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China Launches Digital Yuan App in Pilot Cities Nationwide
A digital yuan app has now launched in 12 cities and regions, including Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, and Zhangjiakou — another hosting location of the Beijing Olympics next month. Caixin reports that the app allows users to choose between nine partner banks, including Tencent’s WeBank and Ant Group’s MYbank, and transfer funds and make online and offline payments.
Hong Kong activist behind Tiananmen vigil sentenced to 15 months prison
Facebook “incitement” is now a crime in Hong Kong: A 36-year-old barrister, Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤 Zōu Xìngtóng, Zau1 Hang6 Tung4), was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges relating to “social media posts titled ‘Lighting a candle is not a crime: Stand one’s ground,’ and her Ming Pao newspaper article titled ‘Candlelight carries the weight of conscience and the Hong Kong people persevere in telling the truth.’”
Hollywood’s Ability to Influence Its China Box Office Destiny Has Never Been Weaker
China is a “totally unreliable…black hole” for Hollywood, according to one film industry insider interviewed by Variety. “And with U.S. films accounting for less than 12% of China’s total box office in 2021, Hollywood has never had less leverage.”
GM dethroned by Toyota after almost century-long run as top selling carmaker in the U.S.
Toyota has dethroned General Motors as America’s top-selling automaker in 2021, marking the first time since 1931 that the Detroit automaker wasn’t the best-sel
Kindle’s China future in doubt after disappearing from online shelves
Since Kindle began shipping in China nearly nine years ago, the e-book giant has garnered a loyal following in the country. The journey has never been easy, thanks to regulatory hurdles around digital content. Recently, there are signs that the Amazon-owned e-book business is scaling back some of its operations in China. Kindle’s official store […]
2022年，互联网没人惦记“当第一”
Nobody wants to be the number one internet company anymore, according to The Paper, which says the golden age of startups ended in 2018. China’s top 10 internet giants lost about $800 billion in market value in 2021, but leading an electric car or battery makers is the new hot thing.
Amazon.com (AMZN) Plays Down Reports It’s Pulling Kindle From China
Amazon.com Inc. brushed off media speculation that it was suspending sales of its Kindle e-reader in China, after some of its signature product’s models went out of stock on Chinese platforms.
China’s New AI Governance Initiatives Shouldn’t Be Ignored
A guide to China’s emerging AI governance: At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Matt Sheehan writes that the recent rules from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) (covered on SupChina here) are just one of “three different approaches to AI governance, each championed by a different branch of the Chinese bureaucracy, and each at a different level of maturity.” The others, led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), will likely end up complementing rather than overtaking CAC’s approach, but bureaucratic competition over the coming years will determine the details.
World’s Biggest Free Trade Pact to Kick Off Tomorrow
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest free trade agreement, signed by 15 Asian-Pacific states in November last year, came into effect on Saturday. See on SupChina last year: How the China-friendly RCEP arose after the U.S. abandoned TPP.
Hong Kong's Citizen News says closure triggered by Stand News collapse
Hong Kong independent online publication Citizen News said on Monday its decision to shut down was triggered by the closure of a pro-democracy media outlet last week following a police raid and seven arrests.
It’s China vs. Walmart, Latest Western Brand Entangled in Human Rights Dispute
American companies navigate Xinjiang sensitivities: Walmart was warned to “respect the feelings of the Chinese people” by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection after the company’s Sam’s Club chain stopped selling items from Xinjiang. The incident comes barely a week after Chinese officials “chastised Intel for asking suppliers not to source goods from the region,” and could presage further controversy for international companies during the Beijing Olympics next month, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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How investment in art sets Hangzhou apart from other cities in China
Hangzhou aims to become China’s new art hub: The South China Morning Post says “Hangzhou’s expanding art infrastructure and laid-back ethos have created a vibrant scene.” The lakeside city is a couple of hours from Shanghai by high-speed train, but the city has a much more leisurely pace, despite being famous as the home of Alibaba.
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
Chinese data surveillance and harassment of critics on foreign social media: The Washington Post and the New York Times both have new investigations into how Chinese security authorities are more closely monitoring Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms that are censored in China. “China is turning a major part of its internal Internet-data surveillance network outward, mining Western social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on foreign targets,” the Washington Post says. “With growing frequency, the authorities are harassing critics both inside and outside China, as well as threatening relatives, in an effort to get them to delete content deemed criminal,” the NYT reports.
