A murder case was cited by the Hong Kong government for the extradition bill that sparked paralyzing protests over the past half year. But now the case has taken on a life of its own, becoming a major issue in the upcoming January 2020 elections in Taiwan. How might this end?
On November 6, the Chief Justice and President of Chinaโs Supreme Peopleโs Court, Zhลu Qiรกng ๅจๅผบ, gave a speech at Tsinghua University that revealed a surprising statistic: 74 percent of divorces in China are initiated by women. Zhou did not elaborate on when the data was collected, but news disrupted long-held assumptions that Chinese women tend to endure unhappy marriages due to societal expectations and economic pressures.
When Jair Bolsonaro was running for President of Brazil last year, a favorite line of his was, โThe Chinese are not buying in Brazil. They are buying Brazil.โ But now, Bolsonaro has backtracked on his harsh rhetoric about China, and instead welcomed the Chinese leader Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ to the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, last week.
โThe mood music is pretty good,โ White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said last week, though President Trump "hasnโt signed off on a commitment" for a trade deal with China. However, โtariffs are emerging as the main stumbling blockโ in negotiations, according to the Wall Street Journal, which would seem to be a problem when Tariff Man Trump is the one who has to sign the deal. The ultimate amount of agricultural purchases are also still undetermined, according to Bloomberg, despite Trumpโs claim on October 11 that he had secured purchases of โ40 to 50 billion dollarsโ worth of agricultural products.โ
Over the weekend, the New York Times published one of the most significant document leaks from the Chinese government in decades. The 400-plus pages of private speeches from high-level officials, internal memos, and records of investigations and disciplinary action all concern the governmentโs โPeopleโs war on terrorismโ in Xinjiang and the extralegal mass detention atrocity that it has led to.
The escalating tit-for-tat trade war between the United States and China has been shaking up supply chains all over the world. For companies that are...
This weekโs Sinica Podcast is now live. Fuchsia Dunlop, the preeminent writer on Chinese cuisine in the English language, has published a completely revised and...
Itโs nearly impossible to talk about the current climate of cross-border business transactions between China and the U.S. without mentioning the Committee on Foreign Investment...
"We're not going to be able to address global threats like climate change and even collaborate on artificial intelligence if we don't have a certain level of cooperation between the U.S. and China," presidential candidate Andrew Yang told The China Project before a fundraising event in New York City on November 10. "Right now, unfortunately, our relationship is trending in the wrong direction...towards a new Cold War." Yang says that a part of this is a "perception that America sometimes falls into that the world is a zero sum game, and if another country is benefitting, that's somehow bad for the United States." At the same time, Chinese IP piracy and human rights issues need to be addressed, he adds.