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India bans Garena Free Fire, 53 more China-linked apps
India has banned about 50 more Chinese apps and games, including Tencent’s Xriver and NetEase’s Onmyoji Arena, the latest in a series of blocks and bans on national security grounds.
UN Labor Head Candidate Sees Space to Talk to China About Forced Labor
There is “space” to work with China, International Labor Organization (ILO) director general candidate Kang Kyung-wha said, after the organization released a report that voiced “deep concern” over China’s “discriminatory” policies in Xinjiang, per Bloomberg.
BlackRock Unit Gets Green Light to Join Personal Pension Trial in China
U.S. asset manager BlackRock’s China joint venture has received approval to sell pension products in Guangzhou and Chengdu for a one-year trial period.
Full text of a joint statement by S. Korean, U.S., Japanese foreign ministers | Yonhap News Agency
Tensions are high in the Indo-Pacific. The United States, South Korea, and Japan released a joint statement that opposes “any unilateral action that seeks to alter the status quo and increase tensions in the region,” after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “China has been acting more aggressively” at a Quad meeting on Friday.
Chinese Households Add $851 Billion to Savings in January
Household savings increased this January by 5.41 trillion yuan ($851 billion) year-on-year. The expansion of savings was attributed to growing year-end bonuses and sluggish consumer spending.
China’s Edutech Crackdown Expands to High-School Tutoring
China’s private online tutoring sector was recently banned from offering high school curriculum classes. With an approximate market value of $100 billion, Beijing is citing holiday celebrations for the regulatory crackdown. However, pressures against edutech firms, such as TAL, Gaotu Techedu Inc., Youdao Inc., and Zuoyebang, began back in July after the government deemed a “disorderly expansion of capital” in the sector.
China ‘deeply concerned’ about Uyghur militants in Afghanistan, ambassador says – The China Project
Zhang Jun, China’s envoy to the UN, raised concerns over a Security Council report on Afghanistan-based terrorism. The Uyghur militant group that Beijing is particularly concerned about, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), is not considered to be an organized threat by the U.S.
China’s top chipmaker races forward: Despite offering chips that are several generations behind global leaders, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced a net profit of 3.4 billion yuan ($537.1 million), a year-on-year increase of 172.7%, and projected that revenues for the first quarter of 2022 will increase by 15–17% month-on-month.
“个人存取现金超5万元需登记资金来源”引发关注 人民银行：不会影响居民正常现金存取款业务-新闻-上海证券报·中国证券网
Want to withdraw or deposit 50,000 yuan ($7,864) or more from a Chinese bank? Regulators are demanding that banks do additional due diligence on such customers as part of an ongoing campaign against money laundering and fraud.
India Prohibiting Drone Imports Effectively Blocks China’s DJI
India banned the import of drones, cutting off access to an emerging market for China’s DJI Technology, the world’s top consumer dronemaker.
China Evergrande CEO Cut His Bond Holdings Early in Crisis
The chief executive officer of China Evergrande Group pared his exposure to the embattled developer before its historic default. Xia Haijun sold bonds with a face value of $128 million in the early months of the company’s debt crisis. Rebecca Choong Wilkins reports on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia." (Source: Bloomberg)
China Plans More Rules to Ease Academic Burden on Children
China doubles down on “double reduction”: The Ministry of Education is planning “more rules to ease academic burden on children,” per Caixin. “In a plan for this year, the ministry said it will make more rules to supervise extra-curricular tutoring, boost enforcement and institutionalize its ‘double reduction’ campaign, which kicked off last July.”
China video site Bilibili to add 1,000 censors after worker dies
Bilibili plans to hire 1,000 content censors in a continued effort to deny accusations that the company was responsible for overworking a 25-year-old member to death last week, per Nikkei Asia. The young worker’s death sparked another round of criticism over China’s grueling work culture in the tech industry.
Yesterday on SupChina: Tech workers angered as Bilibili censors posts after employee’s death.
