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Australia plans major overhaul of defenses as China rises
A government-commissioned report says Australia needs to spend more on defense and develop the ability to strike longer-range targets as China’s military buildup challenges regional security. The Defense Strategic Review supports the AUKUS partnership among Australia, the United States and Britain and recommends deepening relationships with other key partners. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the review was meant to assess whether Australia is able and prepared to defend itself. The review says China’s ambitious military buildup is occurring without transparency or reassurance of its intentions. One of the immediate steps taken under the new priorities was to reduce an order for infantry vehicles. The money saved will be diverted to getting HIMARS rocket systems.
Australia Plans Major Changes to Military Amid China’s Build-up
A major government review of Australia’s military readiness has recommended sweeping changes to the defense forces, as the country adjusts to a rapidly changing strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific region.
Asia Earnings Week Ahead: SK Hynix, Kweichow Moutai, BYD
Asia’s earning season has kicked off this month and analysts are expecting the downward trend in earnings revisions has finally come to an end following the robust revival in China. Gareth Allan reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
Enhancing the Corporate Social Responsibility, Chery officially launched the Green Public Welfare Fund Plan
Doha: Chery announced the creation of a Green Public Welfare Fund Plan at the Shanghai Auto Show on April 18th. Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery Auto...
‘It’s already the epilogue’: censorship, cost-cutting hit China’s media industry
At the peak of the Chinese tech boom around 2016, the biggest companies in the sector began to aggressively build up media portfolios in the news and entertainment sectors, but they are now beating a hasty retreat.
China urged to step up laser weapons development to keep pace with US
The country risks falling behind its major strategic rival, defence analysts say.
Baltics condemn China envoy's stance on ex-Soviet nations
The three Baltic states have strongly condemned comments by China’s envoy to France who appeared to say in a recent French television interview that the former Soviet republics aren't sovereign nations. The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in separate announcements late Saturday deemed statements by Chinese Ambassador Lu Shaye as unacceptable. The diplomat was asked in a recent interview with French news channel LCI if he thought that the Crimean Peninsula belongs to Ukraine. He replied by drawing a parallel to ex-Soviet nations and said that there is no international agreement to “solidify their status as a sovereign country.”
Paris, Kyiv, Baltic states dismayed after China envoy questions Ukraine sovereignty
Ex-USSR countries don't have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their sovereign status, China's ambassador in Paris said.
China’s Reincarnation Monopoly Has a Mongolia Problem
The twin lines of the Dalai Lama and the Jebtsundamba Khutughtu have shaped geopolitics for centuries.
Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.
Australia seeks to rebalance ties with China after three-year freeze
Foreign minister says Canberra must 'lower the heat' on potential Taiwan conflict
BYD $11,450 EV Hatchback Set to Reshape China’s First-Car Market
A new electric hatchback starting from just 78,800 yuan ($11,450) from BYD Co. is set to intensify competition in China’s already crowded entry-level car market.
Why the West needs China’s EV prowess as it moves to build supply-chain capacity
Will the global supply chain that originates from China have to be rewired, as rising protectionism in America targets most things made in China amid deteriorating US-China relations?
Baidu teams with Chinese chip startup on smart car tech
Tech giant will integrate driver assist solutions into Black Sesame's products
What's Going On With Alibaba Shares - Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR (NYSE: BABA) shares are trading lower by 2.01% to $88.92 Friday afternoon. Shares of Chinese companies are trading lower amid a fall in Asia-Pacific stocks. Weakness may be driven by tensions over Taiwan, recent U.S. earnings and Japan inflation data.
Alibaba, BYD dent Hong Kong stocks as mainland funds seen exiting while SMIC tumbles on weak chip outlook
Hong Kong stocks fell after mainland Chinese investors withdrew their money from the market by the most in nine weeks. Big tech leaders and electric-vehicle (EV) makers paced losses amid concerns about intensifying competition, while SMIC sank on chip industry outlook. The Hang Seng Index lost 1.6 per cent to 20,075.73 at the close of Friday trading, bringing the pullback this week to 1.8 per cent. The Tech Index slumped 3.1 per cent while the Shanghai Composite Index declined 2 per cent. China'
ByteDance, Alibaba and Bilibili titles among 86 new game licences approved by China regulator in April
Beijing approved 86 new games in April, including titles by internet giants ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding and Bilibili, as the world's largest video gaming market continues to recover from a long winter. The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the agency responsible for licensing video games in China, published its latest list of approvals on Thursday. The figure of 86 is roughly the same as the number of new licences given out in each of the first three months of 2023, in a
Alibaba Scores More Wins After China Doles Out Gaming Licenses
China's gaming regulator on Thursday granted publishing licenses to 86 domestic online games. Gaming titles belonging to Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), Baidu, Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), and TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd made it to the list, Reuters reports. Also Read: Activision Blizzard Fails To Renew Gaming License With NetEase; Explores Other Alternatives To Tap Biggest Gaming Market China's videogame regulator has started granting publishing licenses to new titles from April 2022, ending
Chinese lunar lander reaches Moon, on mission to make China third nation to bring back rocks
The Chang’e-5 lunar lander touched down on the Moon today, and will spend two days collecting two kilograms of rocks before returning to Earth in mid-December. If it is successful, China will become the third nation to retrieve lunar samples.
Chinese commercial livestreamer caught selling counterfeit bird’s-nest soup, reigniting criticism of delicacy
A popular livestreaming pitchman who once sold $57 million worth of goods in a single day has stirred up a double-layered controversy about a traditional Chinese medical tonic.
‘Evil Man’: GitHub archive of gendered violence in China goes viral on social media
An anonymous person has collected more than 1,800 items on gendered violence in China, writing: “In this corrupt East Asian culture, women’s lives are cheap as flies. If we ignore what’s happening before us, the world will never become better.”
Editor’s note for Monday, November 30, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
European Union wants to move past Trump turmoil and challenge China together with Biden
A paper by the European Commission, expected to be reviewed and possibly approved on December 10-11, proposes a U.S.-EU alliance to deal with challenges including China, the Financial Times reported.
Manbang, China’s Uber for truck cargo, raises $1.7 billion
China’s largest cargo-truck-on-demand company has raised a pile of cash to expand door-to-door freight services.
The China Project holiday gift list 2020
Not sure what to get your favorite sinophile for the holidays this year? Look no further, The China Project has you covered with our holiday gift list. Below are eight items that are sure to please even the staunchest of China snobs.
China’s 10 richest people in 2020
The Hurun China Rich List annually recognizes China’s wealthiest. This year’s Top 10 includes familiar faces, mostly self-made billionaires who came of age when the country was poor. Who are they?
Chengdu and Chongqing prepare joint 2032 Summer Olympics bid
Could the Summer Olympics be returning to China? Chengdu and Chongqing are making their case for it.
Editor’s note for Friday, November 27, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Australian wine and coal fall victim to souring of ties with China
Coal and wine exporters are feeling the chill from Canberra’s frosty relationship with Beijing. Australian companies that depend on China should all take note: The go-go years are over.
Xiaomi executive resigns over speech describing customers as ‘losers’
Wang Mei was forced to step down from her senior role at mobile phone and gadget company Xiaomi after describing customers with a Chinese slang word referring to unattractive young men. But was she punished more harshly because she was a woman?
‘Finding Yingying’: A family’s search for a missing daughter in a foreign land
The disappearance of Zhang Yingying is the subject of Finding Yingying, a documentary by director Jenny Shi. It chronicles two years in the life of Yingying’s family, from their efforts to find her in the summer of 2017, to the 2019 trial of her abductor and murderer.
The Story of a Plague
How does one tell a story about the COVID-19 pandemic? In his new documentary ‘76 Days,’ set primarily at Wuhan hospitals, director Hao Wu chooses to push back against the prevalent approach in foreign coverage of China, where the gaze is fixed on the government and art falls into a false binary of protest or propaganda.
Xinjiang pepper chicken with Sichuan-style spice
Cold chicken that is numb, spicy, fragrant, and fresh.
Editor’s note for Wednesday, November 25, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
India has banned over 200 Chinese apps since June border clash
As the India-China border conflict remained unresolved, New Delhi continued to pressure Beijing by ordering a fourth wave of Chinese app bans.
Rural ecommerce: In China, farmers find new ways to grow
Farm-to-kitchen ecommerce companies are changing the lives of China’s farmers and urban consumers. For a country whose rural sector is dominated by small farms with minimal technology, the use of digital technology is spurring a revolution.
Justice during imperial China: Reexamining the ‘Lady Hughes’ affair of 1784
A British gunner’s execution for the “accidental” murder of two Chinese sailors led to Western powers seeking extraterritoriality from the Qing. That’s the popular reading of the Lady Hughes affair, anyway — a narrative that is misleading and wrong.
Markets shiver as big Chinese state-owned firms defaulting on their debts
Large state-owned firms have been defaulting on their bonds, spooking Chinese investors.
