Northern China. Empty roads, a lunar panorama, a ghost city. A woman, behind the window of her apartment in a ten-floor building in the centre of Xi’an, the capital of the province of Shaanxi on the border with Hubei, the...
As Chinese President Xi Xinping pursues deity-like cult status in China, he is following some of history’s most notorious leaders – Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong (aka Mao Tse-tung) to name three of the last century’s worst dictators....
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has the “potential to cause severe economic and market dislocation”, according to Neil Shearing, the chief economist of research company, Capital Economics. The outbreak has caused stock market fears that the there will be a new...
The worldwide use of mobile technology has increased by over 200% in the past five years, making building out a 5G mobile network for the American mobile market imperative. It’s critical for businesses to remain competitive and important for citizens....
Much of the discussion of potential Chinese aggression focuses on their weaponry. New and faster missiles can sound scary and fast fighter jets have captured imaginations for a hundred years. Sometimes this fear might be entirely justified, or sometimes it...
The recently-signed US-China Phase One trade deal is already imperiled: not by politics, but by the novel coronavirus outbreak. Beijing was set to buy $18.5 billion worth of American energy products in 2020 and additional $34 billion next year, but...
China has reported a new outbreak of H5N1 (avian flu) in a poultry farm in Shaoyang, Southern Hunan Province, near the coronavirus-hit Hubei Province. No cases of avian flu in humans have been reported so far. Details Of Avian Flu...
As Chinese leaders quarantine cities across the country to contain the coronavirus, they have another storm brewing: China’s economic outlook is becoming bleaker with every passing week. The Coronavirus Is Hurting Sectors Of China’s Economy The multiplier effect from the...
Continuing protests have placed Hong Kong at the risk of loss of talent and a long-term outflow of capital, which are the two key ingredients to its economic success.
The end of the new coronavirus seems to still be out of sight as more infections and deaths continue to be reported in China especially in Hubei province where the virus reportedly originated in the capital city of Wuhan. The...