Day: November 4, 2025

China’s top internet regulator has launched a sweeping campaign to clean up social media for the National Games. Advertisement The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Tuesday announced its “Clean and Bright: Online Environment Rectification” campaign, targeting issues such as doxxing – the leaking of personal information of athletes, coaches and referees. It is also aimed at fan-led smear campaigns and conflicts that the CAC said could “disrupt preparations or disrupt the smooth operation of the events”. Officials have been battling obsessive fan culture – in which fans mob and…

China’s energy industry has passed a new milestone, with the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta’s Beilun Power Station making it the largest thermal power station in the country by installed capacity. Advertisement The plant’s one gigawatt coal-fired Unit Nine has commenced operation after a 168-hour full-load trial, state-owned China Energy Investment Corporation announced on Monday. That raised the total installed capacity of the power station, in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, to 7.34GW – surpassing the 6.72GW of the Tuoketuo Power Station in Hohhot, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. While…

China has postponed the return of the Shenzhou-20 space mission following a suspected impact by small space debris, the China Manned Space Agency said on Wednesday. Advertisement The agency said it was carrying out an impact analysis and risk assessment. “To ensure the safety and health of the astronauts and the success of the mission, it has been decided that the Shenzhou-20 return mission, originally scheduled for November 5, will be postponed,” it said in an announcement. From left, Chinese astronauts Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui pictured in…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has pledged to further open the country’s vast consumer market to international businesses after Beijing and Washington reached a significant trade deal that was expected to help restore normalcy to global supply chains. Advertisement Addressing about 1,000 government officials, business leaders and merchants at the opening of the China International Import Export (CIIE) in Shanghai on Wednesday, the premier said Beijing remained resolute about supporting globalisation and consolidating its economic ties with trading partners. “At a time when the world economy is slowing down and international…

US President Donald Trump signed an order on Tuesday to lower fentanyl-related tariffs on Chinese products, formalising a key part of his deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after their first face-to-face talks in years. Advertisement Shortly after returning to the presidency this year, Trump imposed additional tariffs of 20 per cent on goods from China over its alleged role in the fentanyl supply chain. But China has since committed efforts to halting the flow of precursors used to make fentanyl into the United States, after Trump and Xi’s summit…

Less than a week after a high-profile summit between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump – a meeting that cooled the trade conflict between Beijing and Washington after months of heated recriminations – American exhibitors are expected to be more visible at this year’s China International Import Expo (CIIE). Advertisement More than a dozen agricultural producers from US breadbasket regions will display their wares at a special pavilion at the high-profile trade show, and several of the country’s multinationals are expected to set up booths at the expo…

When US President Donald Trump fired the opening salvoes of his country’s trade war with China in his first term, Beijing’s currency was on the front lines. Advertisement By 2019, the yuan had tumbled past the benchmark value of seven per US dollar for the first time in over a decade, rattling investors and fuelling speculation that Beijing was allowing depreciation to mitigate the effects of tariffs. As Washington and Beijing began to lock horns once again, with Trump’s second White House foray bringing with it a “trade war 2.0”,…