China’s Social Credit System

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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…

The People’s Bank of China has never been politically independent like a Western central bank, but it has nonetheless enjoyed a special status in the nation’s economic hierarchy. Now, President Xi Jinping’s shake-up of China’s financial sector is stripping that away. Earlier this week, pressured by senior leaders worried about…

Reporters Without Borders says at least 127 journalists are detained in China, as Beijing takes ever harsher line on media freedoms. At least 127 journalists – from major international news outlets to bloggers – are currently detained in China as the Chinese Communist Party continues a major crackdown on media…

Global wafer capacity investment expands to US$146 billion in 2021 The investment in the global wafer capacity will reach US$146 billion in 2021, which is 50% higher than the amount before the outbreak of epidemic and twice the amount in 2016. Chinese government seeks typical application scenarios for medical robot…