The Epoch Times

Commentary At the recently concluded 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the number of representatives of private entrepreneurs was reduced by nearly half from the already small number 10 years ago—the latest sign that China’s economic system is…

In response to the declining status of Hong Kong as an international financial hub, expanding family offices (rich people setting up private companies to manage investment) has become one of the critical performance indicators (KPI’s) for the Hong Kong government.…

Germany must avoid repeating with China the mistakes that it made in its relationship with Russia over recent years, the German foreign minister said on Oct. 18. “We must first of all learn from the mistakes of our Russia policy…

TikTok, owned by ByteDance in China, will build a global fulfillment center in Seattle, and set up an e-commerce supply chain system, said its job listings on LinkedIn, as first revealed by Axios on Oct. 11. The ads in the past…

Hong Kong was saved by a group of Wall Street executives, who forced Beijing to allow the city to drop draconian quarantine policies which have lasted for two years. In a bid to revive Hong Kong’s rapidly eroding status as…

New Zealand’s (NZ) trade minister met last week with his Chinese counterpart to finalise details around an “upgrade” to its free trade agreement (FTA), which will come into effect on April 7. NZ’s Damien O’Connor said it was a “significant…

Beijing’s new digital currency is a tool that could prop up authoritarian regimes around the world, including China, and the Chinese paperless money could also undermine U.S. leadership in finance, warned a global finance professional. “This is a surveillance tool…

U.S. stock and bond markets fell in response to the announcement from the Federal Reserve on Jan. 26 that it will soon raise its benchmark interest rate and end its asset tapering program in early March. The NYSE Composite fell…