Washington, May 23 (IANS) A top Republican Senator has reintroduced legislation that would ban American money services businesses from engaging in transactions involving China’s central bank digital currency.The proposed “Chinese CBDC Prohibition Act of 2026” would prohibit money services businesses, including payment platforms such as Venmo and Zelle, currency dealers and even the US Postal Service, from using any central bank digital currency issued by the People’s Republic of China or…
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Brussels, May 18 (IANS) The resignation of Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia city in California, after she agreed to plead guilty to secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government, revealed a troubling reality – Beijing’s influence networks are not confined to Washington or the halls of Congress.They extend into local governments, community organisations, and even small cities where oversight mechanisms are weaker and thereby easier to infiltrate, a report has stated.Writing for European Ti…
Washington, May 15 (IANS) Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has demanded that President Donald Trump publicly disclose any China-linked financial interests involving himself, his family, or senior administration officials as Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.In a letter sent on Thursday, Krishnamoorthi said Americans “deserve confidence” that US policy towards China is being driven by national interests and not private business considerations.“Given the nati…
Washington, April 29 (IANS) The US Department of State has highlighted that Chinese government regulations and procedures continue to impede travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas for US diplomats and officials, journalists, and tourists, with restrictions remaining in place throughout last year. In its latest annual report to the Congress under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018, the US State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs noted th…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Health charity UK Biobank has alerted the UK government after at least three listings offering datasets drawn from its research platform appeared on Chinese e-commerce marketplace Alibaba, a new report has revealed.The listings were removed quickly, and no purchases have been reported to be made as none paid for access to the listings, the report from DW.com said.Ian Murray, the Labour MP for Edinburgh South and a minister of state at the Department of Science, Innovat…
Taipei, March 4 (IANS) Chinese authorities’ campaign of “sexual insinuation and reputational manipulation” against the Dalai Lama reflects a broader pattern of authoritarian tactics. These actions demonstrate that when authoritarian regimes face globally recognised non-coercive symbolic challenges, they resort to disruption to maintain political control, a report mentioned. “The Dalai Lama, on February 1, made history by winning his first Grammy Award for his spoken word album Meditations. The…
Ankara, Feb 10 (IANS) Many of the estimated 50,000 exiled Uyghurs in Turkey who have sought refuge from persecution in their homeland of North West China – particularly those denied permanent citizenship and passports by Turkish authorities – now live in growing fear of being returned to face imprisonment, torture and the wrath of Beijing. Those who escaped the recent wave of arrests and the 2016 internment in China’s so-called “re-education camps” feel particularly vulnerable, a report sa…