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China’s Economy Shows Fresh Weakness in Factories, Housing and Consumer Spending
The latest data from business surveys heaped further pressure on policy makers to revive the country’s crumbling growth.
Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia reject China's latest South China Sea map
The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing said on Thursday should be viewed rationally and objectively.
Why China’s E-Bike Market Is Facing a Wave of Battery Fires
Experts say the rapid growth of the electric battery market in China has far outpaced current safety regulations.
Super typhoon heads towards Hong Kong, China issues highest warning
China issued its highest typhoon warning on Thursday as Super Typhoon Saola, packing winds of more than 200 kph (125 mph), headed towards the southeastern coastline, threatening Hong Kong and other major manufacturing hubs in nearby Guangdong province.
China must ‘release the dragon’ as first World Cup win keeps Olympic hopes alive
Aleksandar Djordjevic’s side haul themselves back into qualifying contention for Paris 2024 with win against Angola.
China decried U.S. tariffs, requested equal treatment for its firms in Raimondo meeting
China's commerce minister urged Chinese companies investing in the U.S. to be given "equal treatment" and called U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports "discriminatory", when he met U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo this week, his ministry said on Thursday.
Gina Raimondo’s Boeing support raises hope that China may order its planes again
The US commerce secretary wrapped up her China trip with a press conference at Boeing’s maintenance hanger in Shanghai, but whether the American aircraft maker resumes sales to China remains up in the air.
Hormel Foods cuts annual forecasts on weak China demand, adverse pork prices
Hormel Foods on Thursday cut its annual revenue and profit targets after missing quarterly results as the Skippy peanut butter maker wrestled with lower pork and turkey prices and sluggish demand in key market China.
China Wants Its ‘Silver’ Haired Teachers to Get Back to Teaching
With some of the lowest retirement ages in the world, China is launching its biggest recruitment drive yet for retired teachers to return to the classroom.
The Maoist film that wowed the West after premiering at Venice Film Festival
In 1971, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Beijing sent a film of Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women to the Venice International Film Festival, from where it became a hit with Western movie-goers.
China Defence Ministry: We will crack down on every corrupt official
China's Defence Ministry on Thursday vowed to "crack down on every corrupt official", when asked about a reshuffle of senior rocket force commanders and the whereabouts of former Defence Minister Wei Fenghe, who has not been seen for months.
Chongqing set for anti-spying ‘first’ with local take on revised national law
Local version of China’s newly revised anti-espionage regulation due to take effect on Friday goes further than national law, including strict oversight of all overseas exchange and anti-spying training for civil servants and students.
China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump
Five Chinese tech firms, including Baidu Inc and SenseTime Group , on Thursday launched their artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to the public after receiving government approval, as China's government pushes to widen the use of such products amid competition with the United States.
China's top banks report rising bad loans as property woes spread
Nonperforming loans jumped 7.6% in first half at four big state-owned lenders
China's Baidu makes AI chatbot Ernie Bot publicly available
Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu has made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model, Ernie Bot, fully available to the public.
Super Typhoon Saola: highest warning as storm barrels towards southern China
Weather bureau issues red alert, with typhoon expected to make landfall between Huilai in Guangdong and Hong Kong on Friday.
Mainland Chinese buyers return insurance sales to pre-Covid levels in Hong Kong
Life insurance sales to mainland Chinese visitors hit HK$31.9 billion (US$4 billion) in the first half versus HK$540 million a year earlier, as they sought refuge in the city’s diverse products amid a weakening yuan.
Screenwriter hit with #MeToo allegations, igniting debate in China about ‘gray areas’
Allegations of inappropriate behavior in Shi Hang’s interactions with coworkers and fans contrast with his public reputation as an ally for women’s rights. In social media posts defending himself, Shi claims that the flirtatious encounters are consensual.
The battle against amnesia
For most of her life, Wang Youqin has strived to document victims of the Cultural Revolution, telling their stories without sentimentality or — in many cases, when the victims were also perpetrators of violence — remorse. For the first time, her work is now available in English.
Chinese tourists are back
Tourism boomed over China’s May Day holiday. It’s a good sign for the country’s economic recovery.
Xiong’an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government is now building a hundred kilometers southwest of Beijing: Xiong’an. Andrew breaks down why he sees it as an urban manifestation of the fundamental ideas embodied in Xi Jinping’s ideological vision for China.
The case of Idris Hasan and other Uyghurs behind bars around the world at the behest of China
Uyghurs have been detained on spurious charges in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Thailand, and Turkey, as the governments of those countries attempt to curry favor with Beijing.
Editor’s note for May 4, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
From influential to antiquated: Liu Shaoqi’s ‘How to Be a Good Communist’
“The question I shall discuss is how members of the Communist Party should cultivate and temper themselves,” Liu Shaoqi wrote in the early days of the Chinese Communist Party. Is anyone still interested in the answer?
A cultural program for young Uyghurs in Germany
Activist Abduweli Ayup is attempting to keep Uyghur culture alive by teaching the younger generation their history and heritage.
Pakistan releases Chinese man arrested for blasphemy
A Chinese national is out on bail in Pakistan after he was arrested for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. His rare release comes amid a growing number of blasphemy cases in the country — some of which are settled outside the court through mob lynchings.
Editor’s note for May 3, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
The fantastical queer world of nisu
In some fan circles on the Chinese internet, male celebrities are being reimagined with feminine traits in edited images and erotic literature. For female fans, the online trend is their statement of sexual liberation and quiet resistance to traditional masculinity in mainstream media.
The Peking Express: A train heist for the ages
China’s greatest train hijacking, by a band of outlaws calling themselves the Autonomous Army, changed the Republic of China.
After a half-century, does panda diplomacy still work?
Last week, Ya Ya the panda returned to Shanghai after spending 20 years in Memphis. Her arrival marked the end of a drawn-out saga that turned political, renewing an old question of whether panda diplomacy remains necessary.
Editor’s note for May 2, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China’s withering cities through the lens of Chen Ronghui
The portraits in Chen’s series “Freezing Land” feature people he discovered on Kuaishou, a popular Chinese video app with millions of users mostly in third and fourth-tier cities. The project is an examination of Chinese cities on the verge of vanishing.
Should you be frightened by China’s revision to the anti-espionage law?
Last week, Beijing broadened the scope of its anti-espionage law. Some fear that it will create a more hostile environment for foreign individuals and organizations operating in China.
A rare environmental success story: The Blue Map app and its 3.8 million Chinese users — Q&A with Ma Jun
This is a conversation with Ma Jun, author of China’s Water Crisis and founder of a leading non-governmental organization whose interactive Blue Map app has armed 3.8 million Chinese citizens with easy-to-interpret air- and water-pollution data to name and shame polluters. More amazingly, Ma has collaborated with multiple provincial governments that see the value of transparency.
