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Huiyuan, China’s biggest fruit juice company, delisted
Huiyuan Juice, famous for its advertising slogan “Only with Huiyuan is it the real Lunar New Year,” won’t have a happy new year in 2021: The company was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Market on January 18.
Beijing promotes vaccine nationalism and new COVID-19 conspiracies
Chinese state media, and even some of China’s top scientists, are promoting messages to undermine confidence in non-Chinese vaccines. At the same time, Beijing is again spreading conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
Didi is rolling out electric cars custom-made for ride-hailing
Electric and autonomous cars, ride-hailing, and boatloads of venture capital: The new car from BYD and Didi is associated with all the right buzzwords.
China’s new COVID-19 travel rules to spoil Spring Festival for millions of migrant workers
New COVID-19 restrictions are going to make for a miserable Lunar Year for many of China’s poors. For some, it will be the second consecutive year without a return home for the traditional family celebration.
U.S.-China: An argument for renewed engagement
With Trump gone, the U.S. now has an opportunity to engage constructively with China’s future leaders, if not its current ones. Track II diplomacy is vital in restoring normalcy to bilateral relations between these superpowers.
Editor’s note for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Beijing places sanctions on Trump administration officials
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced sanctions on 28 Trump administration officials today, a clear sign that Beijing is not interested in a reset with the new U.S. government.
Chinese social media reactions to Joe Biden’s inauguration
Social media users around the world reacted today to the end of the Trump presidency, and China was no exception. Weibo users cracked jokes, remarked on Biden’s tough job ahead, and expressed skepticism that anything would change in U.S.-China relations.
Dilemmas at the start of a new administration — in 2021 America and 1801 China
William Rowe’s “Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth Century China,” about the transition from the Qianlong Emperor to the Jiaqing Emperor, is particularly meaningful to read on this day, as America faces a strange mix of optimism and dread, the end of one administration and the start of another.
McCafé wants a slice of Starbucks’ China pie
McCafé, the McDonald’s offshoot that offers premium coffees at less-than-premium prices, is going head to head with Starbucks in China this year.
China bids on biotech to cure cancer and move beyond reliance on foreign drugs
Drugs made in China might provide the world’s next cancer treatment breakthroughs, powered by returnee scientists, government incentives, and floods of venture capital.
Deng Xiaoping’s secret ‘Southern Tour’ and its enduring legacy
With hardline conservatives breathing down his neck in Beijing, Deng Xiaoping made an unannounced trip south in January 1992 to visit his reform-minded friends, a calculated move without any guarantee of success. But his gambit paid off in a big way.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, January 19, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
U.S. says China is committing ‘genocide’ against Uyghurs
The declaration by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was undermined by his tweet, a few hours earlier, condemning “multiculturalism” in the U.S.
Surrogacy row in China: An actress and two abandoned babies
The Chinese internet has been consumed today with allegations that a famous actress abandoned two babies born by American surrogate mothers.
With the U.S. in its sights, China moves to restrict rare earths exports. Could cobalt be next?
New rules from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology make clear that Beijing aims to tighten export controls on rare earth metals, a group of minerals essential to manufacturing electronics. Meanwhile, China has been on a cobalt buying binge, particularly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ghosts of Communists past
Litmus tests for U.S. citizenship based on Communist Party membership are a throwback to the 1950s. They still don’t make sense.
U.S.-China cooperation on climate change: Q&A with Huang Zhong and Cary Krosinsky
Where do the U.S. and China currently stand on climate issues, and how might the incoming Joe Biden administration improve cooperation in this area?
Hell’s bittersweet end: Meng Po, goddess of forgetfulness
Meng Po, who resides in the underworld, could remove all the bad memories a soul might possess, giving little thought to skills wiped or knowledge of loved ones lost forever.
FC, United, City, etc.: Chinese soccer’s major rebranding
Guangzhou Evergrande will be known as Guangzhou FC starting next season, while crosstown rivals R&F have adopted the City moniker. All told, 58 Chinese soccer clubs will change their names from their corporate monikers.
