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When exactly will India surpass China as most populous?
India will surpass China's population this month. Or maybe in July. Or, perhaps it's happened already? Demographers are unsure exactly when India will take the title as the most populous nation in the world because they're relying on estimates to make their best guess.
Alibaba To Enter The Chatbot Arena - Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA)
A week after Alibaba Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: BABA) announced it will restructure into six standalone divisions, Bloomberg reported the Chinese tech giant is seeking companies to test its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot. Cloud computing unit is sending invitations
China Brandishes Military Options in Exercises Around Taiwan
The People’s Liberation Army’s ships, planes and troops held three days of drills in a spectacle designed to warn Taiwan against challenging Beijing.
China's SenseTime unveils new AI products and chatbot
SenseChat can email, tell story, but U.S.-blacklisted parent silent about launch
Kremlin says China has every right to conduct Taiwan exercises, France cannot mediate in Ukraine
The Kremlin said on Monday that China had every right to respond to what it called repeated "provocations" against it and carry out military exercises around Taiwan.
Alibaba rolls out ChatGPT alternative Tongyi Qianwen · TechNode
Tech giant Alibaba unveiled its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot on April 7, joining the rush of Chinese tech majors to bring out a ChatGPT rival.
Rights group: China sentences 2 lawyers on 'farcical' charge
A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. It's part of an ongoing crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on its critics. Human Rights Watch said Monday that Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to 14 years and Ding Jiaxi to 12 years for “subversion of state power.” Such proceedings are conducted under intense secrecy and the court did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation. In 2015, President Xi Jinping ordered the arrests of around 200 lawyers and legal activists. Both Xu and Ding had served multiple years in prison for their dissident stances on the country’s authoritarian system. A senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch called the convictions “cruelly farcical.”
BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu Criticizes Autonomous Driving - Pandaily
During the BYD 2022 annual report communication meeting, Chairman Wang Chuanfu shared his perspective on autonomous driving in a clear and honest manner. He dismissed unmanned driving as impractical and misleading, emphasizing that advanced assisted driving is the way forward for future development.
China's car sales stay flat in March amid price war
Growth in sales of China's passenger vehicles was flat in March from a year earlier, industry data showed on Monday, as more price cuts by auto brands and the rollout of incentives by local governments helped to support demand.
China’s Latest ChatGPT Rival Revealed by Alibaba-Backed SenseTime
SenseTime Group Inc. showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence services developed with the company’s access to vast troves of data and deep computing power, including the latest Chinese challenger to AI phenom ChatGPT.
Mongolia grass fires threaten border with China, Chinese state media report
Grassland fires from Mongolia on Monday threatened to spread across the border to China, spurring local Chinese authorities to dispatch teams to intercept them to avert a major blaze, Chinese state media reported.
Geopolitics, Lack of Manpower Fuel Turbulent Revival for China’s International Air Travel
Lengthy negotiations between regulators, and time needed for airlines and airports to build back capacity are also hobbling a speedy recovery
China military 'ready to fight' after drills near Taiwan
China’s military has declared it is “ready to fight” after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president’s trip to the U.S. last week. China says the “combat readiness patrols” named Joint Sword were meant as a warning to self-governing Taiwan, which China claims as its own. The exercises were similar to ones conducted by China last August, when it launched missile strikes on targets in the seas around Taiwan in retaliation for then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but have been smaller and less disruptive.
Brazil’s Lula Heads to China With a Ukraine Peace Proposal That’s Effectively Dead on Arrival
Brazilian President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva had hoped to arrive in Beijing on Tuesday with a plan to present to Chinese President Xi Jinping that would end the conflict in Ukraine. Lula dispatched a special envoy to Kyiv last week to present the idea of ceding Crimea to Russia in exchange ...
The 2023 BYD Qin Plus EV Shows How Far BEVs Have Come Over The Last Decade
For a very long time, the upfront purchase price for most full battery electric vehicles was generally way higher than it was for comparable internal combustion engine vehicles. However, besides the obvious environmental benefits of EVs, they have lower operational and maintenance costs, often resulting in a lower total cost of ownership despite having higher […]
Tesla to build Shanghai factory to make Megapack batteries
Tesla plans to ramp up output and lower the costs of its Megapack battery units as the world shifts toward using more renewable energy.
Editor’s note for Monday, August 3, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Trump gives TikTok 45 days to sell U.S. operations
After a few days of indecision, President Trump has settled on an ultimatum for TikTok: Either sell your U.S. operations to an American company in 45 days, or be banned. Microsoft is in negotiations to buy it, but there are many uncertainties.
Coal is back in China
After several years of restricting new coal-burning power plants, China is building them again despite existing excess capacity.
Zoom to stop direct sales in China
In an apparent attempt to avoid further scrutiny in the U.S., Zoom is essentially pulling out of China, and will only offer its services there in partnership with local Chinese companies.
Chinese social media users call ByteDance founder unpatriotic and weak in the face of U.S. moves against TikTok
While the news about Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok was a huge relief for its American users, it was received poorly on the Chinese internet, with many calling Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder and CEO, a “spineless traitor” and a “despicable coward,” among other insults.
After TikTok, what happens to internet freedom?
The meaning of internet freedom is changing. Under Trump, the U.S. seems set to tell China it was right to distrust foreign-owned social media apps.
The emperor who rules the emperors
The Jade Emperor is the head honcho of the divine Daoist pantheon, the mysterious “Lord of Heaven,” a vague guiding entity awarding dynasties with the “Mandate of Heaven.” But he has also been mocked through the ages, his history a strange combination of majesty and comedy, pathos and bathos, inscrutable as the bureaucracy he heads and just as inept.
Physical and mental abuse in Chinese figure skating
Singaporean skater Jessica Shuran Yu recently detailed the abuse she suffered during training at the hands of overzealous Chinese coaches. Her experience, sadly, is not unique.
15 million former Ofo users still waiting for their deposit refunds
Once the world’s biggest bike-sharing company, Ofo remains buried under lawsuits and debt.
Editor’s note for Friday, July 31, 2020
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Hong Kong postpones Legislative Council election, citing COVID-19
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said she would postpone the upcoming Legislative Council election from September 6 this year to September 5, 2021. It was the latest blow to the pro-democracy opposition, who had hoped to win big in that election.
Will Trump order Chinese owner to sell TikTok?
Will Washington force Chinese internet giant ByteDance to sell its globally popular video app TikTok to a U.S. company?
U.S. sanctions the biggest ‘company’ in Xinjiang
The U.S. has announced new sanctions on the biggest state-owned entity in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where a million or more Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been subject to extra-legal detentions.
China’s own Big Tech antitrust probe
Within days of U.S. Congress questioning American Big Tech companies in an antitrust probe, it looks like China may investigate its own tech giants for anticompetitive practices.
China uses drones to attack locust swarms
A broad swath of countries from Kenya to Pakistan to Laos has been dealing with huge swarms of locusts this summer. China is the latest victim.
After public outcry, Zhejiang University expels student convicted of rape
Zhejiang University (ZJU), one of the most prestigious institutions in China, has expelled a male student who was allowed to remain enrolled despite a conviction for sexually assaulting a woman.
Shanghai’s history of race, privilege, and escapism explored in ‘Champions Day’
James Carter examines Shanghai’s colonial past through the lens of a single event — its Champions’ Stakes horse race — and in doing so, paints a rich picture of the politics that enabled Shanghai’s so-called “golden era,” as well as the racial dynamics and social rituals that shaped daily life.
Editor’s note for Thursday, July 30, 2020
A note from today’s editor of the The China Project Access newsletter.
Hong Kong disqualifies a dozen pro-democracy candidates from running for office
Today, a dozen pro-democracy candidates were disqualified from Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong. The government made clear that dissent to the national security law that Beijing imposed on July 1 is now a disqualifying condition.
Former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui dies at 97
Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s president from 1988 to 2000 who ushered the island from authoritarian rule to democracy and a sense of nationhood, died on July 30, 2020, at the age of 97.
