Kari Soo Lindberg
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What You Need to Know About the Chinese Spy Balloon Floating Over the US
The US Defense Department said Thursday it’s monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon floating over the western state of Montana, underscoring mutual suspicion between the world’s two largest economies just as top diplomats prepare to hold talks in Beijing. Here’s everything we know so far: → Read More
US Cuts Taiwan Transits Even as China Steps Up Military Pressure
The US reduced its number of naval transits through the Taiwan Strait in 2022 to the lowest level in four years even as China stepped up military pressure on the island it vows to one day control. → Read More
Hong Kong Tycoon Jimmy Lai Gets More Prison Time for Fraud
A Hong Kong court sentenced Jimmy Lai to five years and nine months in prison, local media reported, adding to the media mogul’s growing jail time as the city cracks down on high-profile dissidents. → Read More
Hong Kong Threat to Move Jimmy Lai Case to China Revives Fears
Bloomberg Law speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news. The show examines all aspects of the legal profession, from intellectual property to criminal law, from bankruptcy to securities law, drawing on the deep research tools of BloombergLaw.com and BloombergBNA.com. Reporters from Bloomberg's Washington, D.C. bureau are prominently… → Read More
Hong Kong’s Bananas-Only Rule Shows Struggle to Exit Covid Curbs
As Hong Kong lifts most pandemic curbs, officials are maintaining a web of confusing rules. Take trail running. The government just removed a ban on race organizers providing food to competitors. Yet the easing came with a strict provision at a race last weekend: Only bananas could be served and runners had to eat them on their own, in silence, away from checkpoints. Participants also needed to… → Read More
Hong Kong Journalist Loses Appeal Over Database Search
A Hong Kong court has upheld the conviction of a journalist who investigated the police response to a 2019 mob attack on pro-democracy protesters, a decision likely to fan concerns about press freedom. → Read More
Xi Defends Covid Zero Without Showing China Path Out of Pandemic
Chinese President Xi Jinping again defended his signature Covid Zero policy, while avoiding setting a timeline on when the strategy that’s become a source of growing frustration for the public will be changed. “We have put people first and put lives first, and upheld ‘dynamic Covid Zero’ without wavering,” he said Sunday in a speech at the opening of the ruling Communist Party’s twice-a-decade… → Read More
Hong Kong Sentences Five Democracy Activists to Detention
A Hong Kong court sentenced five people who belonged to a pro-independence group to up to three years in detention after they were convicted of subverting the state under a Beijing-drafted security law, according to the South China Morning Post. → Read More
Hong Kong Hasn’t Decided on Hotel Quarantine Cut, Lee Says
Hong Kong hasn’t decided whether it will cut the period of time new arrivals must spend in hotel quarantine before a series of high profile events starting at the end of October, and will make the call based on the Covid situation closer to the event, Chief Executive John Lee said. → Read More
Hong Kong Population Drops by Record as People Flee Covid Curbs
Hong Kong’s population dropped by a record as people fled strict Covid-19 restrictions that have hobbled the city as most other regions move on from the pandemic. → Read More
Here Are Hong Kong’s Crackdown Leaders Rewarded in New Cabinet
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee will install a cabinet that retains national security hardliners and elevates officials with strong China ties on Friday, as President Xi Jinping touts his greater control over the financial hub. → Read More
Xi's Tightening Grip on Hong Kong Ushers in New Era of Doubt
Uncertainty remains over whether city can open up to the world → Read More
China’s Xi Jinping Keeps Hong Kong Guessing on In-Person Visit
Days before Hong Kong’s landmark July 1 celebrations, President Xi Jinping is still keeping the city guessing over his in-person attendance, as the former British colony clocks some 2,000 daily Covid cases. → Read More
How the UK's Special Passport Offers Escape Route for Hong Kongers
As China has tightened its control over Hong Kong with a national security law introduced in June 2020, the UK has offered some residents of its former colony a potential route out: a proposal to allow longer stays in Britain and even a pathway to future citizenship. Tough Covid quarantine regulations in Hong Kong have added to the pressure to leave. While some 3 million or more could qualify… → Read More
Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Won’t Seek Second Term, Reports Say
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam won’t run for a second term, according to local media reports, after a recent omicron surge saw the financial hub log the developing world’s highest Covid death rate. → Read More
Hong Kong May Mass Test; Looks to Resolve Flight, Hotel Issues
Hong Kong may enact plans to mass test its residents as infections fall, while officials are also working to address a potential shortage of flights and hotel rooms when curbs are eased, the city’s leader said. → Read More
Hong Kong to Delay Chief Executive’s Election Amid Virus Surge
Hong Kong will delay the chief executive’s election for more than a month, the city’s leader said, as she battles the city’s worst-ever outbreak of Covid-19. → Read More
Hong Kong to Report Record 1,510 Daily Covid Cases, Media Says
Hong Kong will report a record of about 1,510 daily coronavirus cases on Saturday, the local media reported, as city officials prepare to meet mainland counterparts in China to discuss ways of combating a worsening outbreak that is straining healthcare resources. → Read More
China Offers Hong Kong Testing Help as Covid Outbreak Spreads
China has offered Hong Kong help to ramp-up a mass-testing blitz to stem an omicron outbreak in the financial hub, the city’s leader said, adding that broader lockdowns were not yet necessary. → Read More
How Xi’s China Put 1,000-Plus Hong Kong Journalists Out of Work
Security probe stigma left some struggling to find jobs, while others changed profession, emigrated or embraced “lying flat” → Read More