What Engagement With China Has Meant for Me

wsj.com Over the past decade, the relationship between the U.S. and China has gone from a symbiotic embrace—“Chimerica,” as some academics called it—to an ominous mutual rejection.…

Hong Kong Set To Become Crypto Trading Hub, Opens Exchange Licensing Ahead Of Retail Trading

zerohedge.com Hong Kong Set To Become Crypto Trading Hub, Opens Exchange Licensing Ahead Of Retail Trading After years of brutal crackdowns, crypto trading is coming back to China... or…

US Secretary of State Blinken said peace talks shouldn't happen in Ukraine until Kyiv is strong enough to do it themselves

businessinsider.com US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers his speech at the Helsinki City Hall, Finland Friday, June 2, 2023. (Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva via AP) U.S. Secretary of State…

U.S. Defense Chief Rebukes China for Being Unwilling to Engage

wsj.com Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived Friday for the opening dinner at an annual security forum in Singapore. SINGAPORE—Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebuked China after…

China’s answer to Boeing and Airbus isn’t as ‘homegrown’ as it seems. Here’s why

edition.cnn.com China is claiming a historic win this week after its answer to Boeing and Airbus, the C919, took to the skies for its first commercial flight. Beijing calls the aircraft its…

Investors Have Soured on China’s Stocks, Renewing Fears About Economy

nytimes.com Data have been mixed about the performance of China’s factories, which are a bellwether of the economy. They initially reacted enthusiastically to China’s reversal of…

Rumors Of Tesla Model 3 Revamp Reveal Die Out As Musk Ends China Trip

insideevs.com Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ended his visit to China yesterday without unveiling the refreshed Model 3 – a.k.a. Project Highland – as reported. The billionaire was spotted…

Old-Fashioned Weapons Are a Key to Taiwan’s Defense

wsj.com Soldiers deploy an unmanned aerial vehicle during a drill simulating a military intrusion by Beijing in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Jan 11. A confrontation in the Indo-Pacific…

CIA Chief Made Secret Visit To China To Salvage Spiraling Relations

zerohedge.com CIA Chief Made Secret Visit To China To Salvage Spiraling Relations CIA director Bill Burns recently made a secret trip to China in an attempt to rescue deteriorating…

House lawmakers urge US to rally allies over China Micron ban

reuters.com The Republican chairmen of two House of Representatives panels on Friday urged President Joe Biden's administration to rally U.S. allies including Japan and South Korea to…

White House wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control in post-treaty world

pbs.org The Biden administration is ready to talk to Russia without conditions about a future nuclear arms control framework even while taking countermeasures in response to the…

Finding the Tank Man in Ourselves on the Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre

newsweek.com They have been continually rumbling in my mind and heart since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre 34 years ago. We will commemorate the anniversary Sunday. In the spring of…

Musk leaves China after whirlwind trip filled with praise and politics

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article HONG KONG — A figure of growing controversy in the United…

Elon Musk says his Shanghai factory makes the ‘highest quality’ Teslas

edition.cnn.com Tesla CEO Elon Musk has wrapped up his first trip to China in three years, after meeting a string of government officials and thanking workers at the company’s mega factory…

COVID-19 Testing Resumes In Beijing, Shandong, As Reinfection Cases Surge

zerohedge.com COVID-19 Testing Resumes In Beijing, Shandong, As Reinfection Cases Surge Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, China has resumed COVID-19 PCR testing in Beijing and…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk praises Shanghai employees for meeting him near midnight after blasting the U.S. ‘laptop class’ on working from home

finance.yahoo.com Near the end of his short trip to China, Elon Musk made a late Wednesday night stop at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory to say a few words to his staff. More from Fortune: 5…

CIA Director Bill Burns took a secret trip to China in May

nbcnews.com WASHINGTON — CIA Director William Burns visited Beijing last month, his first trip to China since becoming the head of the intelligence agency for the Biden administration,…

Hong Kong’s crypto rules offer level playing field: OSL

forkast.news Hong Kong on June 1 introduced cryptocurrency trading guidelines for retail investors under a new set of licensing rules for what are referred to as virtual asset trading…

CIA director made unannounced trip to Beijing last month

axios.com CIA director Bill Burns made an unannounced trip to China last month, a U.S. official confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: The trip to Beijing, which was first reported by…

How Chinese Dissent Found Its Voice in New York City

wsj.com A bloody shirt, ripped banners and other evidence of Beijing’s June 4, 1989, crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square went on display this week in New York City, in the…

No U.S.-China talks risks 'devastating' outcomes: Australian PM

asia.nikkei.com SINGAPORE - A breakdown in communication between the U.S. and China raises the risk of "devastating" implications in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, Australian Prime…

There's a global backlash brewing against the US dollar as world leaders say it's being weaponized for American interests

fortune.com All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar. Brazil and China recently struck a deal to settle trade in their local currencies, seeking…

US push to curb investment in Chinese chips and AI is ‘harmful’, Beijing says

scmp.com Washington is said to be preparing regulations to curb investment into ‘critical sectors’, a move experts said would reduce capital flows and which Beijing said is ‘harmful…

CIA chief made secret visit to China in bid to thaw relations

ft.com Bill Burns’ trip last month was most senior to Beijing by Biden administration official

Over 100 Chinese Cities Battling to Repay Their Debts: Rhodium

asiafinancial.com More than 100 Chinese cities faced difficulty in servicing their debts last year, according to a report by Rhodium Group. The findings of the US economics and policy…

The Morning Risk Report: Twitter to Face Stress Test This Month

createsend.com Good morning. European Union regulators plan to subject Twitter to a stress test to determine how well it complies with Europe’s new digital-content law, a top EU tech…

Meet Sunny Balwani: Theranos No. 2 and Elizabeth Holmes' ex-boyfriend who's serving a 13-year prison sentence and was just ordered to pay $452 million in…

businessinsider.com With Elizabeth Holmes, former Theranos president and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is on the hook for $452 million in restitution to victims of Theranos' fraud. Justin…

Dollar dominance isn't going anywhere. Here are 5 myths about de-dollarization

markets.businessinsider.com is placed next to $100 banknotes in this picture illustration taken in Beijing Nov. 1, 2010. Reuters/Petar Kujundzic The dollar's dominance isn't at risk, three currency…

The Richest Self-Made Women

statista.com Women from China and Hong Kong used to dominated the list of the richest self-made female billionaires, but with the Chinese market in turmoil in many areas, self-made women…

BRICS Looking to Counter Sanctions With Alternative Currencies

asiafinancial.com The BRICS nations, which include two of Asia’s largest economies, are looking to explore alternative currencies with an aim to tackle the impacts of sanctions, a top…

The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest

theguardian.com A handful of global giants dominate the industrialisation of the Amazon rainforest, extracting tens of billions of dollars of raw materials every year, according to an…

China’s quandary: Bail out debt-laden cities, or risk disruptive defaults?

washingtonpost.com In the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a full-page newspaper advert called out companies owing money to the city government. There were reports — quickly denied — of an…

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon visits Taiwan to meet staff, clients: source

theglobeandmail.com Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM-N, is visiting Taiwan on Friday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, his first trip to…

'It warms my heart': Elon Musk thanks Shanghai workers for meeting at midnight

fortune.com Near the end of his short trip to China, Elon Musk made a late Wednesday night stop at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory to say a few words to his staff. Tesla’s CEO had kind…

How the U.S.-China clash is being felt on campus

nbcnews.com Students like See have been slow to return to China, where there were only about 350 Americans studying in the most recent academic year, according to State Department…

China's Ukraine envoy urges countries to ‘stop sending weapons to the battlefield,’ negotiate peace

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article China’s Ukraine envoy appealed Friday to other governments to…

Chinese censors remove protest site Sitong Bridge from online maps

theguardian.com Chinese censors scrubbing the internet of any words or symbols that could be used to reference the Tiananmen Square massacre in the run-up to Sunday’s anniversary have a new…

Lululemon reports a 79% jump in China sales

fortune.com Lululemon Athletica was off to a great start in 2023—and China is a big reason why. The Vancouver-based activewear company reported a strong first quarter and an upbeat…

Asia Rocked by More Record Heat in May as Climate Woes Rise

asiafinancial.com More Asian states were hit by extreme temperatures in May, which broke records and raised doubt on nations ability to adapt to the climate crisis. Temperatures soared again…

Montana Is Writing the Playbook on How To Deal With China

newsweek.com Montana just took an important step to protect its citizens from authoritarian regimes. By now everyone has heard that the state banned TikTok—and of course TikTok has sued…

Chinese EV startup Li Auto says car deliveries more than doubled in May

cnbc.com A Li Auto store inside a shopping mall in Yantai, Shandong province on May 6, 2023. BEIJING — Chinese electric car startup Li Auto said it delivered more than twice as many…

The Saudis want the US to help build a ‘nuclear Aramco’

semafor.com The Scoop Riyadh has proposed to visiting American leaders developing a joint U.S.-Saudi project to build the country’s civilian nuclear energy program, four people briefed…

How Adidas Uncanceled Yeezy

gq.com On Wednesday, for the first time in over seven months, sneakerheads put aside their love-hate relationship with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, and resumed a…

Farm animals, crops suffer from extreme weather affecting China

edition.cnn.com With parts of China experiencing record high temperatures and heavy rains, reports of farm animals and crops suffering from extreme weather patterns are dominating headlines…

Putin’s War Ignites Backlash Against US Dollar Across the World

finance.yahoo.com All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar. • None China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into the Earth • None Wall Street Banks…

iPhone in India: Foxconn to manufacture smartphones in Karnataka by April 2024

bbc.co.uk Apple's biggest supplier Foxconn will start manufacturing iPhones in the southern Indian state of Karnataka by April next year, the state government has said. The firm has…

Bank of China chairman visits PNG amid Sino-U.S. rivalry

asia.nikkei.com Bank of China chairman Ge Haijiao has traveled to Papua New Guinea (PNG) as the world's fourth-largest bank seeks an operating license in the Pacific islands nation, which…

U.S.-China ties weigh on security summit as defense chiefs meet in Singapore

cnbc.com "Any meeting between Austin and Li would reassure other countries in the region, but I don't think it would change the security dynamic or the potential for instability."…

China Won’t Save the U.S. From Recession This Time

wsj.com Beijing’s supply-side stimulus eased the 2009 contraction, but don’t expect another one.

Newly approved US flights by Chinese airlines avoid Russian airspace

reuters.com Chinese airlines are avoiding flying over Russian airspace in newly approved flights to and from the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware and…

Partial U.S.-Taiwan trade deal is a first step, but China still hates it

washingtonpost.com The United States and Taiwan signed a modest trade agreement Thursday, underscoring Washington’s commitment to the self-governing island that China claims as its own. The…

Elon Musk wraps up his China visit after meeting with government ministers and a late night visit to the Tesla Gigafactory

fortune.com Elon Musk’s private jet has departed Shanghai, wrapping up his first visit to China since the pandemic and topping a whirlwind trip that included a flurry of meetings with…

Chinese airlines avoiding Russian airspace in new U.S. flights

theglobeandmail.com Chinese airlines are avoiding transiting Russian airspace in newly approved flights to and from the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware and…