Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Hong Kong to do “everything necessary” to contain a severe corona outbreak in the semi-autonomous city-state. Xi says in Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing press that aid would be coming from the Chinese capital. Deputy Prime Minister Han Zheng, who heads the Communist Party’s internal […]
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Russia, China and Iran have begun combat exercises in the northern Indian Ocean. It is the third joint exercise since 2019 when training took place in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman. “The exercise aims to strengthen security in the region and enhance cooperation between the three […]
The Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wants to pave the way for a third term in office for party leader and President Xi Jinping. The party’s 370 or so members gathered in Beijing on Monday for a four-day meeting to discuss a “historic resolution.” It is only the third […]
Epic Games, the hugely popular “Fortnite,” video game developer, has announced that it will shut down the game’s Chinese servers in mid-November. As a result, young people in China will no longer be able to play the game. Epic Games has not given an official reason for the decision, […]
China added 307 billionaires last year. In other words, almost every day, there is a new dollar billionaire in the country. This is evident from the new rich list of the Chinese magazine Hurun on Wednesday. The world’s second-largest economy now has a total of $1,185 billionaires. That number […]
Floods in northern China have killed at least 15 people. Meanwhile, most of the coal mines in the affected region have been restarted. However, the heavy rain made rescue efforts more difficult. In China, the northern provinces of Shanxi and Hebei are ravaged by heavy rainfall and flooding. In […]
The turnover of Chinese real estate developers collapsed in September due to the crisis at Evergrande. That faltering Chinese real estate group missed debt payments and could no longer pay suppliers. Evergrande is heavily indebted. There are fears of a knock-on effect from bankruptcies if the company goes bankrupt. […]
European companies are becoming increasingly concerned about China’s new economic course. They see “worrying signs” that the country’s economic focus is increasingly inward, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said. Jörg Wuttke believes that there are “significant doubts about the country’s future growth”. The […]
The new school year will start in China on Wednesday with a renewed national curriculum that incorporates the ideas of President Xi Jinping. Chinese children already received nationalistic and political lessons, but they were less focused on Xi’s ideas and ideas. Elementary school children, schoolchildren and college students will […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to “adjust excessively high incomes.” In doing so, he warns China’s super-rich that the state will redistribute their wealth to tackle the country’s growing inequality. The ruling comes amid a sweeping effort to curb Chinese multinationals. At a meeting of China’s Central Committee […]
