Tag: Beijing

Amid Beijing’s Pacific Moves, Upgrade of Far North Marine Precinct ‘Incredibly Important’: Aussie PM

The marine precinct home to Australia’s HMAS Cairns naval base in Far North Queensland will receive $24 million worth of critical upgrades as part of a coalition Liberal-National Party election pledge. In light of Beijing signing a security pact with the Solomon Islands, a small Pacific island nation just 1,700 kilometres from HMAS Cairns, Australian Prime…


The Hill Publishes Huawei-Sponsored Content; Beijing to Lockdown?

Huawei is mad that it can’t do business in the United States anymore. So what did it do? It vented on Twitter after Elon Musk bought the social media company and spent money advertising in The Hill. We break down how Huawei’s latest move to win over sympathy won’t work. And I speak with David…


Lockdown Fears Loom As Beijing Starts Testing Nearly All of Its 21 Million Residents

China’s capital city, Beijing, on April 26 started testing most of its 21 million residents, stoking fears that a citywide lockdown was imminent. On Tuesday, lines formed up from the city’s university district of Haidian to Dongcheng, which houses the country’s top officials, with residents waiting for throat swabs. After recording a handful of cases,…


Residents in Beijing Hoard Food, Fear Prolonged Lockdown Amid Mass Testing

Authorities have commenced mass testing affecting at least half of the residents in China’s capital city of Beijing, a possible signal to accelerate its zero-COVID containment pace and lockdown like Shanghai. Local residents are scrambling to hoard food and supplies in fear of starving during the impending lockdown. The epidemic situation in Beijing is “serious…


Bearing Witness to a Historic Appeal, Campaign of Terror in Communist China

NEW YORK—Fears of police harassment and arrests have plagued 23-year-old Zhang Minghui ever since she turned one, the year Chinese police officers beat her father with wooden planks until his feet swelled up and turned a dark purple color, and burned his arm with a lighter. When she was not yet two years old, police…


Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer; FCC’s Carr Criticizes Apple Over Censorship | NTD Business

Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter is gaining steam. After all the drama, it looks like Musk will win. But how does he want to change Twitter? An FCC commissioner is raising concerns about Apple censoring content in China—including a U.S.-funded news app. Pictures of empty shelves in Beijing emerge as panic-buying breaks out. Residents there are worried…


Lockdown Fears Spark Panic Buying in China’s Capital As Districts Kick Off Mass Testing

A mass COVID-19 testing order in Beijing’s largest district has prompted residents to stock up on food, fearing that they might soon be confined to their homes like millions in Shanghai, which is approaching its fifth week of lockdown. Chaoyang will expand the scale of COVID-19 testing to all people working and living in the…


Beijing’s Indo-Pacific Arc of Power Crystallizes

Commentary Beijing now has in place a basic architecture of power projection targets throughout Southeast Asia, from Burma in the West to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, as well as Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. They each represent decades of work for the Chinese Communist Party of China (CCP) and are now…


COVID-19 Chain Infections Broke out in Beijing, Infection Number Remains High in Shanghai

As the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai still runs rampant, causing deaths, the virus has started spreading in Beijing through multiple transmission chains. On April 22, it was stated in a meeting of the leading group for pandemic control held in Beijing that there have been sudden outbreaks in the city recently, involving multiple transmission chains…


China’s Top Oil Gaint Plans to Exit Western Markets in Fear of Sanctions, Returning to Domestic IPOs

China is selling its oil fields in the United States, Canada, and Britain due to fear of Western sanctions, according to a recent Reuters report. Experts say Beijing’s over-reliance on U.S. markets and technologies could be fatal in the case of being sanctioned or losing its overseas assets. China’s top offshore oil and gas producer,…