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August 13, 2024

The Mrs. Degree

China this month began its first university degree program in all things related to marriage, including planning and matchmaking services, an initiative aimed at boosting the country’s falling birth rates and alleviating labor and other issues due to an aging population, CNBC reported. Starting next month,...

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July 18, 2024

Big Pockets

China could be outpacing the US and Europe in the race to realize fusion, a potentially clean energy source that has attracted massive investment in recent years. According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese crews work 24 hours a day on fusion projects in a...

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June 21, 2024

Erasing Identity

China’s government has been renaming villages inhabited by ethnic Uyghurs in the northwestern province of Xinjiang with names reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s ideology, a move human rights groups say underscores Beijing’s ongoing efforts to weaken its minorities’ identities, Nikkei Asia reported this week. On Wednesday,...

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June 06, 2024

Banning Showoffs

Chinese Internet regulators are banning online influencers known for their luxurious lifestyles from social media, amid a government crackdown to tackle individuals who “create a ‘wealth-flaunting’ persona … in order to attract followers and traffic,” NBC News reported. Last week, Chinese users on Douyin – China’s...

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March 27, 2024

Intimidation Games

The United States and the United Kingdom on Monday imposed sanctions on Chinese state-backed hacking units for allegedly intruding into American energy and defense systems and stealing British voting registration data, signaling an escalation of cyber conflict between Beijing and the West, the New York...

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January 18, 2024

The Big Shrink

China’s population dropped in 2023 for the second year in a row, according to the country’s statistics agency, a decline that has raised demographic and economic worries in one of the world’s largest economies, NBC News reported. On Wednesday, China’s National Statistics Bureau said the country’s...

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October 31, 2023

Feline Fraud

Chinese police rescued more than 1,000 cats from being slaughtered and sold as pork or mutton, an incident that sparked concern across the country over food safety and animal rights, the BBC reported. State-affiliated media said this month that police conducted the rescue operation following a...

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September 28, 2023

Dangerous Threads

China’s rubber-stamp parliament unveiled a new bill this month that would ban clothing considered offensive to the Chinese people, a move critics say underscores the government’s increasing restrictions on personal freedom and expression, the Washington Post reported. The National People’s Congress published a draft that would...

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September 11, 2023

Local Only

China ordered government workers and state-owned companies not to use iPhones and other Apple products for work, a ban that comes amid ongoing geopolitical and trade tensions with the United States, the Guardian reported. A number of state agencies last week instructed their employees not to...

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September 04, 2023

Crossing Lines

China’s land and maritime neighbors protested against a newly published map displaying new and expanded Chinese borders, a move that could exacerbate already simmering regional tensions over Beijing’s territorial claims, Nikkei Asia reported. Last week, China’s Ministry of Natural Resource published a 2023 edition of the...

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August 21, 2023

Push, Pull

China launched military drills around Taiwan over the weekend, shortly after the island’s vice president, William Lai, made two stopovers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last week, Lai visited Paraguay to reinforce relations with the South American nation – one of Taiwan’s...

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July 06, 2023

New Fronts

China will restrict the export of two important metals used to manufacture semiconductors, a move that could further escalate the global trade war over access to microchips, CNBC reported. The Chinese commerce ministry announced that the new regulations will require exporters to seek a license to...

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June 26, 2023

Backroom Chats

American diplomats claimed that the autocratic president of China, Xi Jinping, had no clue that one of his spy balloons had been shot down over the US in February. As CNN noted, Xi’s potential ignorance of a major international story illustrated a “significant lack of...

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June 23, 2023

Light Measures

One of China’s biggest airlines came under scrutiny this month after the company issued a new policy imposing strict weight requirements on female flight attendants, NBC News reported. Hainan Airlines unveiled a series of guidelines for its cabin crew, saying that female flight attendants would immediately...

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June 12, 2023

Spy Games

China is operating a spy station in Cuba, according to the US Biden administration, a revelation that comes days after reports emerged that Beijing was paying Havana to set up a facility just 100 miles off Florida, the Washington Post reported. The eavesdropping facility in Cuba...

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