The giant Baihetan hydropower plant began generating electricity for the first time on Monday for a test run. The dam is located downstream of the Jinsha River, an upper section of the Yangtze River, on the border of southwest China’s Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. According to state media, the power plant has 16 generating units […]
The US Central Intelligence Agency has announced the founding of a new China Center. The China Mission Center “will further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese government,” CIA Director William Burns said in a statement, Reuters reported.These operations centers are stand-alone […]
The holidays of the Golden Week offer time for a wide variety of activities: While a bride and groom pose for photos in Beijing, the group of tourists next to them is busy with their own holiday snapshots on their smartphones. Today, however, the “Golden Week” comes to an end – now it’s back to […]
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen suggested during her testimony that China was using Facebook to monitor Uighurs abroad. The former product manager referred to spying by the People’s Republic during the hearing to the US Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, CNN reported. When asked by a senator whether Facebook was being used by “authoritarian or terrorist-based […]
Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei has opened an innovation center in Finland. At the Digital Finance and Security Innovation Lab (Fin²Sec) in Helsinki, innovations are to be developed in cooperation with local partners, according to media reports. The focus is on the digitalization of banking, finance, and payment services in Europe, as reported by tech […]
Repair after accident: The container ship Ever Given is being repaired at a shipyard in Qingdao in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. The freighter, damaged mainly at the bow, will remain at the shipyard for more than 20 days, according to media reports. The Ever Given, owned by a Japanese company and operated by […]
The Taliban announced the removal of “Uyghur fighters” from an area near the Afghan border to China. This was reported by an unnamed source to the US-funded radio station RFE/RL. The action suggests increasing coordination between Beijing and those in power in Afghanistan, analysts told the radio station. According to the report, members of the […]
At an informal dinner of the EU heads of state and government in the Slovenian castle of Brdo, the relationship with China was also on the agenda, albeit a minor topic at the end. Attention is now being drawn to a detail in EU Council President Charles Michel’s communiqué on the meeting. China is considered […]
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are planning a virtual meeting. It is supposed to take place before the end of the year, AFP reported citing the White House on Wednesday. The announcement suggested that there will be no actual face-to-face meeting between Biden and Xi at the G20 summit in […]