New Zealand has prevented a leading telecommunications operator from installing fifth-generation (5G) wireless equipment from Chinese firm Huawei due to national security concerns, the latest blow to the company that several countries have accused of having close ties to Beijing, the Financial Times reports. Huawei has already faced similar bans in the United States and Australia, and […]
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Senior White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that progress on resolving trade differences between the US and China had stalled in the run up to the highly-anticipated meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump later this week, CNBC reports. It was now up to Xi to “step up and come up with new […]
China made a late push to curry international favour on Tuesday by saying the country aims at opening its economy “even wider” to the outside world, the Financial Times reports. Speaking in Hamburg, Liu also promised that the government was working at “greatly improving” intellectual property protection for foreign companies in China. He then called […]
Hundreds of Google staff have expressed their opposition to the tech giant’s latest plans to launch a censored version of its search function on the Chinese mainland, triggering support from human rights activist groups, Reuters reports. In an open letter published on blogging site Medium, the employees said that concessions made to the Chinese government […]
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has accused Western lenders of attaching unfair and unrealistic conditions to their aid to developing countries and praised China’s position of not interfering in debtor nations’ domestic affairs. “China are true friends who offer help without any conditions,” Magufuli said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a $39 million university library built […]