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China Factor Staff

China Factor staff writers cover a range of issues from Beijing’s global ambitions to the rise of China’s economy. They also serve up the latest news, views and analysis of the political landscape along with developments in science and technology in the world’s second-largest economy. Cross-Strait tension between China and Taiwan is another key area of interest as is the regional rivalry in the South China Sea. Chinese companies we cover include Huawei, Xiaomi, Alibaba, Tencent, Nvidia, Baidu, China Mobile, ByteDance, Neusoft, China Telecom and China Unicom. Banks covered include Bank of China, HSBC, China Merchants Bank, Communications Bank and others.

China is launching a crackdown on the high life

June 20, 2023June 19, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Communist Party’s anti-graft agency targets the financial sector as the economy tanks amid jobs gloom

Categories Austerity Drive Tags Bonus Cuts, China, Financial Sector, Luxury Crackdown, News, President Xi Jinping, Salary Freeze, Tanking Economy Leave a comment

War with China leaves Washington ‘freaking out’ 

June 16, 2023June 15, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Pentagon planners ‘fear that Beijing understands the deficiency in American readiness’ for a Taiwan conflict 

Categories Between The Lines Tags China, Missing Millionaires, News, Pentagon Fears, Soaring Unemployment, Taiwan Invasion, United States Leave a comment

China’s spying activity in Cuba opens old US wounds

June 14, 2023June 13, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Missile crisis is etched in the American psyche after the world was brought to the brink of nuclear war

Categories Surveillance Row Tags Beijing Blast, China Spying, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, News, Soviet Union, United States Leave a comment

Bioweapons, Covid cover-up and that Wuhan leak

June 19, 2023June 12, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Major investigation reveals scientists at a high-security lab worked ‘alongside’ the Chinese ‘military’

Categories Inside China Tags China, Chinese Military, Covid-19 Catastrophe, Lab Leak Theory, News, The Long Read, World Health Organization, Wuhan Leave a comment

Why Xi will not be tuning into US drama Succession

June 9, 2023June 8, 2023 by China Factor Staff

There is not a single candidate waiting in the wings to take over from China’s ‘Chairman of Everything’

Categories Between The Lines Tags China, Communist Party, Germany, Military Tension, News, United States, Xi Succession Leave a comment

AI cameras spy on Chinese citizens in Xi crackdown

June 7, 2023June 6, 2023 by China Factor Staff

China’s Communist Party has made it clear that it does not trust the people it is supposed to serve

Categories National Security Tags AI Cameras, Communist Party of China, National Security, News, People Spying, President Xi Jinping Leave a comment

China’s answer to democracy in Taiwan is brute force

June 6, 2023June 5, 2023 by China Factor Staff

General Li Shangfu parrots President Xi Jinping’s South China Sea policy during his Singapore speech

Categories China-US Tension Tags Communist Party of China, News, People's Liberation Army, Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore, United States Leave a comment

Comrade Xi’s obsession with national security

June 2, 2023June 1, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Shifts in Chinese policy will be ‘increasingly shaped’ by ‘security considerations’ not ‘economic ones’

Categories Between The Lines Tags China, Communist Party, Grave Robbers, Lab Leak Theory, National Security, New Covid Wave, News Leave a comment

Economic misery and tech controversy plague China

June 1, 2023May 31, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Factory activity tanks as slump continues amid allegations about a new advanced Chinese chip

Categories Business Risks Tags Business Risks, China, Chip Controversy, Economic Slump, High Unemployment, News Leave a comment

Death of a Party and China’s vicious crackdown

May 30, 2023May 29, 2023 by China Factor Staff

Hong Kong is just another example of Beijing’s suppression of civil liberties and human rights

Categories Going, Going, Gone Tags Banned, China, Civic Party, Communist Party of China, Hong Kong, National Security Law, News Leave a comment
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