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Hundreds of protesters were arrested Wednesday in Hong Kong after riot police gathered around the city’s legislature overnight and adopted a zero tolerance approach. About 300 people across the city were taken into police custody for “unauthorized assembly” and possession of “offensive weapons” and “tools for illegal use” as they demonstrated against new national security laws …
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Ralph Lauren said on Wednesday a surge in online shopping was helping it get back on track in China and putting it on course for a recovery from the financial damage wrought by the COVID-19 lockdowns in other markets as well. Online sales in China, a crucial growth market for luxury goods companies, jumped 76 …
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Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) sent a letter to Google on Tuesday asking that the tech giant explain why YouTube comments mentioning the Chinese Communist Party’s internet propaganda division Wumao (五毛) have been automatically deleted. The revelation, which was mentioned Monday by Palmer Luckey, an American entrepreneur who founded Oculus VR, drew a number of …
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China raised the specter of escalated tensions with the U.S. over the weekend amid friction over the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the U.S. is pushing the relationship between the world’s two largest economies “to the brink of a new Cold War.” “It has come to our attention that some political forces in the U.S. are …
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Stanley Ho, the flashy casino tycoon who helped turn Macau into the world’s biggest gambling hub, has died, his family confirmed Tuesday. He was 98. The Hong Kong native known as the “King of Gambling” ushered in a new era of gaming in China by building what was once a sleepy Portuguese colony into a …
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China urged US officials Monday to undo new sanctions against nearly three dozen companies amid growing tensions between the two nations. The demand came three days after the US Department of Commerce blacklisted more than 30 Chinese firms and government enterprises with alleged links to China’s military activities and human-rights abuses. Washington “violated the basic …
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The Department of Education has discovered at least $6 billion in unreported donations to American universities from adversarial foreign nations, Townhall reported on Friday. The DoE revealed its updates in a May 19 letter to Congress and a subsequent briefing to several ranking House Republicans who are conducting an investigation into the foreign funding of U.S. …
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China on Friday repeated its pledge to implement its landmark trade deal with the US amid growing tensions between the two countries. “China will continue to boost economic and trade cooperation with other countries to deliver mutual benefits,” premier Li Keqiang said at the annual meeting of China’s parliament in Beijing, according to Bloomberg News. …
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Senators from both parties will introduce legislation to sanction Chinese officials and entities over a suite of new national-security laws that threaten Hong Kong’s independence from mainland China. Senators Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), who co-sponsored the legislation, told the Wall Street Journal they had been drafting a more general …
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US stock indexes dropped on Friday as Sino-US tensions weighed on markets struggling to gauge the pace of economic recovery from the coronavirus. President Donald Trump’s statement on China’s plan for a national security law in Hong Kong on Thursday raised concerns over Washington and Beijing possibly reneging on their Phase-1 trade deal. Fears of …
Hundreds of protesters were arrested Wednesday in Hong Kong after riot police gathered around the city’s legislature overnight and adopted a zero tolerance approach. About 300 people across the city were taken into police custody for “unauthorized assembly” and possession of “offensive weapons” and “tools for illegal use” as they demonstrated against new national security laws …
