#Lawmakers urge NBA stars not to sign with Chinese brands

#Lawmakers urge NBA stars not to sign with Chinese brands

“#Lawmakers urge NBA stars not to sign with Chinese brands” A US congressional commission is urging US basketball players to terminate endorsement deals with three Chinese companies they warn continue to source cotton from the Xinjiang region — where forced labor and concentration camps are understood as commonplace. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a bipartisan…

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#China’s US apologists: Goodwin

#China’s US apologists: Goodwin

“#China’s US apologists: Goodwin” Don’t mess with China, or you’ll meet your Waterloo and also break your four Achilles’ heels.  That’s the garbled, kitchen-sink warning China is throwing at President Biden after his order for intelligence agencies to probe whether the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab instead of being transmitted from bats to humans. …

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#Western defenders of China’s one-child policy had no excuse

#Western defenders of China’s one-child policy had no excuse

“#Western defenders of China’s one-child policy had no excuse” It isn’t surprising that the Chinese Communist Party, which this week further loosened its legal limits on reproduction, still doesn’t admit that the “one-child” policy that Deng Xiaoping imposed four decades ago was a grievous error, tyrannical in theory and brutally oppressive in practice. But the…

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# Digital yuan conceived to counter Alipay-like platforms, says former PBoC executive

# Digital yuan conceived to counter Alipay-like platforms, says former PBoC executive

“# Digital yuan conceived to counter Alipay-like platforms, says former PBoC executive ” China’s digital yuan will utilize smart contracts, and will be built to counter Alipay-like payment platforms designed by the privately owned conglomerates, former People’s Bank of China director Yao Qian said. Speaking at the International Finance Forum in Beijing, Qian argued that…

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