China has become the first country to ground Boeing’s 737 Max 8 plane following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302 yesterday.
The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302 on Sunday (March 10), which killed all 157 people on board, is the second deadly incident in less than six months involving Boeing’s 737 Max series, an aircraft seen as a game-changer for the short-haul industry.
At the National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting in Beijing—part of the annual “Two Sessions” gathering that also includes meetings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference advisory body—premier Li Keqiang presents the government’s “work report,” goes over a road map for the year ahead, and takes questions from foreign correspondents. The report includes the announcement of the economic growth target for the year and plans for military spending.
TikTok, the mini-music-video app launched by Chinese company ByteDance in 2016, last week surpassed one billon downloads, according to app data provider Sensor Tower. That makes it one of the world’s most-installed social networking apps last year behind only Facebook and its offerings.
The second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un ended abruptly today, with no resolution. The day started with a cheery photo-op where the North Korean leader fielded his first question from a foreign reporter (paywall) and expressed cautious hope for a “good result.”
Ahead of Donald Trump’s meeting tonight (Feb. 27) with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, the US president spent some time tweeting, starting with a suitably on-topic message extolling the economic possibilities that could unfold before the isolated country if it denuclearizes:
On Dec. 1, the day that presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires to defuse US-China trade tensions, Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada, at the request of US authorities. Then, as a Chinese delegation arrived in Washington this week to prep for high-level trade talks, the US Justice Department charged Huawei and Meng with a number of crimes, and put in a formal extradition request for Meng with Canada.
The Justice Department unveiled 23 major indictments against Chinese telecom giant Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou on Monday (Jan. 29), and noted that other individuals “who have not yet been apprehended” were also charged.
Among the details embedded along with two dozen allegations that the US brought against Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Monday (Jan. 28), one stands out: a supposed bonus program for stealing trade secrets.
Duncan Clark first met Jack Ma just a few months after the former English teacher had founded a little online business in the eastern city of Hangzhou. “On my first visit, I could count the number of co-founders by the toothbrushes jammed into mugs on a shelf in the bathroom,” Clark, chairman of investment advisory BDA China, wrote in his 2016 book about the company, Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built.
Last year was probably Huawei’s worst since 2012. That year, a US House panel warned that (pdf) using the Chinese telecom giant’s technology could be a national security risk.
Indonesia announced today (Jan. 14) that the cockpit-voice recorder of Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed into the Java Sea in October, has been found.
As China and the US prepared for the start of two days of trade talks in Beijing today (Jan. 7), a White House adviser warned other US companies with sales in China could, like Apple, soon feel some pain. And that’s a good thing, according to Kevin Hassett, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, because it shows that Donald Trump’s tariff war on China is working.
Singapore is infamous for its stringent enforcement of anti-littering laws and chewing gum ban, but another action that could land you in hot water is simply making an online video call.
The year 2018 has seen amazing works of journalism, from exposes of how Facebook used our data (paywall), to uncovering remotely the spread of detention camps (paywall) for Muslims in China, to the battle for the future of affirmative action in America, to how a massacre in Myanmar unfolded, among many others. But from Annapolis to Istanbul, it also was a time of savage attacks on journalists.
In 2013, China gave its financing of infrastructure around the world a new narrative, billing it as a modern-day Silk Road, a reinvention of historic trading routes between Europe and Asia. Last year, China’s lending got another new name, the rather unflattering “debt-trap diplomacy.”
On Dec. 13, 1978, at the close of a Communist Party gathering that lasted over a month, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping delivered a speech that laid out a pragmatic vision for China’s future. It was a country that was then not long out of the grip of the chaos and terror of the Cultural Revolution.
America’s biggest exporter now has its first overseas plant.
Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 at the request of the US on suspicion of violating sanctions on Iran, was granted bail of C$10 million ($7.5 million) in a Vancouver court today (Dec. 11).
Aircraft are the US’s biggest export, making up $95 billion in goods leaving the country in the first nine months of this year. About $12.7 billion of those aircraft exports, or 13%, went to China.
In her apartment in the southwestern city of Chengdu, singer Shen Man carefully applies a set of false eyelashes, gives her eyeliner a final touch-up, then sits in front of her webcam and mic.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, heads of the world’s two largest economies, are set to meet at in Buenos Aires for a “working dinner” on Saturday night that will have global repercussions.
Indonesian investigators released a preliminary crash report today (Nov. 28) that described a battle between the pilots of Lion Air flight JT610 and an automated anti-stall system on the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft that continually forced the plane downward in reaction to incorrect flight data. Less than 15 minutes after the flight took off from Jakarta on Oct. 29, the plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee on Wednesday (Nov. 28) will release a preliminary report on the crash of Lion Air JT610, which plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.
