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The U.S. and China are on a lose-lose course
The U.S.-China relationship has survived obstacles and setbacks in the past. But today, amid high-level calls for both an economic and cultural decoupling, we have to consider what a rupture would look like — and its catastrophic consequences.
Editor’s note for Monday, August 3, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Trump gives TikTok 45 days to sell U.S. operations
After a few days of indecision, President Trump has settled on an ultimatum for TikTok: Either sell your U.S. operations to an American company in 45 days, or be banned. Microsoft is in negotiations to buy it, but there are many uncertainties.
Coal is back in China
After several years of restricting new coal-burning power plants, China is building them again despite existing excess capacity.
Zoom to stop direct sales in China
In an apparent attempt to avoid further scrutiny in the U.S., Zoom is essentially pulling out of China, and will only offer its services there in partnership with local Chinese companies.
Chinese social media users call ByteDance founder unpatriotic and weak in the face of U.S. moves against TikTok
While the news about Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok was a huge relief for its American users, it was received poorly on the Chinese internet, with many calling Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder and CEO, a “spineless traitor” and a “despicable coward,” among other insults.
After TikTok, what happens to internet freedom?
The meaning of internet freedom is changing. Under Trump, the U.S. seems set to tell China it was right to distrust foreign-owned social media apps.
The emperor who rules the emperors
The Jade Emperor is the head honcho of the divine Daoist pantheon, the mysterious “Lord of Heaven,” a vague guiding entity awarding dynasties with the “Mandate of Heaven.” But he has also been mocked through the ages, his history a strange combination of majesty and comedy, pathos and bathos, inscrutable as the bureaucracy he heads and just as inept.
Physical and mental abuse in Chinese figure skating
Singaporean skater Jessica Shuran Yu recently detailed the abuse she suffered during training at the hands of overzealous Chinese coaches. Her experience, sadly, is not unique.
15 million former Ofo users still waiting for their deposit refunds
Once the world’s biggest bike-sharing company, Ofo remains buried under lawsuits and debt.
Editor’s note for Friday, July 31, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Hong Kong postpones Legislative Council election, citing COVID-19
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she would postpone the upcoming Legislative Council election from September 6 this year to September 5, 2021. It was the latest blow to the pro-democracy opposition, who had hoped to win big in that election.
Will Trump order Chinese owner to sell TikTok?
Will Washington force Chinese internet giant ByteDance to sell its globally popular video app TikTok to a U.S. company?
U.S. sanctions the biggest ‘company’ in Xinjiang
The U.S. has announced new sanctions on the biggest state-owned entity in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where a million or more Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been subject to extra-legal detentions.
China’s own Big Tech antitrust probe
Within days of U.S. Congress questioning American Big Tech companies in an antitrust probe, it looks like China may investigate its own tech giants for anticompetitive practices.
China uses drones to attack locust swarms
A broad swath of countries from Kenya to Pakistan to Laos has been dealing with huge swarms of locusts this summer. China is the latest victim.
After public outcry, Zhejiang University expels student convicted of rape
Zhejiang University (ZJU), one of the most prestigious institutions in China, has expelled a male student who was allowed to remain enrolled despite a conviction for sexually assaulting a woman.
Shanghai’s history of race, privilege, and escapism explored in ‘Champions Day’
James Carter examines Shanghai’s colonial past through the lens of a single event — its Champions’ Stakes horse race — and in doing so, paints a rich picture of the politics that enabled Shanghai’s so-called “golden era,” as well as the racial dynamics and social rituals that shaped daily life.
Editor’s note for Thursday, July 30, 2020
A note from today’s editor of the The China Project Access newsletter.
Hong Kong disqualifies a dozen pro-democracy candidates from running for office
Today, a dozen pro-democracy candidates were disqualified from Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong. The government made clear that dissent to the national security law that Beijing imposed on July 1 is now a disqualifying condition.
