On Wednesday, a member of the Arizona election audit team that has been heavily touted by former President Donald Trump revealed that its examination of the 2020 vote in Maricopa County will include a “forensic” analysis of ballots to determine if the paper is made of bamboo—in order to determine whether or not China delivered…
Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is negotiating agreements with a U.S. national security panel that would allow it to keep its ownership stakes in U.S. video game developers Riot Games and Epic Games, according to people familiar with the matter.Tencent has been in talks with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which…
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – If you sue China, don’t bother mailing the service process.Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch recently learned the hard way that the government would reject it.About a year after filing suit against the nation of more than a billion people, Fitch has been given more time to serve process, after the Chinese…
A weekly digest of the stories you should be following in China this week, plus exclusive analysis, written by Foreign Policy’s senior editor and former Beijing correspondent James Palmer. Delivered Wednesday.Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.The highlights this week: An offensive Weibo post triggers a backlash in India, what to believe about China’s population numbers,…
China expressed concern on Wednesday over India’s move to not grant any Chinese firm permission to participate in 5G trials in the world’s second-largest internet market as the two neighboring nations struggle to navigate business ties amid their geo-political tensions.India’s Department of Telecommunications earlier this week approved over a dozen firms’ applications to conduct a…
image copyrightWeTV image captionLelush’s deadpan expressions have since graced many a meme in ChinaBeing kicked out of a reality TV show might not be something to celebrate, but for one Russian man it was a dream come true – and the latest twist in his unlikely journey to becoming an icon for Chinese slackers.Vladislav Ivanov…
A general view shows the buildings of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas PeterThe resumption of student visa applications at U.S. missions in China got off to an acrimonious start this week when netizens took exception to an American embassy social media post they interpreted as likening Chinese students to dogs.Former…
Global foreign direct investment flows ebbed to a 15-year low last year and China, one of the few major economies to eke out growth, overtook the United States as the top destination, OECD data showed on Friday.As the coronavirus wreaked havoc on the global economy, global FDI flows dropped 38% in 2020 to $846 billion,…
HomeAsiaNews30 APR 2021Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark (pictured) used the vendor’s Q1 earnings call yesterday (29 April) to vow it will bid in the next round of network tenders in China later this year.The CEO highlighted the competitiveness of China, a market he previously stated was an important target for Nokia.“We will participate in the upcoming…
New York-listed BlueCity, the developer of Chinese LGBTQ+ dating app Blued, has obtained a license to launch an internet hospital in China focusing on men’s healthcare.WHAT THEY DOHe Health, the company’s healthcare platform for men, started promoting men’s health and HIV prevention awareness in 2019. Since then, it expanded its services to the field of…
