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China Keeps Buying American Soybeans Despite Tougher Talk
China continues to buy American soybeans despite worsening rhetoric from President Donald Trump over Hong Kong.
Japan’s Abe Says He’ll Take Lead on G7 Statement About Hong Kong
China lodged a protest with Japan after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wanted to set the course for a Group of Seven nations statement on Hong Kong over national security legislation that’s raised worries about the city’s future autonomy.
In Hong Kong, China Tries to Drown Out Security Law’s Critics (Published 2020)
Beijing has tapped local officials and business tycoons to sell a measure that could curtail the city’s civil and economic liberties and threaten its status as a financial center.
Attack on Taiwan an option to stop independence, top China general says
China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent, one of the country's most senior generals said on Friday, in a rhetorical escalation from China aimed at the democratic island Beijing claims as its own.
China Approves Plan to Rein In Hong Kong, Defying Worldwide Outcry (Published 2020)
Beijing ordered that a new law be written to extend many of mainland China’s security practices to Hong Kong, creating broad powers to quash unrest.
China's rich skirting Hong Kong to seek asset safety elsewhere
Rich Chinese are expected to park fewer funds in Hong Kong on worries that Beijing's proposed national security law for the city could allow mainland authorities to track and seize their wealth, bankers and other industry sources said.
Tycoon Li Ka Shing defends China’s proposed law as its sovereign
SE Asia News -HONG KONG • Hong Kong’s richest tycoon Li Ka Shing defended a national security law drafted by Beijing, in his first comment on the proposal that has triggered fresh protests in the
Hong Kong crisis: at least 360 arrested as China protests grow
Riot police flood city as pro-democracy groups protest against law criminalising ‘ridicule’ of Chinese anthem
China Battery Maker Suspended as Short Seller Questions Profits
A Chinese maker of electric vehicles plunged in Hong Kong after a critical report questioned the firm’s accounting.
China Tensions Spur $2 Billion of Bets on Currency Options
Foreign-exchange options traders anxious about worsening U.S.-China relations are using key currency proxies to hedge against the uncertainties.
Chinese state TV broke Ofcom rules with biased Hong Kong coverage
CGTN could face fine in UK for failing to represent anti-Beijing viewpoints during protests
China Traders Are Buying Hong Kong Stocks Like Never Before
Mainland money is flowing into Hong Kong’s stocks at an unparalleled pace, offering support to a market at the center of rising tensions between Beijing and Washington.
As Chinese authorities expand use of health tracking apps, privacy concerns grow
China's health tracking QR codes, which have played a key part in the country's successful containment of the coronavirus, now look set to play a much broader role in daily life as local authorities dream up new uses for the technology.
Exclusive: Cathay Pacific's brand merger hits roadblock from China's aviation regulator
China's aviation regulator may make it difficult for Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to merge regional arm Cathay Dragon into its main brand because of infractions during last year's pro-democracy protests, two sources said.
Hong Kong demand for VPNs surges on heels of China's plan for national security laws
Atlas VPN said installations of the tool that helps people bypass web restrictions surged again on Friday, up more than three-fold from the previous day, while search interest in the keyword term "VPN" rocketed 1,680% on May 21 from a day earlier.
China Luxury Home Buyers Seek Safety From Shanghai to Sydney
Rich Chinese home buyers are back.
Chinese Retail Tycoon’s Wumei Is Said to Consider Hong Kong IPO
Wumei Holdings Inc., the Chinese retail group that owns one of the country’s biggest supermarket chains, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong, people with knowledge about the matter said.
China is losing its patience with Australia, and that could spell bad news for the export market
Now Australia has firmly announced its opposition to China's new legal framework for Hong Kong, exporters are nervous about how new Chinese tariffs and regulations might affect Australian trade, Stephen Dziedzic writes.