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The Uyghur Tribunal one year on: Has anything changed?
One year has passed since a panel of ordinary citizens in the U.K. declared a genocide to be unfolding in the Uyghur homeland, but much of the world still has to act on its implications.
Biden extends visa protection scheme for Hong Kong residents
Hong Kong residents living in the U.S. will now get to stay for an additional two years under Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), the U.S. government announced today, less than two weeks before the initial protections were set to expire.
Activision Blizzard and NetEase’s feud, explained
The messy breakup has it all: disgruntled gamers, changing power dynamics, and even shade-throwing beverages.
The world’s deadliest earthquake? Look to Shaanxi, 1556
China has had its fair share of severe earthquakes over the centuries, most recently in Sichuan in 2008 and Tangshan in 1976. But the largest in its history happened this week during the Ming dynasty.
Is China’s demography China’s destiny?
Bert Hofman, former World Bank country director for China, talks about China’s shrinking population.
Zhang Zipiao paints the subtleties of life
It’s hard to describe Zhang Zipiao’s art as beautiful, at least in the conventional sense. There’s an anatomical precision to the way her subjects are often sliced and examined against backdrops of unexpected colors.
The significance behind China’s population decline | Live with Lizzi Lee
China has rolled out a slew of policies to boost its shrinking population. Yun Zhou, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Sociology, talks about the issues behind the demographic crisis, but also warns of the policies’ impacts on gender inequality and what might come next.
Bittersweet victories for China’s tennis stars at Melbourne
Also: Chinese snooker players charged with match fixing, and Blizzard and NetEase have a very messy, very public divorce.
Taiwan to allow transnational same-sex marriage
After years of advocacy from LGBTQ rights campaigners, Taiwan has decided to recognize transnational same-sex marriages, though Taiwanese-mainland Chinese couples are excluded.
Editor’s note for January 20, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
‘COVID free and feeling fantastic in the Year of the Rabbit’ — Phrase of the Week
A newly coined idiomatic pun captures the mood as China enters its New Year holidays, with many people recovered from COVID feeling good about the year ahead.
Finished Chinese films that we might never get to see
From Cultural Revolution dramas to China’s answer to ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ censors have stopped these movies from being screened in China, and many are not available elsewhere either.
Huge solar energy profits, football corruption, Genki Forest arrest
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Friday January 20
Under-the-radar private Chinese investments are a blind spot for U.S. regulators
For years, China’s sovereign wealth fund has made investments in large private American investment funds that finance startups and companies working on strategic or sensitive technology in the U.S. — but regulators have yet to investigate these activities.
‘The China Dream’ and the hard truths of doing business in China
Book No. 2 on the Ultimate China Bookshelf is Joe Studwell’s “The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth.”
Editor’s note for January 18, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Uyghurs condemn World Muslim Communities Council delegation to Xinjiang
The love affair between Beijing and Muslim leaders deepened last December with a rare visit by Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia. Then over the New Year, a group of Islamic dignitaries came to Ürümchi, supposedly to see for themselves how well their beleaguered Uyghur brethren are being treated by the Chinese government.
China hits COVID peak, but Lunar New Year travel may cause a new wave
China’s health ministry announced that the number of critical COVID patients has already peaked, but official data has yet to mollify public concerns about the swell of anticipated infections over the Lunar New Year holiday.
The epic songs of the Dong people
The Dong people of Southwest China have been singing epic songs for millennia. That intangible heritage is fading — but one villager is fighting to keep it alive.
