Yulin in China to Ban Sale of Dog Meat Ahead of Annual Dog Meat Festival, Say Chinese Animal-Rights Activists
on May 18, 2017
Chinese officials are set to ban the sale of dog meat at the annual Yulin festival, according to China-based activists.
Chinese officials are set to ban the sale of dog meat at the annual Yulin festival, according to China-based activists.
China analysts say Beijing will hesitate before directly casting blame on North Korea even if evidence directly ties the North to the attack. Beijing is more likely to single out other actors, particularly the United States, experts say.
China analysts say Beijing will hesitate before directly casting blame on North Korea even if evidence directly ties the North to the attack. Beijing is more likely to single out other actors, particularly the United States, experts say.
There are more U.S. multinationals in Russia than there are Russian multinationals in the U.S.. Moscow and Beijing are nowhere near as close as Beijing is to Washington, but Russia stands more to gain by the Silk Road than the U.S. if not for location, for the U.S. reluctance to back the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the world to reject protectionism and promote free trade in the latest attempt by Beijing to take up the mantle of globalization since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The meeting will take place in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou, which is also hosting talks on Thursday between China and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on establishing a framework for a code of conduct in the South China Sea.
Central China’s Hunan province plans to encourage people living in poverty to work abroad to achieve its goal of poverty alleviation, according to Xinhua, citing information from the province’s poverty relief authorities.
The latest vehicle for China’s aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and U.S. aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.
Anne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research in late 2007 and is J Capital’s Research Director. Her coverage areas include solar, Internet, medical devices, property, some consumer and direct-sales names, and China’s macro-economy. Stevenson-Yang was co-founder of a group of Online Media Businesses called Blue Bamboo Ventures and also founded and operated a CRM software company, Clarity Data Systems, and a publishing company whose flagship magazine is City Weekend. Over 25 years in China, she has also worked as an industry analyst and trade advocate, heading the U.S. Information Technology Office and, from 1993 to 1997, the China operations of the U.S.-China Business Council. Stevenson-Yang is the author of Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy, Hello, Kitty and Other Stories, and China Alone: The Emergence From, and Potential Return to Isolation.