A university student in Shandong Province has been expelled from school after videos of him mercilessly torturing and murdering cats surfaced on the Chinese internet, causing an outpouring of anger and revulsion, as well as feverish calls for stricter laws against animal cruelty.
According to state news agency Xinhua, since April 4, a total of 4,553 citizens of African countries in Guangzhou have been tested for COVID-19 under local government orders. As of April 13, 111 of them have tested positive for the virus, of which 19 were imported cases.
Hundreds of hotels in Wuhan have teamed up on an open letter calling on the local government to issue financial assistance after they provided free accommodation for medical workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Haidilao, a popular Chinese hotpot chain known for its exceptional customer service, has drawn a great deal of attention and controversy after complaints about price increases surfaced on Chinese media. This happened as it reopened some of its stores last week following weeks of closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The resistance to the price hikes has been so fierce that the company apologized to its customers on April 10, saying that it had lowered the prices for food back to where they were before the outbreak.
When Thai actor Vachirawit Chivaaree retweeted a photo of Hong Kong last week, he didn’t intend to set off a Thai-China political dispute. But what happened next was one part dystopian sci-fi, and one part a regular occurrence in the age of Chinese nationalist trolls: They attacked. He apologized. And a bizarre sequence of events happened.
While the full economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak on China’s economy is still uncertain, popular business writer Wu Xiaobo detailed in a recent report that about 247,000 Chinese companies declared bankruptcy in the first two months of 2020.
Africans in Guangzhou face special scrutiny amid coronavirus-fueled xenophobia
Despite the overwhelmingly negative perception of Luckin Coffee among U.S. investors and policymakers, the company's fraud scandal didn’t seem to have an adverse impact on its business in China. Some proponents even came to Luckin’s defense, arguing that a Chinese company scamming American investors for the benefit of Chinese consumers was actually a “noble” idea.
While Chinese women have undeniably acquired greater decision-making power in both their households and the markets in the past decade, their improved economic status has done little to uproot the deeply ingrained sexism in Chinese society, where women are objectified and expected to conform to ultra-traditional gender roles. These regressive attitudes toward women are most clearly evident in Chinese advertising, which often perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes.