An employee uses balloons to attract customers at a fashion retailer during a promotional sale at a shopping mall in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 1, 2019. (Andy Wong/AP)The Chinese regime announced a lower minimum purchase amount on April 27 for tax refunds for foreign tourists and other measures to boost consumption amid a tariff war with the United States. Analysts are skeptical about their effect. China’s Ministry of

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Chinese nationals (background R) and their alleged Filipino accomplices (L), arrested for alleged espionage, are escorted out of a room by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents after a press conference at the NBI office in Manila, Philippines, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images)A Chinese national has been arrested by the Philippine equivalent of the FBI on suspicion of spying after allegedly being found with an electronic eavesdropping device in the trunk of his car. The man, identified as 47-year-old Lao Tak-Hoi, was allegedly in

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