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Israel-Gaza war: China stands with Russia to help cool crisis, envoy says
On first leg of his mediation trip to the region, Beijing’s Middle East envoy Zhai Jun meets Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov in Doha. Zhai also says Beijing ready to work with Qatar and play ‘a constructive role’ in easing tension.
Russia Pushes Security Talks With North Korea, China
Moscow’s top diplomat, on a Pyongyang trip, advocated for the three-way talks to counter the U.S. threat.
In Depth: The Struggle Facing Big-Box Supermarkets in China
Carrefour’s shrinking presence is emblematic of broader gloom that has befallen the country’s supermarket operators that are competing with e-commerce platforms and smaller stores
Wang Yi angers Chinese netizens by touting Belt and Road abroad
Big spending questioned as people back home struggle
Taliban plans to join China's Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese companies already operating in resource-rich Afghanistan
Pentagon accuses China of accelerating nuclear build-up
New report to Congress finds Beijing on track to exceed previous projections
Reporter wins support after Nebraska governor dismissed story because the journalist is Chinese
Advocates and Nebraska lawmakers are defending a reporter after Gov. Jim Pillen said her story about environmental concerns at his farms wasn’t worth discussing because the reporter was from “communist China.”
Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal
Move would come in wake of tougher US controls on Chinese access to high-performance chips
Country Garden, Facing Debt Deadline, Says Executives Have Not Left China
The company, one of China’s biggest property developers, took the unusual step of stating that the company’s founder and its chairwoman were “working normally.”
China’s Military Is Making Risky Moves and Adding Nuclear Warheads, U.S. Says
The Defense Department said in a report to Congress that Beijing’s “coercive” air intercepts were aimed at intimidating U.S. forces in the region.
China's Country Garden bondholders seek talks after missed payment -sources
Country Garden bondholders are seeking urgent talks with the troubled property developer after it missed a $15 million coupon repayment, putting it at risk of default, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
China is building up its nuclear weapons arsenal faster than previous projections, a US report says
A Pentagon report on China’s military power says Beijing is on track to significantly increase its nuclear weapons arsenal by 2030 and is “almost certainly” learning lessons from Russia’s war in Ukraine about what a conflict over Taiwan might look like.
China stationed up to 6 warships in Middle East over the past week: reports
The arrival of a replacement escort group in the Gulf region meant two advanced 052D destroyers have been stationed there at a time of heightened tensions.
Philips CEO: China business, supply chain undergoing major changes
Making more products for China locally and buying chips from several suppliers are just two of the supply chain changes Dutch healthcare technology firm Philips is making due to rising trade tensions, its CEO Roy Jakobs told Reuters.
After Dog Mauls Child, Chinese Cities Push to Tighten Pet Laws
Earlier this week, footage surfaced online showing a black rottweiler assaulting a young child and her mother.
Chinese scientists are hunting for the next viral disease threat to humans
Researchers have conducted a massive sampling survey of bats, rodents and shrews to identify animal-to-human transmission risks.
Italy's DR Automobiles faces antitrust probe over Chinese origins of its cars
Italian carmaker DR Automobiles is facing an antitrust investigation for allegedly misleading consumers over where its DR and EVO-branded vehicles are made, the Italian competition authority (AGCM) said on Thursday.
Taliban says plans to formally join China's Belt and Road Initiative
The Taliban administration wants to formally join Chinese President Xi Jinping's huge 'Belt and Road' infrastructure initiative and will send a technical team to China for talks, Afghanistan's acting commerce minister said on Thursday.
‘Anticolonial friendships’: How anthropologists study Uyghurs in contemporary China
Anthropology cannot “save” the people anthropologists care about. When anthropologists do speak, it should be alongside the voices of the disenfranchised, speaking as listeners and translators.
Liu Xiaobo and his ‘monstrous crimes’
Only twice has a Nobel peace laureate died in state custody. The first time was in 1938, when German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died in Berlin of mistreatment at the hands of his Nazi captors. The second was in the summer of 2017.
Hong Kong murders prompt discussion over reporting on LGBTQ issues
In Hong Kong, where violent acts are rare, a recent double murder has sent major shockwaves among locals and officials. It has also prompted media criticism among some in the LGBTQ community.
Blinken, Xi, Li, and much more
News briefing for June 20, 2023.
Editor’s note for June 20, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi met with Blinken, Li courts German businesses, Modi to visit the U.S.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing yesterday, in a bid to stabilize ties between the two superpowers. Meanwhile, China’s No. 2 official is in Berlin on a trip aimed at smoothing things over with Europe’s economic powerhouse.
China now has a lot more batteries than electric vehicles
China is still producing the world’s best batteries, but a glut of low-quality EV batteries is crowding out more advanced tech.
Laurent Hou offers an offbeat look at Beijing
“Although central Beijing is already overphotographed, this project brings a different vision,” says Hou.
With caution, Honduras begins its diplomatic relationship with Beijing
In March, Honduras switched its diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing, a decision that President Xiomara Castro’s administration said was purely pragmatic. For China, of course, establishing diplomatic ties wasn’t just a way to get easier access to Honduran coffee, bananas, and seafood.
Women on Xiaohongshu don’t want kids. They want this monkey plushie from IKEA.
A stuffed ape is currently the most popular toy in China. Those who make posts about it on social media are making jabs — self-aware and humorous — at the government’s request for young adults to have more children.
‘Swagger around town’ — Phrase of the Week
A Chinese executive is sacked after being caught on camera blatantly having an affair with a colleague.
Editor’s note for June 16, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Messi madness grips Beijing
Central Beijing ground to a halt yesterday ahead of Argentina’s friendly against Australia. There was only one man everyone wanted to see.
Parsing out China’s political economy
Keyu Jin, an associate professor of economics at LSE, talks about the unique Chinese political economy, emphasizing both its successes to date and how it must change to meet the challenges to come.
Editor’s note for June 15, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
A Uyghur family fled and Beijing followed, pushing for prison and extradition in Turkey and Morocco
The precarious life of a Uyghur family in exile.
U.S. semiconductor export controls might actually give China the edge
China’s semiconductor wafer fabrication companies are way behind their Western and Japanese peers. But new multilateral export controls targeting China may actually push Chinese firms to innovate their way into the big league.
China’s war on drugs: From incarceration to rehabilitation
In the 1990s, China’s inability to contain its relatively modest drug epidemic put it on the same road as America’s failed war on drugs. But then, the number of new users in China began to drop dramatically…
What an 18th-century sorcery scare tells us about imperial China
Hysteria broke out midway through the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, as people feared that sorcerers were clipping off the ends of men’s queues and stealing their souls. Philip A. Kuhn’s landmark study on this episode illuminated not just a campaign against sorcery, but the inner workings of the Qing state.
