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Chinese money is pouring into British universities
Money from Chinese students makes up about 6% of British universities’ total income, or $3.3 billion of the $7.7 billion in annual student tuition fees, with more than 140,000 students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses and a 50% increase from five years ago.
Have Chinese Spies Infiltrated American Campuses?
The New Yorker takes a deep dive on the investigation of Franklin Tao (Táo Fēng 陶丰), a chemical engineer and associate professor at the University of Kansas, and how the now-shuttered China Initiative struggled to balance the often murky distinctions between scientific research, intellectual espionage, and systemic discrimination.
Last week on SupChina: The China Initiative is dead, but its repercussions live on.
The China Initiative is dead, but its repercussions live on – The China Project
The China Initiative is dead in name, but is it in reality? Advocates say that dismantling the problems behind the initiative will require more work.
Some Chinese are daring to criticise Russia
Nationalist trolls and a stifling state would rather they did not
Russia says China refuses to supply aircraft parts after sanctions
Boeing and Airbus won’t give Russia aircraft parts, says local media, after the two firms halted the supply of components to the nation amid Western sanctions over the war on Ukraine.
Soho China Soars on Plan to Sell Beijing, Shanghai Properties at Big Discount to Pay Off Debts
Shares in Soho China surged 21% after the high-end property developer said it will sell prime properties in Beijing and Shanghai at a 30% discount to repay its debts.
Hong Kong leader plans to reopen city only after controlling latest COVID outbreak
Meanwhile, Hong Kong hunkers down, after leader Carrie Lam said any plans to reopen the city will happen only after the government controls its deepening COVID outbreak.
Earlier on SupChina: Hong Kong intensifies COVID control measures amid Omicron wave, pushing residents to the brink.
China fights new COVID-19 spike with more selective approach
Omicron is pushing China to reconsider COVID zero, as authorities use less strict control measures, such as more selective lockdowns, to curb recent COVID outbreaks.
However, the chances for a working homegrown mRNA vaccine in the near future are dim, after its front-runner failed to reach the market last year and is now showing disappointing results against the Omicron variant.Earlier on SupChina: Is China shifting from COVID zero to coexistence?
Xiaomi, Oppo in Talks With India Firms to Make Phones for Export
China’s smartphone makers aren’t giving up on India, with Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo in talks with Indian firms to produce new phones from their plants as early as this year, a confident move toward transforming the country into an electronics hub.
经济日报：退税减税二点五万亿元意味着什么
China will issue tax rebates and refunds of about 2.5 trillion yuan ($395.6 billion) this year. The government says many of the recipients will be “small, medium and micro enterprises.”
Union matchmakers a turn-off, say Chinese web users as birth rate debate heats up
No trade union matchmaking, say appalled Chinese netizens, after government officials proposed the idea at a brainstorming session aimed to boost China’s plunging birth rate. The plan, which called for “marriage committees” within trade unions to provide matchmaking services, sparked a wave of public backlash on Weibo.
京东率先建成中国首个“零碳”物流园区
Ecommerce giant JD.com opens a carbon-neutral hub: JD’s Xi’an operation — which uses and stores solar power, and offsets emissions through other means — has become “the first zero-carbon logistics park in China,” according to two different government certifications.
Opinion: What keeps China from stopping Russia's war
China is “out of its depth” on the war in Ukraine, writes the scholar Ian Johnson, and Xi’s “myopic focus on domestic concerns” will likely keep China on a neutral course while still showing sympathies for Russia.
China to provide 5 mln yuan worth of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine
The Red Cross Society of China will send $791,540 worth of emergency aid to Ukraine, consisting of daily necessities, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhào Lìjiān 赵立坚 said on Wednesday. Stranded Ukrainians are running out of electricity, heat, food, and drinking water after more than a week of sustained attacks from the Russian military.
Zhang Wenhong: How to Beat Covid-19 With a Smarter Zero-Covid Policy
Another signal that China may readjust COVID zero: Zhāng Wénhóng 张文宏, a Chinese doctor and Beijing’s trusted voice on COVID-19, says that the pandemic has reached a “new stage” and that China must “avoid a single approach aimed at eliminating all cases at the cost of normal life.”
Meanwhile, Shanghai is testing tens of thousands of people, delaying events, and shutting some public venues amid a rising wave of local symptomless cases.
Chinese companies that aid Russia could face U.S. repercussions, commerce secretary warns.
Chinese companies may be subject to secondary sanctions if they defy U.S. restrictions against exporting to Russia, said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to the New York Times.
Global China Databases
Five databases tracking Chinese overseas development funding are available through the Global China Initiative (GCI) at the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, to “provide transparent data to aid the public…in analyzing and holding accountable Chinese overseas loan commitments and investments,” writes Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses, the database manager for the initiative.
UN rights chief to visit Xinjiang as groups press for report
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet plans to visit China in May, with a stop in Xinjiang, after she told the Human Rights Council that the Chinese government had granted approval. The breakthrough visit comes after a series of delays to enter the nation and mounting pressure from rights groups to publish a report into alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
China “welcomes” the visit, though freedom of expression is protected in China but “can never be a pretext to make anyone above the law,” said Chén Xù 陈旭, China’s ambassador to the UN, after Bachelet raised concern about the treatment of critics in the nation.