Pressure from China’s internet regulator has lead Weibo Corp. to suspend some of its microblogging functions, having allegedly failed to remove inappropriate content, Caixin Global reports. Weibo’s ‘hot tag’ function, akin to a twitter hashtag, went out of operation on Saturday evening following an announcement by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) that this feature had […]
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BIOTECH BOOM?
Concerns begin to grow surrounding China’s $4 trillion bond market, the FT reports, with over half the outstanding debt reaching maturation in the next five years. Debtors ranging from companies and state-backed corporations to sovereign borrowers have undergone a borrowing spree in recent years, helping to finance many aspects of the economy’s rapid growth. They […]
Davos is on, and this year it is Trump who is the main speaker, as opposed to Xi last year. Much has changed in the past year, and most of it to the benefit of Beijing. The FT’s excellent columnist Martin Wolf has an article about how sick Western democratic capitalism is, and it’s certainly […]
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