AP PHOTOS: China celebrates Lunar New Year ahead of Olympics The Lunar New Year in China and the Winter Olympics in Beijing get started only days apart this year. The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022
Groups back House provision to bar duty-free Chinese goods - Roll Call It focuses on mailed or express courier shipments of goods valued at $800 or less and not subject to U.S. tariffs or documentation. Roll Call · Feb 1, 2022
Virus infections for Olympic athletes, coaches rising faster Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022
Three reasons why Mattarella’s reappointment as Italy’s president is a huge relief for the west After a tumultuous week of secret votes and intense negotiations between political parties, Italy has reconfirmed Sergio Mattarella as head of state for a second seven-year term. The decision implies that Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister for nearly a year who was seen as a contender to replace Mattarella,… The Conversation · Feb 1, 2022
Spectre of 1936 and 1980 haunts Beijing 2022 as fear and repression breed silence China has been repressing minorities and targeting dissenters but anyone who chooses to speak out faces the threat of reprisal from a hostile regime The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2022
The IOC stays silent on China human rights The Olympics committee says it's committed to human rights, but this time it's declining to take a stand. Axios · Feb 1, 2022
Jiaoying Summers' joke about China's one-child policy made everyone laugh — except TikTok censors LOS ANGELES — Comedian Jiaoying Summers remembers her first time being kicked off a platform. It was on an open-mic stage at a bar in Koreatown where she bombed. Under the spotlight, nervousness gripped her vocal cords and feeble one-liners fell flat in front of a snickering crowd. Two minutes… Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2022
Japan's nationalist firebrand Shintaro Ishihara dies at 89 Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist politician, has died The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022
On Lunar New Year, Chinese pray outside shut temples China is ringing in the Lunar New Year despite pandemic restrictions, as people gathered outside closed temples offering traditional prayers for the Year of the Tiger The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022
FBI Chief: Threat from China 'More Brazen' than Ever Before The threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” and damaging than ever before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday night in accusing Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovation and launching massive hacking operations. The speech at the Reagan Presidential Library amounted to a stinging rebuke… Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 1, 2022
Volkswagen Spied Testing New SUV For China In Europe It should compete with another VW product built by a different joint venture. Motor1 · Feb 1, 2022
Fireworks ban pays off as Beijing records best air quality for Lunar New Year's eve A ban on fireworks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics helped China's capital record its cleanest air for a Lunar New Year since it first started monitoring air pollutants, known as PM2.5, nine years ago. Reuters · Feb 1, 2022
Nio Deliveries Fall 8% Sequentially In January With Lunar New Year Holidays: What You Need To Know U.S.-listed Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) said on Tuesday deliveries fell in January over the previously month — ahead of the traditionally slow-sales season around the Lunar New Year. China New Year Holiday starts on Jan. 31 and lasts till Feb. 6 this year. Benzinga · Feb 1, 2022
Video of woman chained to wall in shack causes outcry in China Debate over treatment of people with mental illness revived as authorities launch investigation The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2022
The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022 Asia shares gain, trading closed in Korea, China for holiday Asian shares have advanced, mirroring broad overnight gains on Wall Street
The Japan News/Yomiuri · Feb 1, 2022 Cooperating in N. Korea's missile development can never be allowed North Korea has again launched a ballistic missile. The international community must step up pressure to stop the outflow of related materials and technology from Russia and China.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 1, 2022 Beijing Olympics Says Growing COVID Cases Are 'within Controllable Range' The COVID-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range", despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior official at China's Olympics Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said on Tuesday. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has reported 200 COVID cases since Jan.
The Conversation · Feb 1, 2022 Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Dutton on US combat assets in Australia, China, and Vladimir Putin Defence Minister Peter Dutton says he would like to see more American combat capability based in Australia.
The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2022 China more ‘brazen and damaging’ than ever, says FBI director Bureau opening cases on Chinese intelligence operations every 12 hours, says Christopher Wray, as George Soros calls Xi Jinping the ‘greatest threat’ to open society
Reuters · Feb 1, 2022 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese politician who set off row with China, dies at 89 -NHK Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist who was governor of Tokyo for more than a decade and set off a territorial row with China over a plan to buy islands claimed by both nations, died on Tuesday, NHK public television said. He was 89.
Reuters · Feb 1, 2022 Former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara dies at age of 89 - NHK Shintaro Ishihara, a fiery nationalist who was governor of Tokyo for more than a decade and set off a territorial row with China over a plan to buy islands claimed by both nations, died on Tuesday, NHK public television said. He was 89.
The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2022 Omicron sub-variant detected in 57 countries, says WHO – as it happened This blog is now closed
The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022 A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in part from historical resistance movements that had once been sanctioned by the ruling Communist Party
Reuters · Feb 1, 2022 Olympics-Beijing Games organisers hope to have 30% capacity in venues Organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are hoping for stadium capacities of at least 30% despite China's enforcement of tight regulations to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.
Reuters · Feb 1, 2022 Japan parliament adopts resolution on human rights in China Japan's parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution on the "serious human rights situation" in China, and called Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government to take steps to relieve the situation, as the Beijing Winter Olympics loom just days ahead.