China has accused the UK of protecting fugitives after the British foreign secretary criticised Hong Kong’s decision to offer HK$1m bounties for the arrest of eight democracy activists based overseas, as the territory’s leader said the group would be “pursued for life”. In a statement late on Monday, China’s embassy in London said: “British politicians have openly offered protection for fugitives. This is crude interference in Hong Kong’s rule of law and China’s internal affairs.” The embassy called on British politicians to “stop using these anti-China Hong Kong disruptors to…
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Myanmar Military Court Sentences Ex-Publisher to Five Years for Sedition
The former publisher of independent news outlet The Irrawaddy has been sentenced to five years in prison for sedition, marking the latest in a barrage of attacks on the press in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. Thaung Win was sentenced by the military-controlled Western Yangon District Court on June 28 under Article 124-A of the penal code, which covers sedition, and fined him 100,000 kyats, or about $47, according to The Irrawaddy. He was arrested nine months earlier at his home in the city of Yangon in late September.…
Fukushima: China calls for suspension of Japanese plan to release radioactive water into sea
China has called for the suspension of a Japanese plan to begin releasing radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, ahead of a UN report that is expected to give its approval to the scheme. Beijing denounced the plan as “extremely irresponsible” when it was announced in 2021 and reiterated its opposition on Tuesday, as International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief, Rafael Grossi, begins a four-day visit in which he is set to deliver the results of the body’s safety review. Through its embassy in Japan,…
Why Is Hollywood Making More Movies About Chinese Americans?
In recent years, TV shows and movies featuring Asians, including Chinese Americans, have been on the rise, with many of them aimed at younger audiences. Students at a Taiwanese School summer camp in Washington share their thoughts on this trend. Elizabeth Lee and Graham Kanwit report. Voice of America
Prosecutions filed against Chinese chemical manufacturers
The United States is muscling up to turn around what might be described as the Opium Wars Part II, even if it was Britain, not the U.S., that was perpetrator of the first two in the 19th century. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Anne Milgram called for further cooperation from China and Mexico to battle the U.S.’s synthetic opioid crisis. Milgram said that even though the D.E.A. was “ready to work with anyone who will work with us,” China has not…
China, US should ‘try every tool’ to ease lingering concerns over lack of trust, experts say
“This demonstrates that the US and China have become mutually suspicious, increasingly hostile states,” he said. “Each government thinks it is protecting the status quo and its legitimate rights. But since the other government’s behaviour is what is disrupted, each side perceives its own actions as legitimate and defensive.” Russel said that without dialogue, trust and transparency, relations between Washington and Beijing were trapped in a downward spiral and questions would be raised over the other’s strategic intentions, prompting deep concern from neighbouring countries. Advertisement “A crisis could very well…
What equity markets got wrong about China
Receive free Equities updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Equities news every morning. As Chinese stocks rocketed higher in January after stringent Covid restrictions were lifted, strategists at Goldman Sachs made the case that a 46 per cent rise in a matter of weeks was only the beginning. “China looks well positioned across the growth, policy and inflation cycles in a global context in 2023,” they argued, noting shares could jump another 15 or even 20 per cent if the country managed to…
China stock falls leave investors pining for support from Beijing
Receive free Equities updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Equities news every morning. As Chinese stocks rocketed higher in January after stringent Covid restrictions were lifted, strategists at Goldman Sachs made the case that a 46 per cent rise in a matter of weeks was only the beginning. “China looks well positioned across the growth, policy and inflation cycles in a global context in 2023,” they argued, noting shares could jump another 15 or even 20 per cent if the country managed to…
Backlash over labour reforms tests India’s manufacturing ambitions
Receive free Indian business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian business & finance news every morning. Two of India’s most business-friendly southern states, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, recently amended laws to allow an increase the length of working shifts from eight to 12 hours in a reform urged by investors, including Apple and its contract manufacturer Foxconn. Karnataka, where the Taiwanese supplier plans to build a major plant in Bengaluru, also amended legislation in February to allow for two-shift production,…
Banned by Beijing, Badiucao opens London show
In the brick-walled crypt of a church in central London hangs a painting of a many-armed, black-clad figure wearing an elastomeric mask and a yellow construction hat, evoking a figure that was once a familiar sight during the 2019 protest movement in Hong Kong. One of its many pairs of hands – protesters were referred to in Cantonese at the time as the “hands and feet” of the movement – is clasped in apparent prayer, with other pairs clutching water bottles and a retractable baton for fending off charging cops.…