Rick Waters is managing director of Eurasia Group’s China practice. He spent nearly three decades with the US Department of State where he oversaw the creation of the Office of China Coordination and was deputy assistant secretary of state for China and Taiwan. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the…
Tesla is victorious in almost every court case thanks to a justice system that acts as the long arm of the Chinese Communist Party. “The odds are stacked against you,” the founder of Shanghai-based advisory firm Automobility told the AP. Tesla has adopted an unusual strategy to defend its brand from critics in China. According…
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jan 23, 2025 / 08:45 am The Vatican announced Thursday that Pope Francis had approved the transfer of Bishop Joseph Cai Bingrui from the Diocese of Xiamen to the Diocese of Fuzhou, both in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian. The 59-year-old Cai took possession of the diocese on Jan….
The clock is ticking for TikTok and its 170 million American users – CBS News Watch CBS News TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on Sunday and called on the Biden administration for clarification on the new law. A White House spokesperson Saturday called TikTok’s statement a “stunt.” Ali Bauman has the…
What Supreme Court ruling means for TikTok users – CBS News Watch CBS News Over 100 million TikTok users in the U.S. could be in for a rude awakening this weekend if the app shutters due to a law passed last year. As Kelly O’Grady explains, the ban will affect casual users in addition to…
Why these foreign leaders’ invites to Trump inauguration are raising eyebrows – CBS News Watch CBS News A high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official is set to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration as a special representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping — a highly unusual charm offensive at a tense moment. And it’s not the only…
China and Vietnam should work on developing stable industrial supply chains between the two countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in a phone call with the head of the Vietnamese Communist Party. In addition, Xi, who is also general secretary of China’s Communist Party, pledged in the call with To Lam to “promote…
New York — Temulun Togchug, 17, born to a Mongolian couple who fled to the United States, recently stood before the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China in Washington to testify about the worsening human rights situation in Southern Mongolia. With conviction, Temulun shared with U.S. lawmakers the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to erase…
Elon Musk Accused Of Bullying Republicans To Scrap US-China Investment Safeguards To Protect Tesla’s Interests Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has been accused by Rosa DeLauro of pressuring Republicans to abandon key U.S.-China investment restrictions to safeguard the EV giant’s business interests in China. What Happened: In a letter on Friday, DeLauro, the top…
The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said on Friday that Republicans in Congress were protecting Elon Musk’s Chinese investments by scrapping provisions restricting US investments. Representative Rosa DeLauro said in a letter that Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla, may have upended the government funding process to remove a provision…