China’s Social Credit System

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What Happened: Beijing is becoming the first city to host a Summer and Winter Olympics, but the situation is not all roses. Human rights activists put in a call to boycott the Games over China’s human rights record just as the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics organizers received the Olympic flame…

Shanghai will become a floral city during the upcoming China International Import Expo. Flowers will bloom at 175 landscapes across the city, according to the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau. There will be 118 floral streets, and some marginal areas such as those along the elevated roads will also…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to officially stamp his personal imprint on the Communist Party’s historical record, a sign of his strengthening grip on power in the face of simmering uncertainties over the country’s economy and tensions with Western powers. At a closed-door conclave in Beijing next month, Mr.…

To access the data of unsuspecting users, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could take advantage of a universal authentication process that is believed to be secure but may not actually be, cybersecurity experts warned, although encryption is still the preferred method of protecting digital data and Protection of computers -…

Xinhua) War epic film "The Battle at Lake Changjin" continued its dominance of the Chinese mainland box office chart on Saturday, figures from the China Movie Data Information Network showed on Sunday.With a daily box office of 203.39 million yuan (about 31.6 million U.S. dollars), the film's total box office…

The EU is starting to hold Beijing accountable for its internal and external actions when the US won’t Commentary As the Chinese regime continues to treat the world like it treats its own citizens, the European Union is stepping up to confront Beijing. If not a new role, it is…

SMUGGLED VEGGIES Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Chairman and Administrator Wilma Eisma and Senior Deputy Administrator for Operations Ronnie Yambao inspect the fresh vegetables, illegally shipped from China on Oct. 13, 2021. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO AUTHORITIES at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone confiscated on Thursday almost P15 million worth of fresh vegetables,…

China Zhongwang Holdings Co, a maker of aluminium products, said on Friday it had been notified of "severe difficulties" at two subsidiary companies, as Chinese prices for the metal hit a 15-year record high. Liaoyang Zhongwang Superior Aluminium Fabrication Co and Liaoning Zhongwang Group Co are facing problems due to…

Oct. 15 (UPI) -- China on Friday launched three astronauts into space aboard Shenzhou 13, its second crewed mission to the Tiangong space station. The Long March 2F rocket lifted off at 12:23 a.m. from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert. Aboard the spacecraft were Zhai Zhigang,…