Military urged to hone its combat skills: China Daily

January 5, 2021

President Xi Jinping ordered the military on Monday to further strengthen its training and exercises this year so as to hone its operational capability and combat preparedness.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, signed the commission's first order for 2021, which listed priorities in the training of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force.Click here to read...

New York Stock Exchange scraps plan to delist China’s telecoms stocks in surprise U-turn before policy takes effect: South China Morning Post

January 5, 2021

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it would no longer delist three of China’s biggest telecommunications companies to comply with a November 2020 executive order by US President Donald Trump, in a surprise policy U-turn before the first delisting takes effect. Shares of the three companies – China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom (Hong Kong) – soared on the Hong Kong exchange after the NYSE’s announcement.Click here to read...

China to remove barriers hindering implementation of regulation on improving business environment: Xinhuanet

January 5, 2021

Premier Li Keqiang heard a report on the third-party assessment of the implementation of the Regulation on Improving the Business Environment while chairing the State Council Executive Meeting on Monday, and urged greater efforts to remove barriers and provide stronger legal underpinning for the business environment.Click here to read...

China victim of U.S. "coercive diplomacy": FM spokesperson: Xinhuanet

January 4, 2021

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday that it is the United States that is engaging in threats and coercion everywhere in the world and China is the victim of such "coercive diplomacy".A Swedish local newspaper recently reported that the United States pressured Sweden to exclude Huawei from participating in Sweden's 5G construction.Click here to read...

Jack Ma’s Disappearing Act Fuels Speculation about Billionaire’s Whereabouts: The Epoch Times

January 4, 2021

Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a TV show on which he was to appear as a judge, has fueled social media speculation over his whereabouts amid a Chinese regulatory clampdown on his sprawling business empire.Click here to read...

China's highest military post at border with India revealed: Global Times

January 4, 2021

For the first time, China's military post at the highest altitude in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region was revealed to the public Sunday by China Central Television (CCTV). Click here to read...