Jacob Bojesson Asian condom manufacturers saw their shares drop Friday after the Chinese government announced that couples can now have two children instead of one. Many businesses making baby-related products are cheering the increased cap, expecting increased revenue from an expected additional 3 million to 6 million babies each year. Credit Suisse estimates the additional babies will result in an additional…
Ethan Barton Chinese and Russian propaganda supplements are regularly included in The Washington Post, but the widely read newspaper won’t say how much money it gets on the deals. China Watch – a China Daily publication – and Russia Beyond The Headlines – a Rossiyskaya Gazeta publication – have both appeared in the Post for years…
Steve Ambrose It appears that a familiar cyber foe has been caught (again) with his Chinese hand in the digital cookie jar. U.S. officials have determined that Chinese hackers breached the health insurance company Anthem in order to gain insight into the American medical system, Financial Times reports. Anthem noticed the breach February after the hackers accessed the information of…
Steve Birr The U.S. will start selling millions of barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as part of the bipartisan budget deal reached Monday night, as China continues to add to their oil stockpile. Beginning in 2018 and extending through 2025, the U.S. will sell a total of 58 million barrels of…
By R. Brownell China’s first lady, Peng Liyuan (who has been dubbed “the Chinese Kate Middleton”) recently attended the Lord Mayor’s banquet for her husband’s visit to the UK, but seemed to have suffered a severe make-up mishap. We can’t be too hard on her though, since the Chinese president had some issues of his own…. The Chinese president and his wife…
Next time you’re stuck in traffic cursing everything around, just take a moment to remember this video and be thankful we don’t have any roads as congested as this! A 50 lane highway in China is backed up for miles in what has to be the world’s worst traffic jam EVER. I would abandon my…
By: Laura Meyers Sometimes people call their nice cars their “baby,” and most of the time they’re kidding. But sometimes, they’re not. One woman in China recently let the world know that she valued her BMW’s window more than her son’s life. In the city of Yiwu, China, large crowds had gathered around a luxury…