#1 Real Estate Titans Battle DeSantis Over China Property Crackdown

Dec 12 2023 // (Bloomberg) — Ron DeSantis rattled corporate America by making Walt Disney Co. a target of his conservative culture wars. Now, the Florida governor’s campaignto rid the state of Chinese influence is fueling a...

#2 Typhoon That Hit China’s Ports Provides Wakeup Call for Climate Risk to Markets

Dec 12 2023 // As Typhoon Doksuri aimed toward mainland China, major southeast ports were forced to turn away dozens of vessels for days.The storm, supercharged by the warm July waters of the Pacific, delivered Beijing’s worst...

#3 Zombie Tanker Turns Up at Northern Chinese Port Laden With Oil

Sep 30 2024 // Singapore-flagged oil tanker EM Longevity made its final voyage almost three years ago, after more than two decades at sea. Earlier this month, ship-tracking data showed it arriving at a Chinese port, loaded with crude and...

#4 PwC’s China Unit Suspended for 6 Months, Hit With Record Fine for Evergrande Audit

Sep 13 2024 // Chinese regulators on Friday hit PwC’s auditing unit in mainland China with a six-month business suspension and a record fine of 441 million yuan ($62 million) over the firm’s audit of troubled property...

#5 UK Fears Chinese Hackers Compromised Critical Infrastructure

Oct 16 2024 // Chinese state actors have made widespread — and likely successful — efforts to access British critical infrastructure networks, according to UK officials, underscoring fears of vulnerabilities to increasingly...

#6 Dark Fleet Oil Tanker Caught in Recent Collision Heads to China

Oct 24 2024 // A dark-fleet oil tanker that was recently involved in a crash in Southeast Asia is now on its way to China.Ceres I, an aging very-large crude carrier that’s suspected of transporting sanctioned oil, is en route to...

#7 China Evergrande’s Alleged $78 Billion Fraud Is Among World’s Worst

Mar 19 2024 // China Evergrande Group’s alleged $78 billion revenue overstatement escalates the legal peril of founder Hui Ka Yan, who now stands at the center of one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history.The...

#8 US, UK Accuse China of Cyberespionage That Hit Millions of People

Mar 26 2024 // U.S. and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and...

#9 US Disabled Chinese Hacking Network Targeting Critical Infrastructure, Sources Say

Jan 31 2024 // The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials...

#10 PwC Probe Spotlight Shifts to Hong Kong After Record China Fine

Sep 17 2024 // The focus of a lengthy probe into PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s China business now shifts to Hong Kong after the accounting firm was hit with a record fine in the mainland over its audit of failed developer China...

#11 China Weighs Record Fine for PwC Over Evergrande Audit Work

May 30 2024 // China is poised to impose a record fine on PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and suspend some of the global auditor’s local operations over its role in one of the nation’s biggest alleged financial fraud cases,...

#12 US Accuses China of Vast Cyber-Espionage Against Telecoms

Nov 14 2024 // Chinese state-sponsored hackers perpetrated a “broad and significant cyber-espionage campaign” in which they breached multiple telecommunications companies, US officials said in a statement on Wednesday,...

#13 FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing to Attack US Infrastructure

Apr 19 2024 // Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday.An...

#14 Microsoft Says it Caught Hackers From China, Russia and Iran Using its AI Tools

Feb 15 2024 // State-backed hackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using tools from Microsoft-backed OpenAI to hone their skills and trick their targets, according to a report published on Wednesday.Microsoft said in its report...

#15 US Lawmakers Grill Microsoft President Over China Ties, Hacks

Jun 17 2024 // Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal...

#16 PwC Starts Mass China Layoffs After Losing Dozens of Clients

Jul 10 2024 // PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is cutting staff across its China operations, according to people familiar with the matter, after an exodus of corporate clients diminished the accounting firm’s revenue prospects in the...

#17 If China Invades Taiwan, It Would Cost World Economy $10 Trillion

Jan 11 2024 // War over Taiwan would have a cost in blood and treasure so vast that even those unhappiest with the status quo have reason not to risk it. Bloomberg Economics estimate the price tag at around $10 trillion, equal to about...

#18 China Evergrande Group’s Liquidators Start Legal Action Against PwC

Aug 7 2024 // China Evergrande Group’s liquidators have launched court proceedings against PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, another legal step to recover at least a fraction of creditors’ investments from the property...

#19 US Cyber Chief Sees ‘Very Aggressive’ Chinese Hacking Strategy

Jun 4 2024 // A top US spy chief said China is increasingly using its companies to find vulnerabilities in their own computer networks and then tapping that knowledge to target foreign nations and industries.“We’re really...

#20 FBI Disrupts Vast Chinese Hacking Operation That Infected Consumer Devices

Sep 23 2024 // The FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations, Director Chris Wray said last week.The hacking campaign...

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