Joe Biden made his first call as president with Xi Jinping on Wednesday, pressuring the Chinese leader on trade and Beijing’s crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong, as well as other …
Read More »Researchers discover new malware from Chinese hacking group
Researchers have discovered new “highly malleable and highly sophisticated” malware from a Chinese state-backed group of hackers, according to the threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Network Unit 42. Because it is …
Read More »Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P Live Updates for February 11, 2021
Photographer: Noriko Hayashi / Bloomberg Photographer: Noriko Hayashi / Bloomberg US equity futures were flat on Thursday as investors weighed the implications of weaker-than-expected US inflation data for so-called reflation trading betting …
Read More »Biden and Xi plan the first call as early as Wednesday night in the US.
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden speak during the US-China Business Roundtable in 2012. Photographer: Andrew Harrer Photographer: Andrew Harrer President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing to speak within …
Read More »Biden Retracts TikTok Ban in Review of Trump’s Movements in China
The Biden administration is backtracking on former President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban the popular video app TikTok, asking a judge to postpone a legal dispute over the proposed ban while the …
Read More »Mars: water vapors rising from the red planet suggest it “ may have been habitable ”
Was Mars once the home of ALIENS? Water vapors rising from the red planet suggest it ‘may have been habitable’, study reveals Scientists have detected that water vapor rises through the atmosphere …
Read More »Chinese spacecraft enters orbit of Mars and joins Arab spacecraft
BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese spacecraft entered orbit around Mars on Wednesday on an expedition to land a rover on the surface and search for signs of ancient life, authorities announced in …
Read More »New Zealand seeks clarification after China blocked some seafood
Photographer: Brendon O’Hagan / Bloomberg Photographer: Brendon O’Hagan / Bloomberg New Zealand said it is urgently seeking clarification from the Chinese authorities after Beijing suspended imports from two of its seafood factories. …
Read More »Coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from China’s lab
WUHAN, China (AP) – The coronavirus likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, saying …
Read More »Up to a million people fleeing Hong Kong could perfectly adapt to China
Photo Illustration: 731 Albert Ho crawls through the dining room of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club in a suit jacket and black scarf and collapses in his seat. The 69-year-old lawyer, …
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