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☆ Taiwan steeling itself for Chinese drills over VP's US visit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Yimou Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The United States has described the stopovers as routine and no reason for China to take "provocative" action. Neither Taiwan nor the United States have given details of Lai's schedule on his stopovers. That includes the prospect of a visit to the United States by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, which could pave the way for a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Taiwan believes the scale of the exercises could be smaller than those in April, the Taiwanese official said. Chinese state television this month ran an eight-part series on the People's Liberation Army, some of which focused on Taiwan.

Persons: William Lai's stopovers, Lai, Tsai Ing, Kevin McCarthy, Biden, Wang Yi, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, China, Jeff Liu, Yimou Lee, Ben Blanchard, Liz Lee, Michael Martina, Robert Birsel Organizations: United, House, Taiwan Affairs Office, People's Liberation Army, China's Eastern Theatre Command, Reuters, Chinese Foreign, American Institute, The U.S . State Department, Thomson Locations: TAIPEI, China, Taiwan, United States, U.S, Beijing, Los Angeles, Taiwan Strait, New York, Paraguay, San Francisco, stoke, Virginia, The, Taipei, Washington

Chinese naval ships and air force planes have been edging closer to Taiwan’s territorial seas and skies, probing the island’s vigilance and trying to wear down its military planes and ships. China’s increasing presence there signals its intent to dominate an expanse of sea that could be vital for the island’s defenses, including for securing potential aid from the United States in a conflict, experts say. Mr. Lai leaves on Saturday for Paraguay, and is scheduled to stop in the United States on his way there and back. Beijing regards such transits in the United States as an affront to its stance that Taiwan is not an independent state. Mr. Lai is also the presidential candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party, which supports asserting Taiwan’s separate status, a position that Beijing condemns as “separatism.”

Persons: Lai Ching, Lai, ” Organizations: Pacific, Democratic Progressive Party Locations: China, Taiwan, United States, Beijing, Paraguay

BEIJING/TAIPEI, July 17 (Reuters) - China reacted with anger on Monday to a planned visit next month to the United States by "separatist" Taiwan presidential frontrunner Vice President William Lai, as the government in Taipei said it saw no reason to overreact to mere transit stops. Such transits infuriate China, which views them as covert support by the United States for Taiwan's separateness from China and challenge to Beijing's territorial claims. "China firmly opposes any form of official exchanges between the United States and Taiwan, resolutely opposes sneaky visits by Taiwan independence separatists in any name or for any reason, and resolutely opposes any form of connivance by the United States to support Taiwan independence separatists," she said. Speaking to reporters, Taiwan Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui declined to give details on Lai's U.S. transits, saying details would come later. Pena visited Taiwan last week and met both Lai and Tsai, who cannot run for office again after serving two terms.

Persons: William Lai, Lai, Santiago Pena, Tsai Ing, Tsai, Kevin McCarthy, Mao Ning, Pena, Alexander Yui, Yui, Liz Lee, Ben Blanchard, Kim Coghill, Lincoln, Michael Perry Organizations: Central America, Foreign Ministry, Taiwan, Foreign, U.S, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, TAIPEI, China, United States, Taiwan, Taipei, U.S, Taiwan's, Los Angeles, Central, Beijing, Paraguay, Republic of China

☆ Paraguay 'would love' more China trade, Taiwan still better for development
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Ben Blanchard | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TAIPEI, July 15 (Reuters) - Paraguay "would love" to do more trade with China, but Taiwan offers the best bet for moving the largely agricultural economy up the value chain, the country's president-elect Santiago Pena said on Saturday on a visit to Taipei. Paraguay is the last South American country with formal relations with Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory. Honduras ended decades of ties in favour of Beijing this year, and only 13 countries now recognise Taiwan. "We have no constraints on doing trade with China. We would love to do more trade with the PRC," he said, referring to the People's Republic of China.

Persons: Santiago Pena, Pena, Tsai Ing, Wang Mei, Tsai, William Lai, Lai, Ben Blanchard, William Mallard Organizations: Thomson Locations: TAIPEI, Paraguay, China, Taiwan, Taipei, American, Honduras, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Brazil, United States

☆ Taiwan Faces a #MeToo Wave, Set Off by a Netflix Hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Amy Chang Chien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In some ways, the #MeToo movement points to a generational shift in attitudes brought about by the hard-fought advances won by women’s rights activists in decades past. Taiwan’s younger generation started learning about gender equality in elementary school, as part of curriculum changes enacted in 2004, and have since come of age. Taiwan’s younger generation has “a higher awareness of gender diversity and equality than the older generation,” said Wei-Ting Yen, an assistant professor of government at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. Women’s rights groups have called for Taiwan to extend the statute of limitations for sexual harassment complaints, currently at one year. A survey by Taiwan’s labor ministry last year showed that only a tiny percentage of female respondents who said they had encountered sexual harassment at work had filed complaints.

Persons: ”, Wei, Ting Yen, Lai Yu, Bartosz, Lai, gossiped, “, ” Ms Organizations: Franklin, Marshall College, Lawmakers, Facebook Locations: Pennsylvania, Taiwan, Polish

☆ The Art Behind Supply Chains Is Front and Center at a Museum Exhibit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Liz Young | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Newsletter Sign-up The Logistics Report Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. “What we wanted to do was to make the invisible visible, to look at the supply chain as a key part of how AI works,” Dr. Crawford said. “The best artists are all geometry and symmetrical work coupled with creativity, and that’s what supply chain is. Some of the artists on display in the MoMA gallery have gone on to create more work centered on supply chains. “When you start to do this research, you see everything differently and the precarity of the supply chain was made so clear to me,” she said.

☆ China Lets Hong Kong Leader Override Courts Over Jimmy Lai Lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Selina Cheng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jimmy Lai, in a file photo from February 2021, was a fierce critic of Beijing and its rule in Hong Kong. HONG KONG—China’s top legislative body said Hong Kong’s leader has the power to override the courts to determine whether overseas lawyers can participate in national security cases, a ruling that will likely prevent dissident publisher Jimmy Lai from hiring a U.K. barrister in his coming trial. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee sought Beijing’s intervention last month after the city’s top court overruled the government and said Mr. Lai could hire U.K. lawyer Timothy Owen to represent him in the national security trial.

☆ Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Gets Another Jail Term After Fraud Conviction
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Austin Ramzy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HONG KONG— Jimmy Lai , the staunchly pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon, was sentenced by a Hong Kong court Saturday to more than five years in prison for fraud over a sublease at the former headquarters of his media company. Mr. Lai, whose widely read publications were some of the most aggressive critics of China’s Communist Party and its locally appointed leaders, has been one of the chief targets of the crackdown that followed mass antigovernment protests that swept the city in 2019.

☆ Hong Kong to Seek Beijing’s Intervention After Top Court Rules in Favor of Jimmy Lai
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Selina Cheng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jimmy Lai, seen nearly two years ago, was a key figure in the protests against China’s tightening of its authority over Hong Kong. HONG KONG—Chief executive John Lee said he would seek Beijing’s intervention after Hong Kong’s top court ruled against the government in a national security case involving pro-democracy newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai . The Court of Final Appeal on Monday rejected a government bid to stop a senior lawyer from the U.K. representing Mr. Lai at his coming trial on collusion charges, backing decisions by lower courts.

☆ Regulator Warns Hong Kong Companies About Auditor Resignations
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong’s accounting regulator is sounding the alarm over a surge in auditor resignations a month before or after a company’s reporting period ends. So-called “late auditor resignations,” which increased to 107 during the nine months ended Aug. 31 from 71 in the same period a year earlier, can jeopardize audit quality, the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council said Thursday. Audit firm resignations, and changes in general, are rare in the U.S., where companies are not required to switch firms after a certain number of years. In March, Enterprise Development announced annual results for the period that ended in December audited by Hong Kong accounting firm BOFA CPA Ltd. “We are concerned that audit quality may be compromised by late auditor resignations because the incoming auditor will have limited time to plan and conduct a proper audit in order to meet the listed entity’s deadline to announce their audited results,” she added.

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court found media tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty of fraud on Tuesday, the latest in a myriad of cases against Lai and other pro-democracy activists that critics say officials are using to stamp out dissent in the Chinese territory. Lai, 74, the founder of defunct pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, is among the most prominent activists to be prosecuted in the wake of anti-government protests that swept Hong Kong for months in 2019. Lai and co-defendant Wong Wai-keung, a former senior executive at Next Digital who was also convicted, both pleaded not guilty. Critics of the national security law say it has greatly eroded civil liberties in Hong Kong, the preservation of which had been promised for 50 years when the former British colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997. An annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists found that the number of Hong Kong journalists it considers unjustly imprisoned for their work rose from zero to eight in 2021.

☆ Un fost funcţionar chinez, condamnat la moarte pentru că a primit mită de peste 276 de miliarde de dolari
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un fost funcţionar chinez a fost condamnat la moarte pentru că, în perioada 2012-2018, a primit mită în valoare de aproape 1 790 miliarde yuani, echivalentul a peste 276 de miliarde de dolari. Este vorba despre Lai Xiaomin, fostul președinte al uneia dintre cele mai mari companii chineze de gestionare a creditelor neperformante. Potrivit presei străine, bărbatul a fost condamnat de tribunalul din Tianjin şi pentru bigamie, iar anterior a fost exclus din Partidul Comunist Chinez. Lai a recunoscut anul trecut că a acceptat bani și a oferit detalii despre cum i se aduceau bancnote cu valiza la apartamentul său din Beijing. După arestarea sa, autoritățile au descoperit că acesta deținea mai multe proprietăți, ceasuri de lux, mașini, aur și o colecție de artă.

Persons: Lai Organizations: Partidul Comunist Chinez, Poliția Locations: Tianjin, Beijing

☆ Unul dintre cele mai mari scandaluri de corupție din China: Om de afaceri, condamnat la moarte pentru mită și bigamie
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

Lai a fost găsit vinovat că a primit mită în total 1,79 miliarde de yuani (225 milioane de euro) între 2008 și 2018. Toate bunurile sale personale vor fi confiscate, a mai decis instanța. Lai a fost arestat în 2018, iar de atunci autoritățile chineze spun că au descoperit că acesta deține numeroase proprietăți, ceasuri de lux, mașini, aur și colecții de artă. Autoritățile chineze adoptă o poziție din ce în ce mai dură în ceea ce privește corupția. Peste 1 milion de oficiali guvernamentali au fost pedepsiți în campania anticorupție lansată de președintele Xi Jiinping, potrivit presei de stat din China.

Persons: Lai, Xi Locations: Beijing, China

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