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China’s radically transformed tutoring market, one year after crackdown
A year after Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on China’s for-profit online tutoring companies, New Oriental Education, TAL, and Gaotu Techedu remain the market leaders, but they — and their competitors — are scrambling to adapt in the new environment.
Palme d’Or-winning short film ‘All the Crows in the World’
“All the Crows in the World” impressed judges at Cannes last summer and won the top prize in the short film category. This 15-minute film is currently available for streaming.
Editor’s Note for Thursday, August 4, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Are we facing another crisis in the Taiwan Strait?
John Culver, former national intelligence officer for East Asia and CIA analyst focusing on China, reflects on the last Taiwan Straits Crisis in 1995-96, following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent high-profile visit to Taiwan.
A foreigner’s life in a Beijing jail in 2009
A foreign man who had spent seven months in jail in Beijing sent me the following description of his daily life at the Beijing No. 1 Detention Center shortly after his release.
Russia and China draw closer over Myanmar and Taiwan
The Dragon and the Bear will only get closer as Western tensions with China and Russia mount.
China begins military drills around Taiwan
In the aftermath of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile visit to Taiwan, Beijing has fired off ballistic missiles in the waters surrounding the island and has promised days of live-fire military tests and drills.
Taiwan is losing bridges in Central America
The “Taiwan Friendship Bridge” in Costa Rica was originally a gift from the Taiwanese government. There is now a motion to officially remove “Taiwan” from the name. It’s a sign of the times: Taiwan’s influence in Central America has waned amid Beijing’s growing interest in the region.
Offline electronic appliances retailer Gome can’t compete with the ecommerce companies and is facing ruin
Gome and its charismatic founder, Huang Guangyu — who started out as a trash collector — made a fortune by selling discounted electrical appliances at big-box stores. Huang later spent a decade in jail for insider trading, but after he was released in 2020, he promised a return to the glory days.
Why is Maybelline closing its brick-and-mortar stores in China?
Once a beloved makeup brand in China — known for its affordable products and glamorous image in advertising campaigns — Maybelline’s business model in the country is being tested by growing local competition and rapidly changing demands from increasingly sophisticated consumers.
Bonnie Glaser on Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and how Beijing will retaliate
In yesterday’s episode of our new business TV show, Lizzi Lee interviewed Bonnie Glaser, the director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Pelosi’s day in Taiwan shakes up the world
United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concluded a short trip to Taiwan, where she met the president and other officials as well as a group of rights activists, and infuriated the Chinese Communist Party.
Impact investing with Chinese characteristics
Yijing Wang, founder of 2060 Advisory based in Hangzhou, discusses the impact investing landscape in China and how it has accelerated since Beijing announced its 2060 carbon neutrality goal.
Demand for consumer electronics is way down, but automotive electronics are a hot new market
With a lack of must-have gadgets and a sluggish economy — not to mention COVID — Chinese consumers are not buying new electronics. But car companies are making up for the missing sales.
A French assault on Taiwan
In the summer of 1884, French forces, frustrated by Qing refusal to comply with their colonial wishes in Indochina, attempted to demonstrate their power by taking Taiwan. Neither the landing nor the war went to plan.
Weibo reacts to Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: ‘No quarantine for the old witch?’
Patriotic messages spread like wildfire on Chinese social media yesterday amid Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. “All wars cost heaps of money and many lives. But at the same time, it’s so humiliating to let the U.S. keep testing our red lines. What a dilemma!”
Editor’s note for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
The ‘ice-cream assassin’ seeking to become China’s first ice-cream unicorn
Chicecream, which makes high-end ice cream, proudly brands itself as Chinese. But now angry internet users are calling it out for its exorbitant prices. The company and its investors are undeterred.
Nancy Pelosi touches down in Taiwan
The most-tracked live flight in the world, carrying U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, landed in Taiwan today, as people around the globe held their breath in fear of an escalation between the United States and China.
