Why is state media praising Elon Musk for ventilator donations?
On March 6, Elon Musk tweeted: “The coronavirus panic is dumb,” and he has continued to make public statements skeptical of social distancing, which most...
Caroline Stetson
Caroline is a New York-based writer who recently graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in Mandarin Chinese and the history of U.S.-China relations.
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User data stolen from Weibo, prompting Chinese regulatory probe
The personal data of 538 million users of China’s Twitter-like social media platform Weibo is apparently for sale online (in Chinese). The price tag for...
A dismal future for NIO, once the darling of China’s electric vehicle market?
NIO, one of China’s leading electric vehicle companies, is in serious trouble. Its shares plummeted by 25% from opening price by Wednesday midday after the...
Chinese state media focus on U.S. woes as domestic economy tanks
It should come as no surprise that China’s economy is expected to tank in the first quarter of 2020. Goldman Sachs Group has changed China’s...
Ecommerce livestreaming booms in the time of quarantine
The coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to adopt new tactics to reach consumers staying at home, including selling on third-party platforms and boosting livestream marketing...
Pinduoduo joins remote work tool boom
Pinduoduo, a Chinese ecommerce platform where users can participate in group-buying deals, released its own remote working tool, Knock, on Monday. Pinduoduo joins a host...
Blacklisted firm approved to purchase U.S. medical devices
The partially state-owned artificial intelligence and voice recognition firm iFlyTek is in the process of purchasing medical devices from the United States, the company announced (in Chinese)...
China speeds up 5G rollout and makes inroads into Europe
China appears to be accelerating 5G infrastructure development as the country seeks to climb out from the COVID-19 slump. According to telecom operators cited by...
Chinese companies unable to reopen due to the coronavirus
Aside from workers who cannot get back to work and jammed-up logistics networks, a major obstacle for businesses reopening amid the COVID-19 breakout is the...
Xiaomi launches high-end phone, asks for 5 billion yuan loan
Chinese mobile phone wunderkind Xiaomi launched the new Mi 10 series via livestream on Thursday. The Mi 10 series phones will support wireless 5G technology...