Sharon's Straight Talk

A popular Chinese restaurant Haidilao had a disturbing secret. What about other Chinese restaurants?

Has China gone too far with India this time? Why does India find China's offer to help suspicious?

Why did China drop Oscars coverage? How did Hollywood's major studios change plot to please the CCP?

China's Belt Road Initiative has turned into DEBT Road Initiative. Montenegro is the newest victim.

Concerns about Chinese vaccine efficacy are rising. Chinese vaccine diplomacy may be backfiring.

China's covert plan of banning bitcoin and supporting overseas crypt exchanges like Huobi.

China takes over social media with paid posts, keyboard warriors; erodes UK Chinese-language media.

17 private schools were already sold to Chinese and many more may be in the pipeline.  You will learn interesting but alarming stories about who the buyers are, who is behind them, why they are buying schools, and their possible plans for their purchases.

Elon Musk opened Tesla Gigaplant in Shanghai in the middle of a fierce US-China Trade War. He did so against the warnings of his own government. Watch and find out the harsh terms that Elon Musk was forced to sign up to with the Chinese government.  Like many other CEOs, Musk was deeply drawn to the opportunities offered by the vast Chinese market.  And everything seemed to be going well, until last month. Early February, in a surprising move, five Chinese government bodies joined forces and demanded that Tesla abides by Chinese laws. Tesla was even accused of spying on the Chinese for the US army. Will innovation and efficiency be enough for Tesla to win the hearts of the Chinese government? Can Elon Musk succeed in one of the trickiest places to do business in the world?

H&M and other Western brands are boycotted in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton over forced labor.