Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now.Violent unrest in Kazakhstan, coupled with a Russian-led military intervention to prop up Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, the country’s embattled president, has already left its mark…
SINGAPORE – Singapore should prepare for “easily” up to 30 years of competition between the United States and China, which could take the form of skirmishes off the sea or proxy wars, said former foreign minister George Yeo on Tuesday (Jan 11).To avoid being caught in between and to maintain sovereignty, he suggested that Singapore…
Plenty of places claim they are Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley: Stockholm boasts the most unicorns per capita, and London is the continent’s VC hub. But only the small Dutch town of Veldhoven—whose population numbers 45,000—is home to the closest thing Europe has to a big tech giant.From its unassuming base near the Belgian border,…
The Yanghai burial in northwest China, with the leather scale armor circled in red. (Image credit: Dongliang Xu/Turfan Museum)About 2,500 years ago, a man in northwest China was buried with armor made of more than 5,000 leather scales, a military garment fashioned so intricately, its design looks like the overlapping scales of a fish, a…
SINGAPORE: A couple from China who were sentenced to jail for obstructing COVID-19 contact tracers in Singapore have thrown in the towel after almost two years of fighting their case in court.They discontinued their appeals on Tuesday (Jan 11) and will begin serving their jail terms in the coming months.China national Hu Jun, 40, will begin his…
US chipmaker Intel has deleted references to Xinjiang from an annual letter to suppliers after the company faced a backlash in China for asking suppliers to avoid the sanctions-hit region.Last month, Intel was slammed on Chinese social media for a letter to suppliers published on its website. The 23 December letter said Intel had been…
Author: Kerry Brown, King’s College LondonIn 2021 China was, and in 2022 again will be, dominated by the domestic economy, relations with the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic and President Xi Jinping. Despite spectacular bounce-back growth in the first half of the year, China’s economy had slowed dramatically by year’s end. Worries centred on the…
The China Passenger Car Association reported booming December electric vehicle sales on Tuesday, with record Tesla (TSLA) local deliveries. Tesla stock edged higher Tuesday, while China EV rivals rebounded solidly.XTesla China sales hit 70,847 in December, with only 245 vehicles exported. Typically, Tesla reports its highest local deliveries in the third month of the quarter,…
A third Chinese city has locked down its residents because of a COVID-19 outbreak, raising the number confined to their homes in China to about 20 million people.Key points:China’s Omicron surge comes just weeks before the Lunar New Year, a major travel period A Beijing Olympics official says the Games could be impacted by increasing case…
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