In June, the ridesharing firm that ate Uber alive in China went public in the United States. Now China has decided to eat it alive. Didi's delisting is no big surprise — but the risk of U.S.-China financial decoupling and a mass exodus of over 250 Chinese ADRs has never been greater.
This week's Sinica Podcast was recorded live at last month's NEXTChina conference in New York. What do we make of China's wide-ranging set of regulatory moves in the past year, touching on many disparate realms of Chinese life — from real estate to renewable energy, entertainment to education?
A legal workaround that has allowed Chinese companies in restricted industries to raise capital abroad, primarily in the U.S., looks set to end.
The Canadian luxury winterwear brand is being criticized, once again, by social media users and state media.
From classrooms to phone screens to celebrity idols, the Chinese government is tightening its control over Chinese society. As culture reaches a new level of strategic importance, The China Project takes stock of the disparate changes to society in the past few years.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has become the first global sporting organization to say ‘no’ to the Chinese government, suspending all matches in the country and calling for champion Peng Shuai’s freedom and for her #MeToo allegations to be investigated.
Can the Chinese tech company behind TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, succeed where Hollywood-backed Quibi failed and get people to pay for short mobile phone films?
They are not exactly anti-vaxxers because many of them seem to have had COVID shots themselves, but a large group of Chinese people took to social media to complain about a government campaign announced today to vaccinate China’s senior citizens, and warn (with no evidence) of side effects.
At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Senegal, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled nine initiatives to help Africa combat COVID-19 and spark economic growth. A pledge to donate 600 million vaccine doses and produce an additional 400 million locally caught the most attention.