The US Senate confirmed long-time China critic David Perdue as the new US ambassador to China on Tuesday, a key role amid escalated bilateral tensions and a high-stakes tariff showdown between the world’s two largest economies. Perdue, 75, a former US senator for the state of Georgia and a veteran business executive, was confirmed in…
US President Donald Trump‘s sky-high tariffs imposed in China have started making an impact even though China puts up a brave front. Tariffs have struck when China’s economy is struggling to fully recover from the pandemic effects and is also grappling with sluggish domestic demand and a protracted property sector crisis.China’s leaders are downplaying the…
Hong Kong’s High Island Reservoir in Sai Kung was packed with hundreds of mainland Chinese tourists on Thursday as the five-day Labour Day “golden week” holiday began, with a heavy police presence deployed to maintain order. The reservoir’s East Dam, which has become a hotspot among mainland visitors after being promoted on various social media…
Open-source satellite imagery appears to show that China is expanding one of its naval bases that hosts an aircraft carrier, as it seeks to challenge United States naval dominance. Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Defense Ministry for comment by email. Why It Matters China has the largest navy in the world by hull…
Huawei and China Unicom have recently signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to team up on IP self-intelligent network technology. Both parties joined hands on April 28 in Songshan Lake at Dongguan. China Unicom serves as one of the major telcos in China. It offers a wide range of services, such as mobile, fixed line,…
Hong Kong police have arrested the driver of a double-decker bus that smashed into barriers on a highway on Thursday, with 21 passengers taken to hospital for treatment. Police said the Citybus vehicle was travelling along West Kowloon Highway towards the airport when it crashed at a slip road near Hoi Lai Estate in Cheung…
The United States continues to tighten restrictions on China’s access to Western technology, but the result has been to push Beijing to speed up a decoupling process that was already underway. Huawei now stands as a symbol of China’s response to the American challenge. The United States continues to tighten restrictions on China’s access to…
The Chinese military honed submarine-hunting skills as the United Kingdom assembled an aircraft carrier-led naval strike group, which included a submarine, for a Pacific deployment. Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Defense Ministry for further comment by email. Why It Matters The British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales commenced Operation Highmast on April…
It is no easy feat for a fitness studio to have survived years of Hong Kong’s high rents, the 2019 anti-government protests and a pandemic, but that is exactly what Heather Thomas’ Flex Studio has done. Flex Studio opened in 2005 in Stanley, in the south of Hong Kong Island. Today the Pilates studio has…
What do you get when you cross a giant global tech company with an overtly ‘America-first’ US administration? It looks like the answer is: Policy talk that mixes a strange blend of globalisation and patriotism. Case and point, Jensen Huang’s recent comments on President Trump’s potential upcoming changes to chip export rules. The Nvidia CEO…