Beijing’s Winter Games Grounds Are Dusted With Real Snow For A Second

After more than a week of racing on machine-made snow-covered tracks, the Olympians in Beijing are waking up to real snow again. The forecast for Sunday was for mild storms and temperatures around 25 degrees Fahrenheit. The day before, fixed It had snowed in ZhangjiakouAbout 100 miles northwest of China’s capital is a city that …

Inside Beijing’s Olympic Bubble: Robots, Swabs, and a Big Gamble

BEIJING: Strategy is daring and suffocating, and that’s the point. According to Chinese officials, the creation of a giant bubble was their best (and perhaps only) hope for safely holding the Olympic Games and maintaining a “zero Covid” policy, a priority for the government and a source of national pride. The game organizers said they …

Why Wall Street Supports China Despite Beijing’s Tighter Grip

This year has been troubling for Chinese trade. The ruling Communist Party pursued the private sector industry by industry. Stock markets took a big hit. The country’s largest real estate developer on the verge of collapse. But for some of the biggest names on Wall Street, China’s economic prospects look brighter than ever. BlackRock, the …

Failure of China’s Microchip Giant Tests Beijing’s Tech Ambitions

one in 2015 obscure company run by a real estate mogul awakened the world to China’s passion for semiconductors, the core technology that powers computing. Loaded with government funding and political support, the company has stunned with a $23 billion bid to buy the American chip maker. Micron. Six years later, China’s possible microchip champion …