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Reservations over China’s plan for private sector to kick-start economy
Despite top entrepreneurs’ chorus of support for 31-point action plan from Beijing, smaller business owners are ‘not sure it will make any difference’.
Chinese EVs Are Now Cheaper Than Gasoline Cars
A savage price war has been great for consumers, who are embracing plug-in vehicles much faster than predicted.
Record Flooding Highlights Rural-Urban Divide in China
The decision to protect Beijing by diverting water prompts widespread anger in Hebei province.
Tesla relies on China for 40% of battery supply chain: analysis
EV maker pushes to broaden lithium sources, lower exposure to Chinese suppliers
New Zealand's new prime minister is making nice with China
Chris Hipkins will be more reluctant to engage with U.S.-led security initiatives
China, Philippines' dispute over grounded warship heats up
China again asked the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship - a World War Two-era vessel now used as a military outpost - from a disputed shoal, after Manila rejected Beijing's earlier demand.
TikTok Replaces Top Shopping Executive With Retail Veterans
TikTok has hired two retail veterans who worked at Amazon and Meta Platforms to help oversee its ambitious push to build a giant U.S. ecommerce business. At the same time, TikTok’s U.S. ecommerce general manager, Sandie Hawkins, is leaving the company, according to a person with direct knowledge ...
Don’t Be So Picky About a Job, China’s College Graduates Are Told
Under pressure from Beijing, Chinese schools have been told to do more to secure jobs for students, who are facing bleak prospects.
Chinese Exports Fall at Steepest Pace Since February 2020
Slide in outbound shipments reflects China’s fraying trade ties with the Western world, even as exports to Russia boom.
Law firm Dentons splits with China's Dacheng as counter-espionage law takes hold
Global law firm Dentons said on Tuesday that it has split with its China branch, Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, in the wake of new national security restrictions imposed by the Chinese government.
China retains crown in scientific papers, widens lead over U.S.
Japan declines in most-cited studies to 13th place, outstripped by Iran
Afghanistan inks an oil deal with China, but the Taliban and Beijing don’t really trust each other
The Taliban-led administration has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in northern Afghanistan. But recent attacks on Chinese nationals and other marks of instability will likely make Beijing proceed cautiously.
Carmaker Geely acquires Meizu, one of China’s oldest smartphone brands
China’s hard-charging auto manufacturer Geely stunned the car world when it bought Volvo in 2010. Now it has taken over struggling consumer electronics brand Meizu, which it hopes will give it an operating system for its cars.
1,500 miles of new high-speed railways
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Thursday January 5
Editor’s note for January 4, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn
Ecuador and China sign a free-trade agreement
Ecuador has become the fourth Latin American country to ink a lucrative free-trade agreement with China. But not everybody is happy about Beijing’s growing engagement in the region.
LGBTQ year in review: What happened in 2022
Looking back on a challenging year in the fight for LGBTQ rights in China and Taiwan.
The China Project 2023 Red Paper
2022 was an annus horribilis for China, its people, and its reputation abroad: We look back on a year of lockdowns and slowdowns and make predictions for 2023, Year of the Water Rabbit.
After a year of corruption scandals, China’s national chip fund forges ahead
2022 was a tough year for the ‘Big Fund’ that was set up to make China’s semiconductor industry self-reliant, but it rounded out the year with an investment in a silicon wafer manufacturer, and is set to ramp up big time in 2023.
World’s largest pumped storage plant
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Wednesday January 4
Xi Jinping says it’s normal for people to hold different views
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
2022: The year of sport in China
COVID-19 was the gold medallist in sport in China last year, with the Winter Olympics taking place in a “closed-loop” bubble and most other international events canceled. But it was a good year for China’s female athletes.
Philippines President Marcos flies to Beijing to woo China
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is in Beijing on his first foreign trip of the new year. He is expected to ink a slew of trade and agriculture deals, and even a memorandum of understanding over the disputed South China Sea.
The fengshui-inspired mural art of Sheep Chen
Chen refuses to work within the clichés of contemporary street art, opting instead to search for inspiration in myths and legends.
China’s private tutoring firms can’t catch a break
A new set of rules for education and tutoring companies brings no respite for the once-booming sector, which has been suffering since a government crackdown began in 2021.
Can China win over Lula’s Brazil again?
China is sending a high-level delegation to attend the inauguration of Brazil’s former President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is known to be an “old friend” in Beijing. But the world has only gotten more tense since Lula’s pro-China policies of the 2000s.
The top idioms of the year
There were a lot of Chinese idioms that came out of 2022. Here’s a review of some of the best ones used to describe major events that occurred over the past year, but one four-character phrase took the cake.
Magic, translation, and revolution: Rebecca Kuang’s ‘Babel’
Rebecca Kuang discusses her best-selling historical fantasy novel: Set in the 1830s in England, the book weaves the story of a Chinese-born protagonist who sets out to prevent a war with China over the opium trade.
China’s top internet buzzwords of 2022
25 hot online words, phrases, and memes from this year
Taiwan’s contested vision of its own history
In Tainan, a lesser-known museum presents a de-sinicized version of the island’s history, and reveals a political divide over collective memory.
China’s instant coffee market is red hot
Instant coffee in China is far more delicious than it used to be, thanks to heated competition between foreign multinationals, led by Nestlé, and a new range of innovative domestic competitors.
