Amedeo Tumolillo is an editorial consultant with The China Project and award-winning multimedia journalist. He previously worked at The New York Times and Spectrum. Follow him on Twitter at @hellotumo.
Marks & Spencer has joined a number of Western retailers that have failed in the increasingly difficult struggle to win over China’s mass market, as consumption slows and local firms pull ahead of foreign operations, writes Nisha Gopalan.
Among the reactions from Chinese officials and state media to Trump’s victory, a call for stability is a resounding theme, as well as the importance of the economic ties between the nations.
China’s vice minister of public security, Meng Hongwei, is the first Chinese citizen to serve as president of the executive committee of the agency that facilitates global police cooperation. The appointment raised worries with Amnesty International about Interpol’s influence on the pursuit of Chinese refugees and dissidents abroad.
The next American president has called climate change a Chinese deception and a “hoax,” and global leaders are wondering if he will pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement made last year. China’s top climate negotiator, warning Trump days before his election victory, said that “a wise political leader should take policy stances that conform with global trends.”
Alibaba enlisted top celebrities, including the Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson, to drum up attention on its 24-hour shopping event of November 11, which may give clues about the health of the Chinese economy.
The reasons for the replacement of Lou Jiwei as China's finance minister may remain mysterious, but lower-level officials who are frustrated by contradictory edicts from China's central government about managing economic growth and problems may be relieved to have one rule maker out of their way, writes Russell Leigh Moses.
From 1990 to 2005, Leroy Chiao took four flights into space as a NASA astronaut, spending hundreds of days off the Earth and dozens of hours strolling among the stars. Since then he has been taking on more terrestrial pursuits, including the launch of a business last year that he hopes can help build cultural bridges between China and the United States.