US President Donald Trump’s national security strategy calls for the government to consider restrictions on “foreign STEM students from designated countries to ensure that intellectual property is not transferred to our competitors”. Photo: Reuters As part of its continuing campaign to prevent China from stealing American intellectual property, President Donald Trump’s administration is considering restrictions on the number of Chinese …

In this image taken from a Jan 6, 2008, video footage by AP Video, Liu Xiaobo looks at documents in his home in Beijing, China. According to a statement Friday, July 7, 2017, on the website of the First Hospital of China Medical University, the Chinese medical team charged with treating imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has stopped using …

Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, though Reutersreported that a source “with direct knowledge of the deal” said it had generated $692m for previous investors CVC Capital Partners. In 2014, the agency sent some 18,500 Chinese students overseas to study Luxembourg-based CVC acquired a majority stake in EIC in 2013 for a reported $200m, buying shares from Actis Capital and EIC’s founder, Joe Li. It appears …