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比亚迪：1月新能源汽车销量同比增长361%-36氪
36氪获悉，比亚迪公告，1月新能源汽车销量93168辆，上年同期为20178辆，同比增长361.73%。
Volkswagen able to build 1 million EVs a year in China from 2023 -Nikkei
Volkswagen will be able to build 1 million electric vehicles a year in China in 2023, CEO of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand Ralf Brandstaetter told Nikkei on Wednesday, boosted by a new plant in Anhui province.
China Fortifies Its Borders With a ‘Southern Great Wall,’ Citing Covid-19
China is building up its walls in the south, creating a massive stretch of barriers along China’s 3,000-mile southern border. Officials claim “The Southern Great Wall” is meant to battle COVID-19, but critics claim the barrier will have long-lasting impacts on trade and travel.
京东：刘强东将向慈善机构捐赠23.4亿美元股票用于教育、环保，2003年已开始捐资助学-36氪
Ecommerce titan JD.com is staying on the right side of the government in the Year of the Tiger by directing money to “common prosperity” programs: Founder Richard Liu (刘强东 Liú Qiángdōng) will donate $2.34 billion in stock to third-party foundations for education and environmental protection, the company announced.
Drone company DJI obscured ties to Chinese state funding, documents show
DJI and SMIC are facing a fresh wave of scrutiny from Republican senators, who are ramping up pressure on the Biden administration to further restrict the flow of sensitive technology between the U.S. and China. Though drone-maker DJI and top chipmaker SMIC are both on the U.S. blacklist, recent reports of DJI’s concealed Chinese state funding and dangerous loopholes that give SMIC access to U.S. items have reignited national security concerns that their technologies may be used to advance China’s government and military.
No reason for Ukraine war fears, China tells UN meeting
“No reason for concern” over Ukraine, Beijing says: At the UN Security Council on January 31, China’s envoy, Zhāng Jūn 张军, downplayed the risk of war over Ukraine, and accused “the United States of obstructing efforts to resolve the crisis through dialogue,” the South China Morning Post reports. Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to solidify ties, and when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 meet in Beijing on February 4, they “could sign more than 15 agreements…with lots of new deals being prepared in relation to natural gas,” per Reuters.
See also:
In clash with U.S. over Ukraine, Putin has a lifeline from China / NYT (paywall) Beijing throws weight behind Moscow: China-Russia weekly update / SupChina
Japan parliament adopts resolution on human rights in China
China is not happy with Japan’s stance on Uyghurs, after Japan’s lower house of parliament passed a motion challenging China’s human rights abuses just days before Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics, Reuters reports. The motion “is extremely vile in nature, as it disregards facts and truth,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhào Lìjiān 赵立坚 said, as per Bloomberg.
See also:
As Beijing Olympics begin, exiled Uyghurs fight for families oppressed in China / LA Times A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK’d books / AP Uyghurs jailed for religious ‘crimes’ believed to be in Xinjiang women’s prison / RFA
Team Taiwan says it will be at Beijing Games opening ceremony
Team Taiwan will “cooperate” and attend the Beijing Olympics ceremonies after the I.O.C. told the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee that it was required to participate, Reuters reports. The reversal came after Team Taiwan had said last Friday that it would not be attending, amid growing concerns that China would use the ceremonies to make claims over the island’s disputed sovereignty.
China to strengthen anti-monopoly efforts in pharma industry
China will toughen law enforcement to curb monopoly practices and unfair competition in the pharmaceutical industry as the government seeks to foster a good business environment, the industry ministry said on Sunday.
China's smartphone market grows for 1st time in 5 years
Vivo snags crown as Huawei drops out of top 5
China’s Immunity Gap
What is the future of China’s COVID policy? Yanzhong Huang, a scholar of public health in China, writes critically in Foreign Affairs of what he views as China’s overemphasis on virus elimination and underemphasis on building up population immunity and “surge capacity” to handle a possibly inevitable wave of cases. As China moves toward reopening, it “could make effective COVID-19 antiviral pills widely available, and it could immediately approve the use of mRNA vaccines as booster shots for those who are immunosuppressed or over 65,” among other measures, to “reestablish a sustainable balance between protecting public health and allowing social and economic life to return to a normal trajectory.”
UK ‘looking closely’ at EU’s WTO case against China
A DIT spokesperson said any action would be evidence-based.
Gay dating app Grindr disappears from multiple app stores in China
Popular gay dating app Grindr has been removed from app stores in China, the latest victim of internet regulators’ purge of all content that does not sing the Party tune.
India Smartphone Market Records Highest Ever Shipments in 2021
India’s smartphone shipments grew 11% YoY to reach 169 million units in 2021, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service
Biden Promised to Confront China. First He Has to Confront America’s Bizarre Trade Politics.
When and how will the Biden administration make a proper China policy? First, it has to get past its infighting over trade policy. As Bob Davis reports at Politico, when it came to how to “confront America’s bizarre trade politics,” a “vague proposal was the only way that squabbling officials could come to a public consensus.” Separately, Axios has reported a previously undisclosed spat between U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and national security adviser Jake Sullivan last September, when Tai accused Sullivan of undermining him by prematurely announcing to the press that the Biden administration was considering additional tariffs on China — before Tai’s office had finished its review of trade policy.
Related on SupChina:
After calling Xi, Biden considers pressuring China over trade, Taiwan (September 13) Biden’s trade chief presses China to fulfill Trump agreement pledges, signals little change in tariffs (October 4)
Biden aides have Situation Room fight about China policy
The dispute between Katherine Tai and Jake Sullivan stunned onlookers.
Australia seeks to join WTO talks on China-EU trade row
Australia wants to join the EU at the WTO, as Europe seeks to challenge the legitimacy of China’s trade restrictions against Lithuania, per Reuters. “Australia has a substantial interest in the issues raised in the dispute brought by the European Union against China…and will request to join these consultations,” said trade minister Dan Tehan. The U.S. has also expressed support for the EU’s case, and the U.K. government has said it is taking a “close look,” according to Politico.
