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Australia plans major overhaul of defenses as China rises
A government-commissioned report says Australia needs to spend more on defense and develop the ability to strike longer-range targets as China’s military buildup challenges regional security. The Defense Strategic Review supports the AUKUS partnership among Australia, the United States and Britain and recommends deepening relationships with other key partners. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the review was meant to assess whether Australia is able and prepared to defend itself. The review says China’s ambitious military buildup is occurring without transparency or reassurance of its intentions. One of the immediate steps taken under the new priorities was to reduce an order for infantry vehicles. The money saved will be diverted to getting HIMARS rocket systems.
Australia Plans Major Changes to Military Amid China’s Build-up
A major government review of Australia’s military readiness has recommended sweeping changes to the defense forces, as the country adjusts to a rapidly changing strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific region.
Asia Earnings Week Ahead: SK Hynix, Kweichow Moutai, BYD
Asia’s earning season has kicked off this month and analysts are expecting the downward trend in earnings revisions has finally come to an end following the robust revival in China. Gareth Allan reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
Enhancing the Corporate Social Responsibility, Chery officially launched the Green Public Welfare Fund Plan
Doha: Chery announced the creation of a Green Public Welfare Fund Plan at the Shanghai Auto Show on April 18th. Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery Auto...
‘It’s already the epilogue’: censorship, cost-cutting hit China’s media industry
At the peak of the Chinese tech boom around 2016, the biggest companies in the sector began to aggressively build up media portfolios in the news and entertainment sectors, but they are now beating a hasty retreat.
China urged to step up laser weapons development to keep pace with US
The country risks falling behind its major strategic rival, defence analysts say.
Baltics condemn China envoy's stance on ex-Soviet nations
The three Baltic states have strongly condemned comments by China’s envoy to France who appeared to say in a recent French television interview that the former Soviet republics aren't sovereign nations. The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in separate announcements late Saturday deemed statements by Chinese Ambassador Lu Shaye as unacceptable. The diplomat was asked in a recent interview with French news channel LCI if he thought that the Crimean Peninsula belongs to Ukraine. He replied by drawing a parallel to ex-Soviet nations and said that there is no international agreement to “solidify their status as a sovereign country.”
Paris, Kyiv, Baltic states dismayed after China envoy questions Ukraine sovereignty
Ex-USSR countries don't have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their sovereign status, China's ambassador in Paris said.
China’s Reincarnation Monopoly Has a Mongolia Problem
The twin lines of the Dalai Lama and the Jebtsundamba Khutughtu have shaped geopolitics for centuries.
Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.
Australia seeks to rebalance ties with China after three-year freeze
Foreign minister says Canberra must 'lower the heat' on potential Taiwan conflict
BYD $11,450 EV Hatchback Set to Reshape China’s First-Car Market
A new electric hatchback starting from just 78,800 yuan ($11,450) from BYD Co. is set to intensify competition in China’s already crowded entry-level car market.
Why the West needs China’s EV prowess as it moves to build supply-chain capacity
Will the global supply chain that originates from China have to be rewired, as rising protectionism in America targets most things made in China amid deteriorating US-China relations?
Baidu teams with Chinese chip startup on smart car tech
Tech giant will integrate driver assist solutions into Black Sesame's products
What's Going On With Alibaba Shares - Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR (NYSE: BABA) shares are trading lower by 2.01% to $88.92 Friday afternoon. Shares of Chinese companies are trading lower amid a fall in Asia-Pacific stocks. Weakness may be driven by tensions over Taiwan, recent U.S. earnings and Japan inflation data.
Alibaba, BYD dent Hong Kong stocks as mainland funds seen exiting while SMIC tumbles on weak chip outlook
Hong Kong stocks fell after mainland Chinese investors withdrew their money from the market by the most in nine weeks. Big tech leaders and electric-vehicle (EV) makers paced losses amid concerns about intensifying competition, while SMIC sank on chip industry outlook. The Hang Seng Index lost 1.6 per cent to 20,075.73 at the close of Friday trading, bringing the pullback this week to 1.8 per cent. The Tech Index slumped 3.1 per cent while the Shanghai Composite Index declined 2 per cent. China'
ByteDance, Alibaba and Bilibili titles among 86 new game licences approved by China regulator in April
Beijing approved 86 new games in April, including titles by internet giants ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding and Bilibili, as the world's largest video gaming market continues to recover from a long winter. The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the agency responsible for licensing video games in China, published its latest list of approvals on Thursday. The figure of 86 is roughly the same as the number of new licences given out in each of the first three months of 2023, in a
Alibaba Scores More Wins After China Doles Out Gaming Licenses
China's gaming regulator on Thursday granted publishing licenses to 86 domestic online games. Gaming titles belonging to Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), Baidu, Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), and TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd made it to the list, Reuters reports. Also Read: Activision Blizzard Fails To Renew Gaming License With NetEase; Explores Other Alternatives To Tap Biggest Gaming Market China's videogame regulator has started granting publishing licenses to new titles from April 2022, ending
Rural ecommerce: In China, farmers find new ways to grow
Farm-to-kitchen ecommerce companies are changing the lives of China’s farmers and urban consumers. For a country whose rural sector is dominated by small farms with minimal technology, the use of digital technology is spurring a revolution.
Justice during imperial China: Reexamining the ‘Lady Hughes’ affair of 1784
A British gunner’s execution for the “accidental” murder of two Chinese sailors led to Western powers seeking extraterritoriality from the Qing. That’s the popular reading of the Lady Hughes affair, anyway — a narrative that is misleading and wrong.
Markets shiver as big Chinese state-owned firms defaulting on their debts
Large state-owned firms have been defaulting on their bonds, spooking Chinese investors.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, November 24, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
China’s poorest counties are no longer officially in extreme poverty. What does this mean?
Virtually all residents in rural China now have incomes above the government’s absolute poverty standard. This does not mean poverty has been eradicated, but it does mean “improved livelihoods for almost 100 million people over the last eight years.”
China launches initiative to tackle senior tech gap as everything moves digital
The guidelines specify a two-pronged approach, aiming to both preserve non-digital services to make sure seniors’ basic needs are properly met and encourage the invention of new technologies and devices tailored for older adults.
Chinese teams off to strong start in AFC Champions League
China’s four teams in the 39th edition of Asia’s premier soccer tournament are off to a good start. The AFC Champions League was postponed in March due to COVID-19, and is now proceeding under a unique format, with all games played in Qatar.
Editor’s note for Monday, November 23, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Biden chooses diplomatic cabinet nominees, but Trump’s not done with disruptive attacks on China
Joe Biden has nominated a set of Obama administration alumni to serve in key foreign policy posts, including Antony Blinken as Secretary of State. What might the selections mean for U.S.-China relations?
IPOs and PPE: How China’s rich got a whole lot richer in 2020
2020 saw an extraordinary amount of wealth generated in China with stock market listings, rising share prices, and pandemic-related market opportunities creating scores of new millionaires and billionaires.
Chinese county sticks to dog-walking ban despite outcry
A county in southwest China has pressed ahead with a dog-walking ban aimed at stopping pet-related injuries and complaints despite widespread criticism that the policy is unnecessarily extreme and badly conceived.
New China, new art? Xu Beihong’s realist revolution
Xu Beihong was a modernizer, believing that artists needed to have ideas and stop relying on imitation. But was Xu as guilty of imitation — of conservative Western art, in his case — as the Chinese artists he criticized?
Editor’s note for Friday, November 20, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
China is ‘actively considering’ joining CPTPP, the trade deal that Trump rejected
Only five days after signing RCEP, one major Asian trade deal, China says that it is considering joining another: the CPTPP, a renegotiated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump pulled the U.S. out of in 2017.
Airbnb’s China problems — the soft spot in the vacation rental giant’s IPO prospectus
Airbnb is going to list on Nasdaq. Here’s what you need to know about its exposure to China.
Pianist Lang Lang shows off pregnant wife’s small waist, angering China’s body positivity movement
A pregnant woman maintaining a slender figure is not one of the aspects of motherhood that deserves celebration — this is a lesson that world-famous pianist Láng Lǎng 郎朗 has recently learned.
How Chinese-American activism helped Georgia turn blue
Turnout among Asian Americans in Georgia was way up in the 2020 presidential election, meaning the Democratic-leaning demographic contributed to Biden’s win in the state. Chinese-American activists are now mobilizing again ahead of the January Senate runoffs.
Hong Kong’s homeless react to ‘I’m Living It,’ a film about HK’s homeless
Last month, the charity MercyHK invited Hong Kong’s homeless to a screening of the award-winning movie “I’m Living It,” which dramatizes the plight of the Hong Kong’s down and out. For many of the attendees, the film was a long-overdue respite from the outside world, albeit a tragic and melodramatic one.
Our future tech dystopia begins in China
Kai Strittmatter’s recent book, “We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State,” examines how the Chinese government is using technology to censor, surveil, and control its population. Does it read like a warning, or merely a glimpse of what awaits us all?
Editor’s note for Thursday, November 19, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.