China’s Social Credit System

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Britain are stepping up calls for the World Health Organization to take a deeper look into the possible origins of COVID-19, including a new visit to China where the first human infections were…Read More

Germany is no longer Britain’s most important import market. For the first time since modern records began, the UK imported more goods from another country: China. During the first quarter of this year, the UK spend £16.9bn on Chinese goods, a jump of 66 per cent in the last three…

Keeping you up to date on the latest novel coronavirus (Covid-19) news from around the world. FOLLOW LIVE | Covid-19 in SA: 4 623 new cases, 101 more deaths Coronavirus toll at 10:00 (GMT) Thursday Paris – The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3 500 321 people since the…

People watch a movie in a cinema in Shanghai, China, July 20, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Action-movie star John Cena’s fulsome and abject apology for having offended China by referring in passing to Taiwan as a “country” while promoting his new movie F9 may have set a new low for cringing cravenness…

By Karina Shah Fossil cupules from an ancient plant unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China Gongle Shi Newly discovered plant fossils from China, dating back more than 125 million years, may help to establish which seed plants evolved into modern flowering plants. Flowering plants, known as angiosperms, dominate most land ecosystems,…

Key Takeaways: Luxury resale is booming in China, driven by younger consumers interested in sustainability, archive pieces, and owning hard-to-find pieces.Chinese luxury resale e-commerce platforms are attracting a flood of investment that could be applied to creating new brand extensions.Creating in-house fashion brands could help Chinese luxury resale sites carve…

What Happened: Move over, Jeff Bezos; there’s a bigger billionaire in town. On May 24, Forbes named fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault the world’s richest person with an estimated net worth of $186.3 billion, beating out the Amazon founder by $300 million. Tied over the weekend, the chief executive of LVMH…

(Philstar.com) - May 24, 2021 - 9:41pm MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday said Manila and Beijing will discuss in June the compensation for crew of the GemVer, the Filipino fishing boat rammed and sunk by a Chinese vessel in 2019.  Guevarra in a message said the…

Hawkish foreign policy is a losing game when China provides 70 percent of the world’s rare-earth supplies. May 24, 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch. Thanks to its very name—renewable…

2019: Australian intelligence services conclude that China was responsible for a cyber-attack on Australia's parliament and three largest political parties in the run-up to a May election. April 2020: Australian PM Scott Morrison begins canvassing his fellow world leaders for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Britain…