Questions and Answers about
China
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Why did China “cancel” Keanu Reeves?
Answer: Chinese streaming platforms have taken down films starring Keanu Reeves after participating in a March 3 concert organized by Tibet House US – a New York nonprofit founded by the Dalai Lama. Searches for Reeves’s English name and its Chinese translation now yield no results on Chinese-controlled apps.
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in PlacesWhich lunar year started on Feb. 1, 2022?
Answer: The Year of the Tiger started on Feb. 1, 2022. The Lunar New Year is the Chinese New Year, also celebrated in other Asian countries, including Vietnam and South Korea.
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in SportsWhich country hosts the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Answer: China will host the next Winter Olympics in February 2022. More answers inside!
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in PoliticsThe 2021 climate talks ended with a first deal on what?
Answer: The 2021 COP26 UN climate talks ended with a deal that targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming for the first time. More answers inside!
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in BusinessChina Telecom serves more than 335 million subscribers worldwide. How many are in the US?
The US government said on April 2020 that China Telecom is targeting its mobile virtual network to more than 4 million Chinese Americans. That’s in addition to 2 million Chinese tourists a year visiting the United States, 300,000 Chinese students at American colleges, and the more than 1,500 Chinese businesses in America.
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in BusinessWhat’s China’s stand on cryptocurrency in 2021?
On Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, the Chinese government vowed to root out “illegal” cryptocurrency activities. Beijing’s new blanket ban on all cryptocurrency trading and mining is the broadest yet by a major economy. China is, however, developing an official digital currency of its own.
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in PlacesHow many children are Chinese couples permitted to have?
In June 2021, The Chinese government announced it would now allow all couples to have three children instead of two’ while introducing new policies designed to reduce the financial burden of raising children. ‘
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in BusinessWhat is Nifty?
Nifty is the name of the Indian stock market index (Nifty 50). It’s also a Japanese internet service provider but perhaps best known worldwide as the prenatal DNA test of women and fetuses made in China. The test is sold in at least 52 countries. It screens for Down’s syndrome and more than 80 other…
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in ScienceWhat is Sinovac?
Sinovac is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd._x000D_
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in BusinessHow is the Chinese government limiting online gaming for children?
According to a notice from the Chinese National Press and Publication Administration, China’s continuing crackdown on tech companies.
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in PoliticsWho is Meng Wanzhou?
Meng Wanzhou is the deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer (CFO) of telecom giant and China’s largest privately held company, Huawei, founded by her father, Ren Zhengfei._x000D_
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in PlacesWho’s New Zealand’s largest trading partner?
China is New Zealand’s largest trading partner and was responsible for 29% of New Zealand’s total exports in 2020. New Zealand was the first developed nation to sign a free trade deal with China in 2008. China now buys twice as much from New Zealand as New Zealand’s next most significant market, Australia (12.7% of…