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China’s chaotic COVID re-opening
Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, talks about her time spent in Shanghai and Beijing between October 2022 to early January 2023. She shares her firsthand experience with quarantine, testing, and lockdowns — as well as witnessing the protests and China’s sudden reopening.
Xi’s great pivot and risks in the Chinese market in 2023 | Live with Lizzi Lee
Diana Choyleva, the chief economist at Enodo Economics, talks about Xi’s COVID zero U-Turn and what it might mean for China’s economic recovery in a post-pandemic world.
2,560 gigawatts, lidar listing in the U.S., black gold
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Thursday January 19
Longi to build the world largest solar manufacturing base
Longi is a giant of the solar energy industry, and it has just announced ambitious plans to construct an enormous new plant in Shaanxi Province.
Editor’s note for January 18, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Beijing reshuffles advisory body ahead of Two Sessions conclave in March
The Chinese Communist Party has begun preparations for the annual season of political meetings.
China slaps 18-year prison sentence on Macau’s ‘Junket King’
Alvin Chau, the 48-year-old former chair of Suncity Group, has been found guilty in a case centered around hundreds of billions worth of illegal bets. His high-profile case is the latest move in Beijing’s crackdown on Macau’s once-lucrative gambling industry.
How a woman in rural China posing as Russian became a gay icon
A middle-aged woman in rural China — who was once caught pretending to be Russian using an AI-powered face and voice filter on Douyin — has cultivated an online following for her perceived “campy” aura…and one rather awful song.
Cash-strapped urban Chinese youth salivate over cheap, filling meals
As Chinese urban professionals tighten their purse strings in the face of a slowing economy, an unassuming lunch option traditionally enjoyed by blue-collar workers in Northeastern China has become an online sensation.
From state secret to city staple: China opens its first subway
Subways have become a dime a dozen in 21st-century Chinese cities, another box the country can tick off on its list of modernizations. But China’s first public subway was a disruptive challenge, both a state secret and urban leveler.
Real estate investment drops, CATL and NIO team up, and lithium is still golden
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Wednesday January 18
A Chinese electric vehicle is coming to a market near you
In 2022, China became the world’s second-largest auto exporter, and it’s now breathing down the neck of frontrunner Japan. China’s rising auto and electric vehicle brands are now on the verge of flooding into foreign markets, but it’s not going to be easy for them to succeed.
Editor’s note for January 17, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Uganda scraps key railway contract with China
Two years of stalled talks and months of silence from China have led Uganda to terminate a $2.3 billion railway contract, as Beijing changes its overseas financing model to avoid billions in debt defaults.
Hong Kong sports bodies told to include ‘China’ in names
Hong Kong’s Olympic Committee has told its member associations to include “China” in their official names or risk having funding pulled.
3% GDP growth
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Monday January 17
Li Daiguo and his lullabies
In his new album, “pilgrimage to the realm of deep baby sleep,” which is called “the frequency that help his highness glutinous rice balls” in Chinese, Li’s highness glutinous rice balls is his baby. As a wish that a father gives to his baby, we simply borrow the halo to look back upon the blank of childhood.
The Chinese LED company lighting up the world’s stages
Absen is a Chinese company whose products everyone saw in 2022 in the NBA, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and even the G20 Summit in Indonesia.
10 most anticipated Chinese movies of 2023
With the COVID-zero policy out of the picture, 2023 promises to be a busy year for Chinese cinema.
How Chairman Mao shaped the chairman of the board in Chinese companies — Q&A with Christopher Marquis
How have Chinese entrepreneurs been shaped by China’s past and the Maoist ideas that continue to shape the country’s present? Why does writing about China attract such vitriol even when the subject matter is business?
