China’s Social Credit System

Earlier last week, the Justice Department dropped a bombshell allegation against one of the key figures in former President Donald Trump’s circle. According to the Justice Department, billionaire developer Steve Wynn — a man who’s known Trump for years and who served as the finance chair of the Republican National…

Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 84 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases this morning, Saturday, May 21. Of those, 49 were converted from asymptomatic cases, so are not counted as new, leaving a total of 35 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. A further 784 local asymptomatic cases were also reported.…

Tesla Inc. plans to keep employees at its Shanghai factory working in a so-called closed loop system -- where staff are ferried to and from work and tested for COVID-19 regularly -- until mid-June, people familiar with the matter said, even as Chinese authorities move to ease wider lockdown restrictions…

Huawei and SolarEdge have settled all of their pending lawsuits in Germany and China through a global patent license agreement. May 20, 2022 Emiliano Bellini Image: Huawei Inverter manufacturers Huawei and SolarEdge said in a joint statement that they have signed a global patent license agreement that allows them to…

Nicknamed huozhou or ‘Fire Land’ for its excruciating summer heat, Turpan is China’s hottest city. Surrounded by the Taklamakan desert and flanked by the red ‘flaming’ foothills of the Tianshan Mountain Range, Turpan sits 150 meters below sea level. Although it may seem unlikely, this region is becoming known for…

Gitee, China’s answer to open-source platform GitHub, said it will temporarily close public code repositories so they can be reviewed before they are made available to the community again, which comes amid tightening online censorship in the country. “All new open-source repositories shall be manually reviewed before they are officially…

Johannesburg, South Africa — A cursory Google search for "rosewood furniture China" brings up plenty of sites selling the luxury item, but most buyers are likely unaware that their treasured table or chair could be the product of a rampant illegal trade in the protected tree species -- one which…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Wen Yaoyao, China’s first virtual commentator for cultural relics, was jointly launched today by Baidu AI Cloud, Art Exhibition China and Jimu Technology to commemorate this year’s International Museum Day on Wednesday. Wen Yaoyao, a virtual yet traditional Chinese girl, started to…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Chinese Vice Premier and top economic official Liu He said at a meeting held in Beijing on Tuesday that the government will support the sustained and healthy development of the platform economy and the private economy, and will support digital enterprises to…

Chinese authorities have dismissed citizen reports about passport "clipping" and the seizure of green cards by border control, after the country's top immigration authority restricted travel in order to reduce inbound COVID cases. Unverified reports emerged after China's National Immigration Administration (NIA) announced a ban on "non-essential" foreign travel by…