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Next China: Xi Marks Communist Party's 100th Anniversary With Warning
China’s Communist Party turns 100 this month, and President Xi Jinping celebrated Thursday by telling the world that any would-be foreign oppressors would break their heads against a “steel Great Wall.”
Belt and Road Initiative
A visual explainer of the five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative via @scmpgraphics
Fewer have confidence in China’s Xi than US’s Biden: Pew survey
Positive views of the US got a Biden bounce across 17 advanced economies, while negative views of China and Xi persist.
Hong Kong freedoms fade as security law muzzles dissent
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is still China’s wealthiest, most capitalist city. Its vistas of skyscraper and sea framed by dragon-backed emerald peaks are as stunning as ever. But a year after Beijing imposed a harsh national security law on the former British colony, the civil liberties that raised hopes for more democracy among many of its 7 million people are fading.
Didi Said to Guide Pricing U.S. IPO at Top of Range or Above
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. is telling investors it plans to price shares in its U.S. initial public offering at or above the top of a marketed range, according to people familiar with the matter.
Russia, China declare friendship treaty extension, hail ties
MOSCOW (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China on Monday hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of a 20-year-old friendship treaty, a show of unity amid their tensions with the West.
Nissan Electric-Car UK Production to Expand, to Upgrade Battery Factory
Nissan Motor Co.’s Chinese battery partner plans a U.K. project “very soon,” according to its chief executive officer, amid expectations that the Japanese carmaker will forge ahead with expansion plans in Britain.
Hong Kong to ban passenger flights from UK to curb virus
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus. It said in a statement Monday that the U.K.
China’s Envision to Build Renault $2.4 Billion Battery Plant
China’s Envision Group plans to spend as much as 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) on a battery plant in northern France to power an affordable range of Renault SA electric vehicles.
China says no strings attached to vaccine shipments overseas
BEIJING (AP) — China said Saturday that it provides vaccines to other countries with no political conditions attached, responding to a story by The Associated Press saying China pressured Ukraine into withdrawing from a multi-country statement on human rights in China’s Xinjiang region by threatening to withhold a COVID-19 vaccine shipment.
AP Exclusive: Diplomats say China puts squeeze on Ukraine
GENEVA (AP) — China pressured Ukraine into withdrawing its support for a call for more scrutiny of human rights in China's western region of Xinjiang by threatening to withhold Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines destined for Ukraine unless it did so, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.
China’s Worse-Than-Suez Ship Delays Set to Widen Trade Chaos
The global shipping industry, already exhausted by pandemic shocks that are adding to inflation pressures and delivery delays, faces the biggest test of its stamina yet.
Rusal sees China's recycled aluminium output almost tripling by 2030
China's production of secondary aluminium will almost triple by the end of this decade if all announced recycling projects come to fruition, Rusal said on Wednesday, as the country caps primary smelting capacity and looks to reduce emissions.
Lawyers urge ICC to probe alleged crimes against Uyghurs
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of lawyers presented a dossier of evidence Thursday to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court that they say establishes jurisdiction for the global tribunal to investigate allegations Chinese authorities are involved in grave crimes targeting Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group.
China’s Wolf Warriors Are Turning the World Against Beijing
The country seems incapable of abandoning a disastrous diplomatic strategy.
She Built $11 Billion Fortune From an Acid. Now She's Taking on Beauty Giants.
China’s Bloomage got cosmetics makers hooked on hyaluronic acid. Now it’s competing with them.
China defends Hungary university plan following protest
BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday defended a plan to build a university in Hungary, saying critics who protested against it in Budapest over the weekend shouldn't politicize and stigmatize normal exchanges between the two countries.
UK 'people's tribunal' hears claims China abused Uyghurs
LONDON (AP) — A “people’s tribunal” set up to assess whether China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people constitute genocide opened in London on Friday, with witnesses alleging that inmates at detention camps for Uyghurs were routinely humiliated, tortured and abused.
Uyghur exiles describe forced abortions, torture in Xinjiang
ISTANBUL (AP) — Three Uyghurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against ethnic Uyghurs amount to genocide.