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Yahoo pulls out of China citing ‘challenging’ environment, soon after new data protection law came into effect
Yahoo’s departure from coincides with the implementation of a new data privacy law that grants sweeping authority to officials to access personal information collected by tech firms.
China’s real Squid Game: Beijing operates forced organ harvesting from political prisoners and dissidents, says UN report
Uyghurs, Muslims, Tibetans, Christians and other minorities held in detention centre are conscripted by China in their forced organ harvesting program
China’s debt-trap diplomacy? BRI participant countries owe over 385 billion USD to China in hidden debt, study reveals
China has been using "debt-trap diplomacy" to wield outsize influence on borrowing countries and coerce them into coughing up physical and illegal assets.
‘China can’t be a global player like the US if it fails to engage India: Here is what Former UK Treasury Minister Jim...
Jim O'Neill said India will become the third largest economy in the world in the next two decades also explaining why China needs to engage India
German Ambassador to China dies within two weeks of joining office in Beijing
Jan Hecker had arrived in China on 1st August to take charge of office. He had joined office on 24th August.
China restricts online gaming for children to three hours a week
Children under 18 in China will be restricted to one hour of gaming from 8pm to 9pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Hungary: Chinese university faces opposition, Budapest mayor announces renaming of streets after Dalai Lama and Uyghur
The Hungarian government has taken a loan worth $1.5 billion from a Chinese bank for the project.
New report: Multiple Wuhan lab researchers fell ill in November 2019, weeks before China ‘reported’ the first Covid case
It is interesting to note that the Trump administration in January had said that the researchers at Wuhan lab had become sick in autumn 2019.
Lithuania labels China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims a ‘genocide’ and demands UN probe, quits China’s “17+1” group
Apart from condemning China for abuse of Uyghur Muslims, Lithuania also demanded actions on Tibet and Hong Kong
China threatens Bangladesh, says their bilateral ties will be severely damaged if it joined the Indo-Pacific Quad
Chinese ambassador in Dhaka Li Jiming said Bangladesh's relations with China will be "substantially damaged" if it joins the 4-nation Quad.
