Foreign Secretary: China talks not a “comfortable chit chat” as hawks circle April 30, 2023 Dealing with China is not a “comfortable chit chat over tea and biscuits”, the Foreign Secretary has said. James Cleverly insisted it was important to maintain dialogue with Xi Jinping’s regime, as hawkish Conservatives urge him to take a harsher line with China over reported human rights abuses in Xinjiang province and Hong Kong. In [...]
US says G7 will resist Chinese ‘coercion’ as Taiwan tensions heighten, per reports April 18, 2023 A US official has said the G7 nations will resist any “coercion” from China during a key summit in Japan, as tensions heighten over Taiwan, according to reports. Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven countries – the UK, the US, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Italy – are meeting in the central Japanese city [...]
Liz Truss to criticise high taxes and warn of authoritarian ‘threat’ April 11, 2023 Liz Truss is to renew her advocacy of low taxes in a speech questioning whether western nations are “match fit to take on China”. Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister will suggest the 1980s “Anglo-American” economic model of increased privatisation and limited government is being “strangled into stagnation” in the latest leg of her comeback to the [...]
China sends warships and jets towards Taiwan April 8, 2023 China has sent warships and dozens of fighter jets towards Taiwan, the island’s government said. The move came in retaliation for a meeting between the US House of Representatives speaker and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory. The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat [...]
Ed Warner: Is China about to bring Russia and its athletes in from the sporting cold? March 30, 2023 The war in Ukraine doesn’t look like ending any time soon. Just as Russia is recalibrating its geopolitical and industrial relations, so the prospect of a conflict stretching years into the future will necessitate a realignment of its place in the sporting world. Asia’s warmth towards the Kremlin points a way back into the international [...]
After fining Deloitte £25m, China vows to discipline the Big Four March 27, 2023 China has vowed to toughen its stance towards the Big Four accounting firms after hitting Deloitte with a £25m fine for auditing failures. After meeting with Deloitte’s global chair Sharon Thorne, China’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) outlined plans yesterday to “strengthen” its supervision of the country’s audit sector by “strictly” enforcing “financial discipline.” China’s vice [...]
City Hall bans TikTok app despite Sadiq Khan’s 47,000 followers March 26, 2023 TikTok has been banned on London City Hall devices amid ongoing security concerns. Staff will no longer be allowed to have the video sharing app on their official devices as part of the latest ban to hit the Chinese-owned firm over data privacy fears. Greater London Authority (GLA) officials said the rule was implemented as [...]
TikTok blocked on London City Hall devices in latest ban on Chinese-owned app March 25, 2023 London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban amid security concerns over the social media app.
Putin the boot in: Vladimir takes swipe at Britain over Russian sport ban lobbying March 23, 2023 Vladimir Putin has accused Russia’s critics including the UK of “using sports for unseemly purposes”. Putin said calls, led by Britain, for Russian athletes to remain banned from international sport were politically motivated. “Western countries are trying to use sports for unseemly purposes as a tool of pressure,” the Russian president told news agency TASS. [...]
TikTok: Chinese owned firm updates rulebook to include ‘human rights’ commitment as western security fears build March 21, 2023 TikTok has rolled out updated rules and standards for content and users as it faces increasing pressure from western authorities over concerns that material on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app could be used to push false information. The company released a reorganised set of community guidelines that include eight principles to guide content moderation decisions. “These [...]