Tag: China
China bans some government employees from using iPhones
full screen Stock image. Photo: Richard Drew/AP China bans employees of certain ministries from using iPhones. The mobile war is thus escalating. In the past, the United States and other…
Why the Rockstar company logo is now hanging on many cars in China
It looks like an ingenious marketing campaign for GTA 6, is a curious coincidence: in China, the logo of the gaming studio Rockstar Games dangles from the cars of a…
Automobile: facing China, the blues of German manufacturers
Between Volkswagen and China, the honeymoon will have lasted four decades. Arrived in the country on the eve of the 1980s, the German giant produced its millionth vehicle there twenty…
Vast ‘cemeteries’ where electric cars rot appear in China
Hundreds of electric cars have been abandoned in dismal graveyards that proliferate across China. Staggering footage has emerged showing endless rows of nearly identical vehicles piling up in a field…
Signs of appeasement between South Korea and China in the tourism sector
While South Korea and China have increased economic and geopolitical disagreements in recent months, Beijing and Seoul have exchanged gestures of appeasement in the tourism sector. China has lifted its…
50 million apartments in China gaping empty: “Too expensive”
China has launched reforms intended to stimulate the ailing real estate industry in the country, to prevent an economic crash for the country. But analysts do not believe that the…
China: when Beijing redraws its map… and appropriates neighboring territories
The sovereignty of several States still violated. Inherited from the wars against the colonial powers and the takeover of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the border disputes of the People’s…
China: 770 strikes and demonstrations in factories in the first half of 2023
We note a slight improvement in factory activity in China. The index of manufacturing purchasing managers, published Friday, September 1 by Caixin, is at its highest level since February: 51,…
“Planet China Zero Covid, three years in orbit”, by Gaëlle Déchelette and Carole Gabay
The terms “Zero Covid” in China have disappeared from the country’s official press since the relaxation of sanitary measures last winter. During the pandemic, the expatriate association Solidarité Covid carried…
China sinks the Charles-de-Gaulle off Taiwan
Russian tanks enter Estonia, Madagascar retakes the Scattered Islands from France, Erdogan’s Turkey attacks the Imia Islands, the Charles-de-Gaulle sunk by China, Mali falls into the hands of jihadists… With…