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#1 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...

#2 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...

#3 China State Media Warn Trump Against Mutually Destructive Tariff War

Nov 27 2024 // China’s state media warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump his pledge to slap additional tariffs on Chinese goods over fentanyl flows could drag the world’s top two economies into a mutually destructive...

#4 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...

#5 US Treasury Says It Was Breached by Chinese-Backed Hacker

Dec 31 2024 // The US Treasury Department was hacked by a Chinese state-sponsored actor through a third-party software service provider, according to a letter the agency sent to Congress on Monday.Treasury described the intrusion as a...

#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 US Probes China-Founded Router Maker on National Security Fears

Dec 18 2024 // The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chinese cyber attacks,...

#8 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...

#9 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...

#10 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...

#11 Brazil Says Workers at China’s BYD Site Are Victims of Human Trafficking

Dec 31 2024 // Chinese workers at a construction site in Brazil for a factory owned by China’s electric vehicle producer BYD are victims of human trafficking, Brazilian labor authorities said on Thursday in a growing controversy in...

#12 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...

#13 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,...

#14 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,...

#15 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...

#16 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...

#17 Can China Shield the Biggest Uninsured Economy From Floods?

Dec 19 2024 // The rivers and canals that meander through Hemudu in southeastern China are a vital source of life and community — they provide income for fishermen, an after-school hangout spot for kids, and define the town’s...

#18 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...

#19 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...

#20 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...