is from Andrew Shearer, the long-time Coalition adviser elevated to director-general of the Office of National Intelligence in 2020.…

Now that Twitter has agreed to Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer, China Twitter has a question: Could Musk’s investment in the country factor into how the Tesla founder manages the platform? Despite having been banned in China since 2009, Twitter has been an important forum for both Chinese dissidents and ordinary…