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☆ The Chinese Site That Rewired Online Shopping
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Daisuke Wakabayashi | Claire Fu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Pinduoduo, the Chinese discount shopping app, debuted nearly a decade ago, the tech giants Alibaba and JD.com dominated China’s e-commerce business. It was a combination of a game arcade, a shopping mall and a social network. Like TikTok, Temu is the foreign version of a highly successful Chinese company. As its popularity has grown in the United States, its business practices have also come under scrutiny. It has encountered criticism for its labor practices and failure to enforce intellectual property laws.

Persons: Pinduoduo, haven’t Locations: Temu, China, United States, U.S

☆ Mitch McConnell's support of the TikTok bill is a big deal, but that doesn't mean the app is doomed
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The head of the GOP Senate caucus cast his support on Monday for the TikTok bill. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared his support on Monday for a bill circulating through Congress that would effectively ban TikTok, but the app's immediate demise is no guarantee. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: there's, —, Mitch McConnell, McConnell Organizations: GOP, Service, Microsoft, Business Locations: China

☆ The proposed TikTok ban has been deemed unconstitutional by some, but framing around national security could help advance it
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThe widely-popular social media app TikTok is once again facing a possible ban in the United States over concerns about its links to China. "It is targeted to address the national security threat that we believe these apps, like TikTok, pose to the United States because of its ownership by a foreign adversary." "The First Amendment protects Americans' right to access social media platforms of their choosing," Krishnan said. Former President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Okla. AP Photo/Sue OgrockiTrump once supported a TikTok ban, but is now against itMeanwhile, Trump — whose administration tried to ban TikTok in the US — but was blocked from doing so in court after TikTok sued — has now come out against a ban for the app. "If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business," Trump argued on his social media platform, Truth Social, in a dig at Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Sarah Kreps, TikTok's, weaponize, Steve Scalise, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, McMorris Rodgers, Kreps, ByteDance, Krishnan, TikTok, Sue Ogrocki Trump, Trump, Zuckerschmuck, Mark Zuckerberg, Jenna Leventoff, Leventoff Organizations: Service, Business, Tech, Institute, New York's Cornell University, Foreign, ByteDance Ltd, Republican, GOP, House Energy, Commerce Committee, Fox Business, Columbia University, Columbia Law School, Chinese Communist Party, AP, Facebook, Meta, Commerce, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy and Technology Locations: United States, China, TikTok's Beijing, New York, Tulsa, Okla, TikTok

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports and imports for the first two months of the year beat estimates, an indication that demand may be improving as Beijing attempts to boost economic recovery. Exports for the January-February period grew 7.1% from a year earlier, customs data released Thursday showed, higher than the 2.3% rise in December. Imports rose 3.5% from the same time last year, up from a 0.2% growth in December. Demand for Chinese exports has also been weak since the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia began raising interest rates last year to cool inflation that was at multi-decade highs. China has set a target of around 5% for economic growth this year, Chinese Premier Li Qiang revealed this week at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress.

Persons: Li Qiang Organizations: —, Beijing, Federal Reserve, PMI, National People’s Congress Locations: HONG KONG, China, Europe, Asia

☆ Raising a child in China is 50% less affordable than in the US, Beijing think-tank says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementThe think-tank said it calculated child-raising costs in China using 2023 data from the National Bureau of Statistics. AdvertisementIn total, raising a child until they are 18 costs Chinese families an average of 538,312 yuan, or about $73,000, Yuwa said. Middle-income families in the US are projected to spend $233,610 raising a child until they are 18, per the USDA. AdvertisementNotably, the average cost of raising a child in China fell slightly compared to Yuwa's 2022 report on the same topic. The think-tank said data from 2019 showed that the average cost was $76,000, or about seven times the country's GDP per capita at the time.

Persons: —, Liang Jianzhang, Huang Wenzheng, Yafu, Yuwa's, Yuwa Organizations: Service, Business, National Bureau of Statistics, Department of, Ministry of Health and Welfare Locations: China, Japan, Beijing, South Korea, Shanghai

☆ Happy New Year of the Dragon - or Loong?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

This year, it’s the Year of the Dragon, or more accurately, the “Year of the Loong,” says Chinese state media, using its preferred term for the mythical beast. The Chinese “loong” conjures positivity, nobleness and fortune and therefore should be distinguished linguistically from its Western cousin, state media argues. Chinese media has dedicated coverage and airtime to promote the new nomenclature over the past week or so, though both “dragon” and “loong” are being used interchangeably in English-language reports. “Transcribing long into English ‘loong’ would cause more problems and confusion than translating it as ‘dragon’,” he wrote. He noted that “some patriotic and political sources in the Sinosphere” have been peddling the concept that the Western dragon is fearful.

Persons: ”, Loong ”, it’s, loong, “ loong, Xi Jinping, Loong, John Lee, Wong Tai, Alex Chan Tsz Yuk, Elliott, Bradford Lee Eden, Eden, Eduardo Leal, ‘, Weibo, Victor Mair, Mair, “ loong ”, ” Eden, “ Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Disney, Xinhua, of Library Services, Valparaiso University ,, Tolkien Research, Getty, University of Pennsylvania, Valparaiso University Locations: China, Hong Kong, Beijing, Valparaiso University , Indiana, Macau, Weibo, West

☆ Mideast Crisis Blinken Takes Bid to Avoid Wider War to Qatar and Egypt
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Zolan Kanno-Youngs | Erin Mendell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

At the U.N. Security Council on Monday, China’s ambassador, Zhang Jun, broadly accused the United States of using excessive force around the world and manipulating public opinion about its intentions. The Security Council has frequently been a platform for U.S. and Russia’s spats over Ukraine, Syria and, most recently, the war in Gaza. “Iran has never sought to bring its dispute with the United States into Iraq’s territory,” Mr. Iravani told the Council, reiterating Iran’s stance that it does not seek a war with the United States. Algeria, the only Arab member of the Council, has drafted a new resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. The attacks killed 1,200 people and led to the abduction to Gaza of 240 others, Israeli officials said.

Persons: Zhang Jun, Vladimir V, Putin, Russia’s, Vasily Nebenzya, Biden, Nebenzya, “, ” Robert Wood, Mr . Wood, ”, Saeid Iravani, Mr, Iravani, Rosemary DiCarlo Organizations: . Security, United Nations Security, Security, Pentagon, Israel Locations: United States, Russia, China, Iraq, Syria, East, U.S, Ukraine, Gaza . China, Iran, The U.S, Israel, Gaza, Jordan, Middle East, America, Red, Tehran, Algeria

One focus of the talks was fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that is ravaging America, and in particular ingredients for the drug that are made in China. The U.S. wants China to do more to curb the export of chemicals that it says are processed into fentanyl, largely in Mexico, before the final product is smuggled into the United States. But China refused to discuss cooperation unless the U.S. lifted sanctions on the Public Security Ministry's Institute of Forensic Science. The U.S. quietly agreed to lift the sanctions to get cooperation on fentanyl. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called it “an appropriate step to take” given what China was willing to do on the trafficking of fentanyl precursors.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, Wang Xiaohong, ”, Jen Daskal, Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Wang Yi, Matthew Miller Organizations: BEIJING, Chinese Public Security, U.S ., U.S, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, ., Biden, Senate, Public Security Ministry's Institute of Forensic Science, The Commerce Department, State Department Locations: U.S, America, China, San Francisco, Taiwan, Mexico, United States, Beijing, China’s Xinjiang, The U.S

☆ 25 experts calculated the scenarios they think could play out in the US-China relationship. All the results are bleak.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewThe future of US-China relations looks grim, according to a new report by a group of 25 experts on both countries. And US scientists might find a mysterious avian flu in China, while China detains five Americans on accusations that they broke the law. Advertisement"Instead, the war scenario is a scenario of increasing crises leading to increasing distrust in diplomatic solutions," he said. 2) A zero-sum bloc gameOr US-China trade could fall to all-time lows by the late 2020s, with competition ramping up over AI, quantum computers, and other technology, the analysis said. Seyle emphasized that the analysis isn't presenting forecasts, but theoretical scenarios that hit areas of concern in broad strokes.

Persons: —, Trump, Pax Sapiens, Conor Seyle, BRICS, Saudi Arabia —, calculatingly, Seyle, Ren Libo, Adam Kahane of Organizations: Service, Business, Obama, People's Liberation Army, Observers, Pentagon, Pax Sapiens, WTO, Grandview Institute, Adam Kahane of Massachusetts, Reos Partners Locations: China, Beijing, Washington, Taiwan, Taipei, Pax, Europe, Asia Pacific, Brazil, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, America, Africa, United States, Latin America, Southeast Asia, US

Many countries are working on them — and neither China, Russia, Iran, India or Pakistan have signed a U.S.-initiated pledge to use military AI responsibly. Another AI project at Space Force analyzes radar data to detect imminent adversary missile launches, he said. One urgent challenge, says Jane Pinelis, chief AI engineer at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab and former chief of AI assurance in Martell’s office, is recruiting and retaining the talent needed to test AI tech. Testing and evaluation standards are also immature, a recent National Academy of Sciences report on Air Force AI highlighted. Might that mean the U.S. one day fielding under duress autonomous weapons that don’t fully pass muster?

Persons: —, Replicator —, Kathleen Hicks, ”, Gregory Allen, we’ve, Missy Cummings, George Mason, Lisa Costa, Wallace ‘ Rhet ’ Turnbull, Tom Siebel, Matt Visser, Palantir, Jack Shanahan, Maven, Mark Milley, Christian Brose, Paul Scharre, ” Anduril, Nathan Michael, Michael, Shanahan, Craig Martell, Martell, Jane Pinelis, “ Organizations: U.S ., Russia, Air Force, China, Pentagon, Department of Defense, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Navy, ” U.S . Space Force, Space Force, Space Systems Command, Blackhawk, ., U.S . Missile Defense Agency, Defense Counterintelligence, Security Agency, Third Infantry Division, NATO, Maven, National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency, U.S . Special Operations, ISIS, Command, Control, Chiefs, Armed Services Committee, U.S, Marines, Special Forces, Industry, BAT, Marine Expeditionary, Pentagon AI, LinkedIn, Johns Hopkins, Lab, National Academy of Sciences Locations: Md, Ukraine, U.S, China, Russia, Iran, India, Pakistan, ” U.S, Silicon Valley

☆ Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Eileen Sullivan | More About Eileen Sullivan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China. Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. Once there, they turn themselves in to border officials and many seek asylum. Chinese citizens are more successful than people from other countries with their asylum claims in immigration court. And those who are not end up staying anyway because China usually will not take them back.

Locations: United States, China, Mexico, Ecuador, Central, South America, Colombia, Panama

☆ China's plan to seize on global chaos and supplant the US may be working
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

China's Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden are meeting in San Francisco at the APEC summit. AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden seems keen to ease tensions with his main global rival, China's leader Xi Jinping, against a backdrop of global chaos and conflict. Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose with heads of delegations participating in the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 18, 2023. Sun, the Stimson Center expert, said Xi will be seeking to use the meeting to burnish his image as a global statesman and head off China's economic woes. But whatever agreements Xi brokers with the US president it's unlikely to change his core mission: Chinese global dominance.

Persons: China's Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, —, Xi Jinping, SERGEI, Jonathan Ward, Vladimir Putin, Biden, Xi, Putin, GRIGORY SYSOYEV, Ward, Yun Sun, Jeremy Chan, SAUL LOEB, Xi's, it's Organizations: APEC, Service, Economic Cooperation, Getty Images, Atlas Group, Russia's, Forum, Stimson Center, Eurasia Group, Getty Locations: San Francisco, China, Ukraine, Asia, East, Russia, Iran, Getty Images China, Beijing, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Europe, Ethiopia, Argentina, Nusa Dua, Bali, Taiwan

☆ China’s northeast hit by unseasonable blizzard as heavy snow causes mass disruption
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

In Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province, the railway operator halted 51 passenger trains on Tuesday due to the snowstorm. Heavy snow falls in Xiangfang district of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on November 6, 2023. Harbin issued a red blizzard alert – the highest in China’s four-tier warning system – on Sunday and Monday. In the neighboring province of Jilin, more than 200 expressway entrances were closed on Monday due to heavy snowfall. China’s national weather forecaster issued an orange blizzard alert – the second highest level after red – on Saturday and renewed it on Monday for parts of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, Xie Jianfei Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, National Meteorological Center, CCTV, Xinhua Locations: China, Hong Kong, Heilongjiang, China’s, Harbin, Jiamusi, Xinhua, Xiangfang, Heilongjiang province, Qiqihar, Jilin, Inner Mongolia

Mei Xiang and Tian Tian arrived in 2000, about one year after Hsing-Hsing was euthanized due to kidney disease and eight years after Ling Ling’s passing from heart failure. The two new pandas stayed for a decade under the first formal pact, then remained under two consecutive five-year agreements. Mei Xiang gave birth in August 2020, at an age when scientists had thought she would no longer be able to have a baby. Zoos that host pandas outside of China usually agree to send cubs back before they turn 4, and to send adults back when they are elderly — Mei Xiang is 25 and Tian Tian 26. “I don’t want to have a panda pass away outside of China.”

Persons: Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, Hsing, Ling Ling’s, Xiao Qi Ji, ”, Melissa Songer, “ Locations: China, Washington

☆ Argentina used Chinese yuan for part of its payment to the IMF as US dollars remain scarce
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Argentina leaned on its $18 billion currency swap line with China to cover part of an IMF payment, sources told Reuters. This isn't the first time yuan was used to help meet IMF debt requirements. Argentina had 1.4 billion in SDR available last month, and used Chinese yuan to help close the gap, according to Reuters. Between June and July, $2.8 billion worth of yuan was used to help meet IMF obligations. And as Argentina taps Chinese yuan to repay the IMF, it's also using IMF money to repay China.

Persons: —, it's, Javier Milei, Sergio Massa Organizations: Reuters, Service, International Monetary Fund, IMF, People's Bank of, Development Bank of Latin Locations: Argentina, China, Buenos Aires, American, People's Bank of China, Qatar, Development Bank of Latin America, Argentine

☆ TikTok Pushes Back Against Claims It Fuels Antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Sapna Maheshwari | More About Sapna Maheshwari | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

TikTok pushed back on Thursday against growing claims in recent weeks that it had failed to to protect Jewish users and had pushed pro-Palestinian content in the United States. Many social networks have come under criticism for spreading misinformation and hate speech during the Israel-Hamas war. TikTok has the added scrutiny of being owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. While Beijing has pitched itself as a neutral broker in the dispute, a surge of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment is proliferating across the Chinese internet and state media. The company said it started offering such data to academic researchers and will include other groups in the future.

Persons: TikTok, Jeff Morris Jr, Israel hashtags, Israel, “, Marco Rubio, Rubio, Morris’s, ” TikTok, standwithisrael, Morris didn’t, Amy Schumer, Michael Rapaport, Debra Messing, Yaël, Eisenstat Organizations: Twitter, Jewish, Defamation, Defamation League Locations: United States, Israel, Beijing, Florida, China

☆ Morning Bid: Markets hold their nerve amid Mid East trouble
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Wayne Cole | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. Most talk is it will stay on hold this time, but will discuss laying the groundwork for an eventual shift. Any tweak would see Japanese yields rise and add to the pain being felt in the Treasury market, where 10-year yields nudged up to 4.87% on Monday with scant sign of any safe haven bid. Analysts at NatWest Markets expect $885 billion of marketable borrowing in Q4 and $700 billion in Q1. It is also notable that the borrowing kept climbing even though the economy surprised everyone with its strength.

Persons: Wayne Cole, It's, Eli Lilly, Luis de Guindos, Erik Thedéen, Muralikumar Organizations: Nikkei, Bank of Japan, Ichi, Insurance, Reuters, Treasury, NatWest Markets, Federal Reserve, Apple, Thomson Locations: Wayne, Gaza, China

☆ Chinese fighter jet got within 10 feet of US bomber over South China Sea, US military says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Natasha Bertrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of a US Air Force B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to the US military. Beijing cut off the communications after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year, infuriating Chinese leaders. China uses its military might to assert its claims of sovereignty in the South China Sea and beyond, including Taiwan. In 2022, the Chinese military increased its aggressive actions towards the independent island territory, including ballistic missile overflights, military aircraft flying into Taiwan’s aerial identification zone and major exercises near Taiwan. Though Xi has said he is seeking the peaceful unification of Taiwan with China, he has not renounced the use of military force to achieve his goal.

Persons: “, Joe Biden, Wang Yi, Wang, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Biden, Xi Jinping, Ely Ratner, ” Ratner, Nancy Pelosi, “ I’ve, ”, Adm, John Aquilin, Xi Organizations: CNN, US Air Force, Pacific Command, ”, Foreign, APEC, US, East, South China, National Defense Strategy, America Locations: South, US, San Francisco, Beijing, Taiwan, China

☆ China’s graphite curbs send green warning shot
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Lisa Jucca | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Global demand for graphite, seen at 770,000 tonnes this year, is expected to treble by 2033, according to estimates by Fastmarkets graphite analyst Georgi Georgiev. China currently accounts for 64% of the global production of natural graphite and more than half of the artificial equivalent. More importantly, the People’s Republic refines more than 90% of the graphite into high-purity material used in EV batteries. This echoes the approach China used earlier this year to restrict exports of gallium and germanium, two metals used in chips and fibre optic cables, triggering a fall in international shipments. Mining graphite in Europe, which wants to lead in EV adoption, is simply more expensive, says Aiden Lavelle, CEO of miner European Green Metals.

Persons: Georgi Georgiev, Aiden Lavelle, Carmakers, Una Galani, Streisand Neto Organizations: Reuters, People’s, EV, Shanghai Putailai, Energy Technology, Metals, Volkswagen, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, China, Republic, Shanghai, Finland, Sweden, Beijing, Western, Europe, U.S

☆ Pentagon warns about China’s growing long-range missile arsenal in major report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The 2023 China Military Power report, released annually by the Defense Department, said that Beijing has also completed the construction of three new fields of long-range ballistic missiles silos as it builds out its options for delivering a nuclear warhead from different platforms. China uses its military might to assert its claims of sovereignty in the South China Sea and beyond, including Taiwan. In 2022, the Chinese military increased its aggressive actions towards the independent island territory, including ballistic missile overflights, military aircraft flying into Taiwan’s aerial identification zone and major exercises near Taiwan. The growing aggression isn’t only pointed at Taiwan or China’s neighbors. Chinese military pilots have ramped up their “coercive and risky” behavior against US aircraft flying over the East and South China in the last two years.

Persons: ”, Xi Jinping, ” Ely Ratner, “, Aquilino Organizations: CNN, Pentagon, Defense Department, National Defense Strategy, America, East, Defense, Pacific Security Affairs, PLA, PLA’s Joint Staff Department Locations: China, United States, Beijing, South, Taiwan, South China, Fiji

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends EU-China High-Level Strategic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing, China, on October 13, 2023. "Cooperation is very much important," Borrell told a press conference ending a three-day visit that had twice been postponed. During talks in Beijing last month, China's economy tsar, He Lifeng, asked EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to "exercise restraint in the use of trade remedy measures". The EU plans to open an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese steelmakers this month, the Financial Times has reported. The EU and China plan a summit by the end of the year, with Borrell's visit and those of a number of other top EU officials in recent months having paved the way.

Persons: Josep Borrell, Pedro Pardo, Borrell, Enrique Mora, Wang Yi, Lifeng, Valdis Dombrovskis, Laurie Chen, Joe Cash, William Mallard Organizations: EU, Representative, Foreign Affairs, House, REUTERS Acquire, EV, Financial Times, Thomson Locations: EU, China, Beijing, BEIJING, Brussels, Europe, United States, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Russia

☆ U.S. leans on China to use influence with Iran to cool Middle East tensions
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday the congressional delegation to China asked Beijing to use its influence with Iran to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from spreading. "A bunch of us made the request that China use its influence on Iran to not allow a conflagration to spread," Schumer told reporters in a briefing. "They have influence with Iran in many different ways," he said. "And we asked them to do everything they could to not have Iran spread this conflagration through themselves and through Hezbollah." "We oppose moves that escalate the conflict and destabilize the region and hope fighting will stop and peace will return soon," Mao said.

Persons: Chuck Schumer, Wang Wentao, Schumer, Xi Jinping, We're, Mao Ning, Mao Organizations: Chinese Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, Republican, Democratic Locations: Beijing, BEIJING — U.S, China, Iran, Israel, U.S

RAW Chief Ravi Sinha, the only serving official publicly affiliated with the agency, did not return messages seeking comment. All six officials denied that RAW engages in targeted killings, noting that the agency has no mandate for such operations. Fallout from the Vancouver incident has also raised concerns that RAW will come under greater global monitoring, Indian intelligence officials and analysts said. "The current developments have undoubtedly increased global curiosity about RAW," said Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya, an expert on Indian intelligence at Britain's Hull University. "Our footprint is growing in parts of the world which were not important earlier," a recently retired senior RAW official said, without providing specifics.

Persons: Blair Gable, Justin Trudeau's, Hardeep Singh, RAW's, Narendra Modi, Ravi Sinha, Sinha, Ajit Doval, Paramesha, Trudeau, David Headley, Headley, Adrian Levy, Levy, Modi, Krishn Kaushik, Sanjeev Miglani, Katerina Ang Organizations: High Commission of, REUTERS, Canadian, Reuters, RAW, National, Britain's Hull University, Ottawa, Washington Post, MUMBAI RAW, Indian Foreign Ministry, Indian, Islamabad, American Embassy, Intelligence Bureau, Hull, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, India deniability, South, CIA, U.S . Council, Foreign Relations, PRS, Thomson Locations: High Commission of India, Ottawa , Ontario, Canada, DELHI, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vancouver, India, Ottawa, Mumbai, West, Delhi, China, Washington, U.S, MUMBAI, Islamabad, North America, Chicago, United States, London, Britain, Australia, South Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, New Delhi

☆ Japan Display ends partnership talks with China's HKC
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Japan Display (6740.T) said on Friday it has ended talks with China's HKC Corp over co-operation on next-generation display technology and will limit collaboration to high-end automotive displays. The talks, launched in April, were aimed at building display-making plants in China using Japan Display's eLEAP OLED technology with mass production to start in 2025. The companies could not agree on the licensing fee HKC was to pay for Japan Display's technology, while China's economic slowdown and HKC's recent withdrawal of its initial public offering to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange likely affected the talks, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier. Separately, Japan Display said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the local government in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui to build panels there and is targeting a final agreement by year-end. Reporting by Kantaro Komiya and Sam Nussey; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim and Jacqueline WongOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: China's, Kantaro Komiya, Sam Nussey, Chang, Ran Kim, Jacqueline Wong Organizations: China's HKC Corp, Japan, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Nikkei, Thomson Locations: TOKYO, Japan, China, Anhui

CNN —A floating barrier installed by China to prevent Filipino boats from fishing in a disputed area of the South China Sea has been removed, Philippine authorities said Monday, in the latest flashpoint between Manila and Beijing over their competing maritime claims. The video is a vivid illustration of a fraught power struggle that has been playing out for years in the South China Sea as Manila tries to push back against increasingly assertive claims to the disputed strategic waterway by Beijing. “The barrier posed a hazard to navigation, a clear violation of international law,” the Philippine Coast Guard said in a statement Monday, adding that it also infringed on Philippine sovereignty. Beijing claims “indisputable sovereignty” over almost all of the 1.3 million square miles of the South China Sea, as well as most of the islands and sandbars within it, including many features that are hundreds of miles away from China’s mainland. In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a landmark maritime dispute, which concluded that China has no legal basis to claim historic rights to the bulk of the South China Sea.

Persons: Wang Wenbin, ” Organizations: CNN, South China, Philippine Coast Guard, Coast Guard Locations: China, South, Manila, Beijing, Bajo de Masinloc, Scarborough, Philippine, Luzon, South China, Huangyan, Philippines, China’s, The Hague, United States, Palawan

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