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Check out all the big-shot tech execs who met the Chinese president in Seattle
Some of the most powerful tech leaders got together in Seattle to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on his visit to the US Wednesday.And based on the group photo tweeted out by Seattle Times reporter...
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China is getting ready to rebound
China’s economy has been slowing since 2007 and is expected to slow further. But we believe that it’s now possible to identify the beginning of trends that, in time, could ease China’s decline and help...
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Microsoft threw Bing and MSN under the bus to promote Windows 10 in China...
Six months ago, we reported on a power struggle within Microsoft between the team that makes Windows and the team that oversees Bing and other online services.At the time, we reported that Terry...
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Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is launching a laptop to compete with Apple's...
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is taking yet another leaf out of Apple's book — by launching a laptop.After previous rumours suggested as much, Taipei Times reports that the chairman of Taiwan...
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It’s time to get tough on China and President Xi
For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the principal achievement of a summit meeting with President Obama may be the 21-gun salute he is due to receive on the White House lawn Friday.A greeting with full...
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There's an insecurity underpinning Xi Jinping's repression
Jerome A. Cohen is professor and co-director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University School of Law and adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.This week's visit...
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China is launching a 'trump card' nuclear submarine that could target the US
China is preparing to launch a new ballistic missile submarine that could potentially target any part of the United States by the end of 2015, Anthony Capaccio and David Tweed report for Bloomberg...
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Apple just released a list of the most popular apps affected by the App Store...
Apple on Thursday released a list of the 25 most popular apps that were infected with malware in the recent hack of its App Store. The hack was the result of developers in China using a tainted version...
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The US just put a Chinese billionaire in jail over a 20-year-old scandal
A controversial Macau businessman with top-level connections to both Beijing and Washington has been accused by the United States authorities of engaging in a two-year scheme to move more than US $4.5...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chinese is so good, he didn't speak a word of...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chinese seems to be getting better by the day.In fact, it's getting so good, he spoke entirely in Chinese during his meeting with President Xi Jinping of China on...
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CHANOS: If you want to know the real China, look here
The consensus on Wall Street is that looking at China's gross domestic product to understand its growth rate doesn't work.That's because investors have noticed that no matter what happens, the...
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Here are all of the Kremlin's military ventures since 1945
From Hungary to Angola to Korea, the Kremlin is no stranger to military interventions abroad. How do Moscow's current military deployments in Syria and Ukraine compare to past...
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H&M is expanding in a risky market
Fast fashion behemoth H&M is expanding swiftly and rapidly into China, according to The Wall Street Journal. H&M will reportedly open up 240 stores across the board (primarily in China and the...
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China will announce a drastic environmental plan that some US lawmakers have...
China's president Xi Jinping will announce an ambitious plan to reign in harmful greenhouse gas emissions, The New York Times reports.The plan — which is meant to encourage the use of clean energy...
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One of Apple's suppliers is being accused of exploiting factory workers
Hong Kong (AFP) - A labour rights group marked the launch of Apple's latest iPhone Friday with a report accusing one of the smartphone giant's Chinese suppliers of exploiting factory workers.Hong...
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Everything we know about the Chinese president's childhood is terrifying
On Thursday evening, President Obama had dinner with one of the most powerful, mysterious men in the world: Chinese President Xi Jinping.Xi, who took power in 2013, is known for being an incredibly...
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Here's a great look at China's major new runway in the South China Sea
Satellite imagery shows that China has finished construction of a major runway on a dredged reef in the South China Sea, IHS Jane's Defense Weekly reports. The images show that China has recently...
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The South China Sea is way more important than anyone realizes
Robert Kaplan, one of the foremost experts on China, stated “The South China Sea will be the 21st Century’s defining battleground.”Unlike the Persian Gulf, which has widespread recognition due to its...
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Here are all the tech execs going to dinner with the Chinese president at the...
Chinese president Xi Jinping is heading to the White House for a state dinner tonight, and the guest list is packed with tech execs.Here's who's on the list, according to the Washington Post:Tim Cook,...
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Activists say the Chinese government is targeting them with cyberattacks
"I don't have any secrets," Rose Tang says, defiantly.Tang survived the Tiananmen Square massacre as a 20-year-old college student, and she continues to be outspoken against the Chinese government.But...
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