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Why On-Screen Portrayals of China’s Middle Class Fall Flat
After decades spent producing mindless, middling fare glorifying middle-class values, it’s time for China's film industry to take a more critical look.
Huawei exec’s lawsuit likely aims to affect extradition proceedings, legal experts say
The true value of a civil suit for Meng Wanzhou is its potential impact on her bid for freedom, say lawyers.
Behind Illicit Massage Parlors Lie a Vast Crime Network and Modern Indentured Servitude (Published 2019)
In a $3 billion-a-year industry, many women stay on as prostitutes in order to pay debts to smugglers, spa owners and lawyers.
He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims. (Published 2019)
China’s vast detention program for Muslims has required more and more police officers. And recruits are coming from the very ethnic groups that are being suppressed.
China Finalizes Rules for New Technology Exchange in Shanghai
China pushed through final regulations for a new stock-trading venue in Shanghai designed to encourage more technology companies to go public.
Li Xueqin, Key Historian in China’s Embrace of Antiquity, Dies at 85 (Published 2019)
Mr. Li walked a fine line between scholarship and serving the Communist Party as he sought the truth about his country’s distant past.
Baidu Audits Online Encyclopedia After Illegal Porn Links Found
The tech company says ‘lawbreakers’ redirected a school-related URL to a porn website.
China says ‘regrets’ WTO ruling in favor of US on subsidies - Taipei Times
China yesterday said that it “regrets” a WTO ruling in Washington’s favor over a dispute on Chinese subsidies to wheat and rice producers. The decision came as the world’s top two economies try to hammer out an agreement to settle a long-running trade row that has rattled global markets. The US in 2016 alleged that China doled out US$100 billion in “market price support” for wheat and rice, as well as corn production, above levels agreed to at the Geneva, Switzerland-based WTO. “The expert group did not support the Chinese position on the calculation of the subsidy level for our minimum purchase price
Chinese navy’s 70th birthday parade showcases rising sea power
Next month’s nautical spectacle will allow country to show off its most advanced warships to an international audience, including the US.
China’s Starbucks Rival Luckin Piles Up Losses Before IPO
Luckin Coffee, China’s fast-growing Starbucks rival, has one thing in common with consumer tech companies going public in the U.S.: It has racked up hefty losses ahead of its planned public listing. The coffee delivery startup estimates that it lost some $232 million in 2018, its first year of ...
China shuts Turkey consulate in wake of Uygur row
Izmir mission closed down for ‘efficiency’ shortly after war of words between Beijing and Ankara over treatment of Muslim minority population in Xinjiang.
Beijing blasts US consul for questioning Hong Kong’s autonomy
Top US diplomat in Hong Kong says Beijing is ‘intimately’ involved in the city’s decision-making, drawing fierce criticism from pro-establishment camp.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University expels student for protest over campus 'free speech' wall | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Hong Kong Polytechnic University has punished four students for a protest over a student union “free speech” bulletin board. The school said they misbehaved by assaulting school staff, refusing to comply with orders, and exhibiting conduct in detriment to the school’s reputation. Master’s degree student Gerald Ho was kicked out of the school on Friday, and […]
China is blocking joint World Bank report that calls for state-owned enterprise reform
Many core recommendations in the report echo complaints by the United States and others on China’s trade policies.
China says Canada has questions to answer on judicial independence
East Asia News -BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's Foreign Ministry grabbed a chance to question the state of judicial independence in Canada on Friday (March 1), as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's
World must have 'eyes wide open' to dangers posed by Huawei, says Pompeo
SE Asia News -MANILA - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday (March 1) that it was risky for nations to build their next-generation wireless communications networks with equipment and
Berlin: We've had no recent talks with Beijing on cybersecurity
The German government has not held talks with Beijing about cybersecurity issues in recent weeks, a spokesman said when asked about a report that Chancellor Angela Merkel was seeking a no-spying deal with China over the Huawei issue.
China says it never recognised India, Pakistan as nuclear states
China Friday said it has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear powers and ruled out extending such a status to North Korea following the unsuccessful second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam.
Economic wake-up looms for China’s premature bull stampede
Investors party in relative data blackout but weaker growth may temper their optimism
