“Festive fever” is how the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre describes the national mood in the run-up to Chinese New Year on February 10th. A different fever troubles the government of Singapore: how to deal with China’s allegedly extensive influence operations in the city-state. This month a sweeping new law...
On February 7, the government cybersecurity and intelligence agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand said the Chinese government has for years been carrying out cyber operations, with state hackers “seeking to pre-position themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks” against their...
Guatemala has no intention of breaking diplomatic relations with Taiwan despite seeking closer economic links with China, President Bernardo Arevalo said on Thursday, pledging to boost ties with both players in parallel.
Guatemala is one of only a handful of nations that still maintains formal ties with Taiwan. Next-door Honduras...
Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, is “erasing” the suffering of the persecuted Uyghur minority from internet searches in China.
Results from the tech giant’s Bing search engine show how its Chinese users are presented with different results from American users.
And in the most egregious example, Bing image results for...
China's economy continues to trend in the wrong direction.
In the latest sign of the country's worsening deflation problem, fresh data showed consumer prices in China tumbled in January at the sharpest rate in 14 years.
The National Bureau of Statistics attributed the deflation numbers to floating holiday effects, given that...
Chinese coast guard vessels have been passing by Japanese-claimed waters for weeks in the East China Sea and China's warships have been edging near Japan's southwestern islands in recent days, Japanese officials said.
A fleet of four Chinese coast guard vessels on Thursday passed just outside of the territorial waters...
India would overtake China as the biggest driver of global oil demand in 2027 as transportation and industry consumption in the world’s fastest-growing major economy would drive growth despite a big push for clean energy and electrification, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.
The Paris-based agency in a...
China's consumer prices suffered their steepest fall in more than 14 years in January while producer prices also dropped, underscoring the persistent deflationary risks facing the world's second-biggest economy as it struggles to recover.
The consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.8% in January from a year earlier, after a 0.3%...
A new report by Tibetan activist groups and experts shows new evidence that the Chinese government is increasing digital surveillance of Tibetans through practices such as the mandatory installation of apps at police checkpoints or utilizing big data policing platforms supported by technologies from American tech firms.
Some analysts say...
China has sought to "cheat" and "steal" its way to matching Taiwan in chip technology, but has yet to succeed despite investing huge sums, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday, while holding out the prospect of more Taiwanese semiconductor investment in the U.S.
Taiwan's representative Alexander Yui...
