NPR

In the shadow of U.S. export controls, China rallies its own chip industry

SHENZHEN, China — The tech company SiCarrier is hardly a household name. The government-backed Chinese firm makes things most people have probably never heard of, like epitaxy equipment and atomic ...
Wall Street Journal

All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe’s Problem

LONDON—President Trump’s crackdown on Chinese imports in the U.S. has redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe. Some of it is pooled in Xue Er’s backyard. A stay-at-home mom in her 40s who ...
The Straits Times

China shadow bank’s missed payments show growing property stress

BEIJING - A redemption crisis in eastern China is reviving concerns about the loosely regulated shadow-banking industry as the nation’s prolonged property slump risks spilling over into the financial ...
TradeWinds

Russian shadow LNG carrier offloads Baltic plant-produced cargo in China

Russian energy giant Gazprom has shipped a cargo from its sanctioned Portovaya LNG terminal to China on board a shadow fleet LNG carrier. Kpler data shows the sanctioned 170,567-cbm LNG carrier Valera ...
gijn.org

Hong Kong’s Deadly Fire, Tuna Fishing’s Labor Abuses, AI Deepfakes Target Ukraine Press, China’s ‘Shadow’ Fleet Preps for Invasion

The South China Morning Post reconstructed how one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires swept through a housing complex, with illustrations and 3D modeling showing how construction materials and wind fueled ...