#Beijing lifted #pandemic restrictions in December 2022. Weeks later, satellite images captured cars swarming parking lots outside funeral homes across the country.

https://www.ntd.com/yearly-review-infection-waves-sweep-china-in-2023_963731.html

Could the United States endure the costs of suddenly losing the Chinese market if #Beijing decides to invade #Taiwan? One House panel is asking the Federal Reserve to test out what would happen.

https://www.ntd.com/us-weapons-delivery-delay-concerns-taiwan_963728.html

#Beijing’s Eastern Theater Command, which is stationed in the area around #Taiwan, released pictures on its social media WeChat account showing missile boats performing live-fire drills a day after Taiwan’s presidential election.
https://www.ntd.com/peoples-liberation-army-releases-drill-images-after-taiwan-election_966641.html

#Beijing’s Eastern Theater Command, which is stationed in the area around #Taiwan, released pictures on its social media WeChat account showing missile boats performing live-fire drills a day after Taiwan’s presidential election.
https://www.ntd.com/peoples-liberation-army-releases-drill-images-after-taiwan-election_966641.html

From hope to hesitancy to a total halt as global investors appear unimpressed with #Beijing’s economic rescue package.

It’s not just 2024 that’s a bad start for Chinese stocks, it’s been an uphill battle since 2021. https://www.ntd.com/investor-confidence-in-china-market-plunges_968410.html

Chinese stocks tumbled to a five-year low after regulators vowed to pull the dwindling market back toward stability.

Alongside the issue, #Beijing is boasting about its self-reported 5.2 percent GDP growth in 2023, but calculations from a Japanese financial commentator suggest a different picture.
https://www.ntd.com/china-stock-rebound-unlikely-false-economic-data-reported-analysts_971121.html

#Beijing has intensified its control over its state secrets law, expanding the definition of sensitive information even further and what it could consider criminal if shared.
https://www.ntd.com/ccp-expands-state-secrets-law-for-first-time-in-10-years_976362.html

#HongKong unveiled a proposed law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who “endanger national security”, deepening worries about erosion of the city’s freedoms four years after #Beijing imposed a similar law that all but wiped out public dissent.

https://www.ntd.com/hong-kongs-new-national-security-bill-includes-stiff-penalties-and-more-power-to-suppress-dissent_978466.html

U.S. Treasury Secretary #JanetYellen criticized #Beijing’s “coercive” measures against foreign companies, calling on the regime’s top leadership to provide American businesses and workers “a level playing field.”
https://buff.ly/3U8Hc45

Chinese #runner He Jie took the first-place trophy in a half-marathon race in #Beijing, but an investigation is underway as many speculate that the competition was rigged. https://buff.ly/4d011St