The coronavirus is not only challenging healthcare systems across the world, it is also damaging the idea of globalization. Factories and stores across China have largely remained closed after the Lunar New Year. This has affected the domestic economy and international markets that rely on China’s manufacturing prowess. A hit to globalization According to Neil ...
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to restrict China’s access to American chipmaking equipment. The move is specifically targeted at Chinese companies like Huawei, which the U.S. government considers a security threat to the West. Restricting Chinese access “To target global chip sales to Huawei, U.S. authorities would alter the Foreign Direct Product Rule, which ...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The organization has been caught up in several sexual abuse claims and has suffered losses as part of providing compensation to the victims. BSA is one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S. Bankruptcy “The national organization of the Boy Scouts ...
Fears are growing that the COVID-19 outbreak could reach a pandemic scale as more cases emerge around the world. A pandemic is when an infectious disease spreads easily from person to person in many parts of the world. What we know More than 77,000 people in China, where the virus emerged last year, have been ...
In 2017, a Chinese-run space station in Argentina’s Patagonia region was inaugurated. According to officials, the space station is solely used for scientific purposes. However, the fact that its operations are managed by the Chinese military raises strong suspicions about the facility. The space station The station is located on a 494-acre compound and is ...
Beijing’s censorship on the coronavirus outbreak is not only limited to China but has also expanded into other countries like the U.S. Whether by removing online posts or threatening people who speak the truth about the coronavirus, the Chinese communist government is doing everything it can to crush any criticism raised against it. Silencing critics ...
Admiral Philip Davidson, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, recently accused China of destabilizing the Pacific by threatening the sovereignty of several islands in the region. Beijing claims that the entire South China Sea belongs to it, something that is dismissed by countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia, which also claim areas of the ...
The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that it has charged four Chinese citizens, suspected of working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with stealing the personal data of millions of Americans. The hacking took place in 2017 when the criminals breached the servers of credit reporting agency Equifax and stole private data like the names, social ...
The U.S. Department of Education (DoED) has started an investigation into Harvard and Yale for not reporting the millions of dollars in foreign contracts and foreign money they received over several years. U.S. federal law mandates that universities and colleges report all the contracts and foreign money they receive from foreign sources that are in ...
The United States government has charged Chinese tech company Huawei and its subsidiaries with violating anti-racketeering laws and conspiring to steal trade secrets from American companies. They apparently stole IPs from six U.S. firms, involving products like robot testing technology, Internet routers, and antennas. Theft campaign “Prosecutors said the company used various means of ‘fraud ...
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