Hundreds of Muslims in north-western China are engaged in a standoff with authorities to prevent their mosque from being demolished. Officials said the newly built Weizhou Grand Mosque in the Ningxia region had not been given proper building permits. But worshippers refused to back down – one resident said they “won’t let the government touch […]
Google bosses were scrambling to contain leaks and internal anger on Wednesday after the company’s confidential plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China was revealed by The Intercept. Just a few hundred of Google’s massive 88,000-strong workforce had been briefed on the project prior to the revelations, which triggered a […]
Prepping for a conflict with China has become an all of government effort and China Watch has a good idea of how and when it’s going to play out. And it involves the vigorous island democracy and Pentagon asset known as Taiwan! Circle your calendar for 2020 and stock up on canned goods and lead […]
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese blockbuster hopeful backed by Alibaba Pictures Group and with a reported budget of over $ 100 million, was abruptly pulled from cinemas after a lackluster opening weekend at the box office. The move highlights the challenges facing China as it seeks to promote home-grown productions to rival imported Hollywood films. […]
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The U.S. made its case at the Shangri La security conference in Singapore for continued America strategic leadership in 21st century Asia. It the case solid? Or is it what Shakespeare called “sound and fury signifying nothing”? America is clearly losing control of the master narrative for North Korean engagement. Korean affairs at present are […]
Delivering the goods LATE on a Monday morning the village of Zhangwei is quiet. Chickens scratch and cluck at the side of the road. Workers use wooden spades to spread grain on the highway to dry, using half its width so that traffic can still pass on the other side. Yet at the community centre […]
China has warned that all trade talks between Beijing and Washington will be void if the US sets up trade sanctions. After talks between Vice Premier Liu He and US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, China said it was ready to boost imports from many countries. Mr Ross’s China visit comes days after Washington threatened to […]
It was another busy week for BS in pundit land as the West’s Korea experts scrambled to make sense (or nonsense) out of Donald Trump’s latest episode in diplomacy via abusive correspondence: the Trump letter canceling the June 12 Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un. Experts, pundits, and media types scrambled to explain the titanic […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Chinese and U.S. envoys sparred at the World Trade Organization on Monday over U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that China steals American ideas, the subject of two lawsuits and a White House plan to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed memorandum on […]