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Xi and Albanese meet in Beijing
Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met for the second time in Beijing today. It’s the strongest signal to date that ties between their two countries are improving after years of tensions.
‘Lived in frustration, and died in vain’ — Phrase of the Week
A new phrase describes the sentiment in China toward the sudden death of Li Keqiang.
China’s crackdown on data ensnares ‘foreign-related’ weather stations
China’s Ministry of State Security investigated 3,000 meteorological stations for sending weather data abroad, as the country tightens up on cross-border data flows and beefs up its anti-espionage efforts.
The Age of Not Obvious: Going back to China in September 2023
Like many visitors who have returned to China for the first time after the pandemic, Kevin Xu found a changed, more isolated country. But is it going backward or barreling into the future?
Why does Zelenskyy accept China’s ‘neutrality’?
Writing from Kyiv, Ukrainian Sinologist Vita Golod explains why her country’s president has not criticized China for its moral support of Russia after Putin invaded last year.
Chinese military leaders talk tough on U.S. and Taiwan but offer small olive branch
The annual Xiangshan security and military conference in Beijing runs from October 29 to October 31. China’s military representatives are talking tough on Taiwan but signaling willingness to resume exchanges with their American counterparts.
Island elegy: Coming to terms with Taiwan’s potential demise
An unwinnable war and unification by force may be coming to Taiwan. How are its people to process the prospect of national demise? Chinese history may offer some lessons.
Chinese ex-premier Li Keqiang dies of a heart attack at 68
The former senior official was well liked at home and abroad, but in the New Era of Xi Jinping, Li was never more than China’s No. 2.
‘Crispy college students’ — Phrase of the Week
A new phrase describes the high-pressure and unhealthy lifestyles of university students in China.
This week on TikTok: China on Israel and Palestine, young astronauts, and new conservation
Want more like this? Subscribe to The China Project’s official TikTok channel, The China Project, where Susan St.Denis explains complex topics about China clearly and simply in TikTok’s fast-evolving visual and verbal language.
China launches its youngest-ever astronauts into space
Three new astronauts are heading to China’s Tiangong space station, which is about to get even bigger in the coming years.
Lying flat in the West — Sang Ye’s interview with a hooker in search of a golden heart
How to get out of China is a question occupying the minds of the wealthy, the rebellious, and everyone in China who doesn’t like living in Xi Jinping’s New Era. But the desire to escape is not new, as we see in this oral history from the late 1980s by Sang Ye, translated and introduced by eminent Sinologist Geremie Barmé.
Angela Zhang on why the West should pay more attention to Chinese antitrust law
In this installment of China Book Chats, Christopher Marquis talks to Angela Zhang, author of ‘Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism,’ a book that delves into one of China’s underappreciated tools for countering Western sanctions: antitrust law.
China hosts separate phone calls with Israel and Palestine
Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterated China’s calls for a cease-fire and a “two-state solution” during separate talks with his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts.
Kidnappings in China, 100 years ago and now — Q&A with James Zimmerman
It’s becoming more and more difficult for investors, journalists, and scholars to get information about China. How does this affect doing business there? And what can we learn from the story of a hijacked train in Shandong in 1923?
China’s Belt and Road Forum begins in Beijing
Xi Jinping has so far met the leaders of Ethiopia, Serbia, Chile, and Kazakhstan, among others, in what Chinese state media has described as “the most important diplomatic event hosted by China this year.” But all eyes are on the arrival of a Taliban minister and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Andrew Cainey on ‘Xiconomics’ and strategies for foreign businesses
In a newly published book, Andrew Cainey, the founding director of the U.K. National Committee on China and a senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, delves into the complexities of China’s domestic economy and its implications for multinational corporations that seek to do business with China.
Man crashes car into Chinese consulate in San Francisco
Police shot and killed the driver, but no other injuries were reported, and official details of the investigation are sparse. But a man present at the scene said that the driver emerged from the crash yelling, “Where is the CCP?”
This week on TikTok: A week for space and music diplomacy
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Long prison sentence for book-loving Uyghur who tried to preserve history and culture for kids
In January 2018, China sentenced writer, critic, and educator Yalqun Rozi to 15 years in prison for “splittism” and “extremist ideas.”
