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by Melinda Liu at nbcnews.com Dec. 16, 2018 – BEIJING — For many Americans, Jack Ma seemed just the sort of Chinese capitalist the U.S. could do business with. In 2014, the initial public offering of Ma’s e-commerce firm Alibaba raised $21 billion. At the time, it was the biggest IPO in American history. Then […]
by Conor Coughlin at substack.com “Trying to predict the future is humbling, but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, its fodder for good conversation” was the subtitle of a Seattle Magazine article from 2016. The specific fodder for a good conversation was presented in “Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part […]
by Julio Rivera at californiaglobe.com In America, the Washington D.C. uniparty types like to make you think that they are all for reining in big corporations in favor of the “little guy.” But in practice, it seems that across many industries, the practice of squeezing out competition via government subsidy or legislative or bureaucratic intervention […]
by Matt Lamb at lifesitenews.com NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — Hackers targeted defense contractors, American political leaders, and U.S. companies with malware as part of a surveillance operation for the Chinese Communist Party, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges. The DOJ released details on the indictment of seven Chinese individuals who have been charged with “conspiracy […]
via currypilot.com A Chinese billionaire and a California timber family have become among the largest private landowners in the U.S. following major purchases of Oregon forests. Those findings come from The Land Report, a magazine that details annually the top 100 private landowners in the U.S. Its most recent report was published Jan. 9. The […]
via scmp.com For the centenary of the death of Karl Marx in 1983, China issued a special set of commemorative stamps. In 2018, for the 200th anniversary of the birth of the German thinker and founder of communism, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a memorial meeting, one of a host of state-led events held to […]
by JOHN HAYWARD at breitbart.com Chinese censors on Wednesday quickly deleted an article in a maternity-related news service that leaked plummeting birth rate data for 2023, revealing China’s population crisis is even worse than the regime has previously admitted. The article in question appeared on the Tieba social media platform, which is run by online […]
by William Zheng at scmp.com The Chinese Communist Party has widened its scope of violations and punishments, less than two weeks before the disciplinary commission holds its third plenary session, from January 8-10. The new regulation from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) makes clear that party members face expulsion if they are found to be […]