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The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) threat to American national security extends into our financial markets and impacts American investors.  Many major stock and bond indices developed by index providers like MSCI and FTSE include malign People’s Republic of China (PRC) companies that are listed on the  Department of Defense’s List of “Communist Chinese military companies” (CCMCs). The money flowing into these index funds – often passively, from U.S. retail investors ...

17 December 2020 0:15 GMT Updated  17 December 2020 0:15 GMT in  Singapore OPINION: This months decision by outgoing US President Donald Trump to add China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to a blacklist of sanctioned companies with alleged ties to the Chinese military has escalated tensions between China and the US and will likely curb CNOOC’s access to US investors. So far, however, the move has had a limited impact on the company’s operations and its partners, eve...

Tech in 2020: It is a political world Technology has often influenced politics. But, everything went upside down in 2020. This was a year when politics influenced technology across the globe, giving some tough moments to both leaders and users. Manas Tiwari | December 16, 2020 | Updated 13:24 IST Political developments influenced technology sector in many ways. Highlights Donald Trump maintained his strong stance against Huawei Big tech giants were pushed against the wall on multiple occasions...

Paul Lipscombe December 4, 2020 Challengers like China’s Xiaomi and Oppo are staking a claim for a top-three slot globally. How will it pan out? The battle for positions in the global smartphone arena has changed significantly over the past 18 months. Huawei was previously tipped by many industry analysts to take top spot from Samsung long-term, with the success of handsets such as its P20, P30 and Mate 20 range shaking up the smartphone space and challenging the dominance of Samsung and Appl...

December 2020 Update - U.S.-China Economic Report Cathay Bank | UCLA Anderson Forecast U.S.-China Economic Report December 2020 The election is over with and there will be a change in administrations come January 20th. However, that does not eliminate all of the uncertainty with respect to U.S. economic policy. There could well be a divided Congress, and the outgoing administration may have some new directives that were not previously forecast. However, over the past two years, in a country th...

The election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States, at the expense of Donald Trump’s bid for a second term, is undoubtedly a ray of hope for multilateralists. The Trump administration was a divisive edifice with no clear policy direction, save for satisfying Trump’s atavistic desires for untrammelled power, domination and fealty. He won the surprise 2016 election by appealing to the baser instincts of human nature, deflecting responsibility for one’s problem onto a perce...

[co-author: Crystal Fomba] On December 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an import detention or Withhold Release Order (WRO) against cotton produced by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) based on information that reasonably indicated XPCC used forced labor within its cotton supply chains. This action comes after CBP issued five WROs in September 2020 on products found to be reliant on state-sponsored forced labor in Xinjiang. The U.S. government has express...

READ MORE And HarmonyOS is the most significant change, as Huawei devices will drop Android for this new mobile operating system in 2021. Its believed HarmonyOS will have a similar look and feel to the current EMUI, but things going on in the background will be vastly different. HarmonyOS is built to work across a wide range of devices, from smartphones, to wearables, to TVs and even for in-car entertainment systems. But with Huawei being one of the biggest smartphone makers in the world, argua...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (the Uyghur Bill) on September 22, 2020, by a vote of 406-3. The Uyghur Bill is in reaction to reports that the government of China has been using forced labor of its Uyghur citizens, mainly in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Province (XUAP). There appears to be widespread support in Congress for the basic provisions of the Uyghur Bill, and we expect that the S...

About that was nondebatable and now hes showing his pragmatism here that they would rather leave with something in hand than nothing in hand. when they do meet by the time that chinese delegation leaves to have a broad outline of a deal? >> i dont think that -- its my sense that they might not have a broad outline of a deal. that would be too hard to come. there are many things the u.s. wants that china wont budge on. intellectual property. enforcement in the agreement. whats going to complicate...