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Beijing’s global media influence machine — Q&A with Sarah Cook
Beijing spends billions on trying to influence the global conversation about China. Where does the money go, and is it working? I spoke to Sarah Cook, who has tracked media and internet freedom in China since 2007, about her latest report on the PRC’s attempts to shape the way we talk about China.
‘Peachy pandemic escape’ — Phrase of the Week
A canned sweet snack from northern China has become the latest pandemic hit with Chinese consumers looking for an escape.
In the black-and-white documentary ‘Jet Lag,’ pandemic travelogue meets family memoir
Exploring the personal and the familial, award-winning director Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s nonfiction film intermingles the pandemic and politics — but not in the way you expect.
This week on TikTok: The future of China’s dialects, balancing China’s education, and China and the Middle East
Want more like this? Subscribe to The China Project’s official TikTok channel, ChinaVibe, where Susan St.Denis explains complex topics about China clearly and simply in TikTok’s fast evolving visual and verbal language.
Coal production at record high
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Friday December 16
There’s a run on lemons in China because people think it cures COVID
A doctor mentioned lemons in a press conference in Shanghai, and panic buying ensued. But China has plenty of lemons, which come from China’s “international lemon capital” and “lemon hometown.”
Chinese moviegoers attend ‘Avatar 2’ premiere in full hazmat suits as COVID-19 spreads
With the COVID-zero policy and few major releases, 2022 has been a troubling year for the film business in China. Will Avatar: The Way of Water give Chinese movie theaters a lift?
Rumors swirl in Kabul over attack on Chinese-operated hotel
There’s something happening in Afghanistan, but what it is ain’t exactly clear.
Retail sales are still going south
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Thursday December 15
China’s hotels are bullish on 2023 after a dreadful 2022
This has been an annus horribilis for China’s hospitality industry. But hotel executives are looking forward to a recovery in 2023 and predict that mid- to high-end chains will prosper as cheaper hotels and one-property operations increasingly go out of business.
China tries to mollify Iran after Xi’s deal-making trip to Saudi Arabia
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed his “dissatisfaction” with China’s joint statement with Gulf states while meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhuan.
Francis Fukuyama on the risky path Xi Jinping chose for China
As China navigates an uncertain post-COVID-zero future after highly unusual nationwide protests, celebrated scholar and author Francis Fukuyama spoke to Audrey Li Jiajia about what we can learn from the events of the past few weeks.
Feminists and LGBTQ activists at China’s COVID protests
A feminist and an LGBTQ activist speak out about the A4 protests inside and outside China — how they sparked divisions, misogyny, and violence, but also hope and solidarity.
A trillion yuan for water conservation
Business briefs from the Chinese media — Wednesday December 14
Can consumption vouchers rescue China’s economy?
A new batch of vouchers to stimulate consumption is being issued across China. As the country emerges from COVID zero, and with exports, investment, and consumption all down, can the program get China’s economy out of the doldrums?
The Xi’an Incident: When Chiang Kai-shek was imprisoned by his own men
On December 11, 1936, divisions in the Nationalist camp boiled over. Their brief mutiny against Chiang Kai-shek had momentous consequences for Chinese history, forcing Chiang to ally with the Communists against the Japanese.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Mixed reaction for animated adaptation of science-fiction hit ‘The Three-Body Problem’
A highly anticipated TV series based on a globally successful science fiction trilogy premiered over the weekend and broke viewing records — but not everyone thinks it lived up to the hype. Meanwhile, Netflix might be the next streamer to woo fans with the closest thing China has to the Star Wars franchise.
Have the seeds of dissent been sown in China?
Something in China changed this year. Citizens have a new appreciation of their power even against a highly repressive party-state armed with advanced surveillance technology, argues scholar Lynette H. Ong.
Chinese and Indian border troops clash for the first time since 2020
A skirmish between Chinese and Indian soldiers broke out last week in the western theater of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), stoking fears of violent clashes to come.
