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China hates to be engaged in trade war but will firmly defend national interests (Xinhua)Trump's promises to Kim Jong-un leave US and allies scrambling ($$The New York Times)Video: Trading bombs for beaches? Tracking North Korea's tourism plans (The New York Times)This should have been the real headline of the Trump-Kim summit: 'US weakens its 70-year alliance with South Korea' ($$The Washington Post)Podcast: What happened at the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore? (Brookings)North Korea sanctions remain until complete denuclearisation, says US (BBC)Q&A: Why Trump treats Iran differently to North Korea ($$Financial Times)Trump sees end to North Korea threat despite unclear path forward ($$The New York Times)Trump declares North Korea 'no longer a nuclear threat' (CNN)Kim Jong Un has Donald Trump right where he wants him (Newsweek)Economie - Nationaal
Truckers on strike and the structural contradictions of China's logistics industry (China Change)Strike by lorry drivers paralyses Shandong and Shanxi (AsiaNews)Local governments don’t believe the center will watch them go bankrupt (Trivium)The government still can’t tame the property market (Trivium)China takes wheel as true driver of global auto industry (Automotive News China)Financial de-risking will continue (Trivium)Xi: Build maritime economy (China Daily)China's Achilles heel lies with property companies ($$Financial Times)China makes breakthrough in mega-ship production (Xinhua)China to launch $47 billion fund for investment in strategic, emerging industries: state planner (Reuter)Economie - Internationaal
Just the fear of a trade war is straining the global economy ($$The New York Times)Yuan-denominated crude futures make steady progress (China Daily)China's ride-hailing giant Didi to launch in Australia (BBC)China keeps opening. But it's all about making domestic players more competitive - not granting concessions to the West (Trivium)Huawei denies being locked out of bidding to help build 5G network in Australia (The Guardian) When it comes to making electric cars, there’s China and everyone else (Quartz)China is hurting itself and the world by pretending it is poor (Bloomberg)China to step up SCO investment (Global Times)China, Russia fuse massive nuclear deal ($$Caixin)China plans a global infrastructure power grab: digital Silk Road, global electricity grid (Axios)Internationale Relaties
Chinese TV series attract an international audience (Xinhua)Construction work on China-funded stadium in Cambodia in full swing (Xinhua)Turkey eyes stronger regional, global role with closer China ties (Global Times)China is spending billions on its foreign-language media. Is it worth it? ($$The Economist)China smells opportunity in the Middle East's crisis (Foreign Policy)Political issues may hinder China-India oil alliance: experts (Global Times)Expected Chinese evasion of US sanctions on Iran clouded by trade, diplomatic talks (Platts)China's exceptionalism rewrites the Western political playbook (The Economist)Australia cements Solomon Islands deal amid China influence debate (BBC)Trump-Kim summit creates new anxieties for Asian allies ($$The New York Times)China - Verenigde Staten
Trump's tariffs will harm US businesses, international trade framework, experts warn (Xinhua)US protectionism now has a price tag (China Daily)Trade tariffs: Chinese media in Trump 'fools build walls' jibe (BBC)US and China expand trade war as Beijing matches Trump's tariffs ($$The New York Times)Chinese tariffs are already hitting Trump voters ($$The New York Times)China decides to impose additional tariffs on 50 billion dollar of US imports (Xinhua)China to impose 25% tariffs on US farm, auto products ($$The Wall Street Journal)Trade fight squeezes US companies working in China ($$The Wall Street Journal)China firmly opposes US tariff announcement (Xinhua)White House announces tariffs on $50 billion of goods from China ($$The Wall Street Journal)China - Europa
China's influence in Europe (China Digital Times)EU, China continue cooperation on Iran nuke deal: EU spokesperson (Xinhua) 15 jun 2018Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is going after Europe (CNN)China, EU should work together for better globalization: envoy (Xinhua)Chinese investment in UK property down 70 percent (China Daily)EU takes a stand against China’s ‘technology violations (Asia Times)'Ook Europa krijgt meer te maken met de scherpe macht van China' (Het Financieele Dagblad)Nation 'regrets' EU's complaint over IPR (Global Times)China, EU vow to deepen strategic cooperation, safeguard multilateralism (Xinhua)China’s investment in central and eastern European countries surpasses $9 billion (Global Times)China - Nederland
ING hungry for slice of digital banking sector (China Daily)Prof. Frank Pieke and Mikko Huotari new leaders of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)Wang Yi Meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok of the Netherlands (fi.china-embassy.org)China, Netherlands willing to strengthen cooperation on B&R (Xinhua) Chinese raket met Nederlandse apparatuur naar achterkant van de maan (NOS)Chinese student moet meer gaan betalen (Het Financieele Dagblad)Marietje Schaake over Chinese handelspolitiek: 'Het Westen wordt uitgespeeld' (Het Financieele Dagblad)Nederlandse dirigent Harmen Cnossen brengt muzikale vrijheid aan Chinese musici (NPO)Universiteiten van Leiden, Delft en Rotterdam willen toe naar gezamenlijke samenwerking met China (Universiteit Leiden)Universiteit Wageningen verwacht onderzoekspark te ontwikkelen in China ($$Het Financieele Dagblad)Politiek
What Xi got up to in Shandong - The most persistent message: We must become strong, and technology is key(Trivium)Book on Xi's journalistic thought (Xinhua)People's Daily ♥︎ Xi Jinping (SupChina)Film and TV censorship about to get even worse - memo (SupChina)Video games banned from live-streaming, Tencent’s new game is spared (SupChina)China's political meritocracy versus Western democracy ($$The Economist)New wave of arrests and expulsions in China against Korean missionaries (AsiaNews)China to honor standout contributors to reform, opening up (Xinhua)China fires, probes top newspaper chief who 'opposed censorship' (Radio Free Asia)Daddy dearest: The face of Mao Zedong is still everywhere. But now Xi Jinping is ready for his close-up (Topic)Maatschappij
China launches campaign against pornographic web novels (Xinhua)China playing key role in ending AIDS: UNAIDS chief (Xinhua)China sees fewer newborns in 2017 despite expanding two-child coverage (Global Times)China faces severe transplant organ shortage (People's Daily Online)Didi's Hitch returns, but only for same-sex rides (SupChina)Truck driver protests censored (SupChina)China is finally ending the one-child policy. It can't happen soon enough (The Washington Post)Almost all poor villages in China to access Internet by 2020 (Xinhua)Online charity platforms attract 1 bln donators (Xinhua)China moves to improve medical technology, quality (Xinhua) Militaire zaken
Xi stresses building elite maritime force during navy inspection (Xinhua)Chinese missile launchers reappear on disputed South China Sea island (CNN)China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare ($$The Washington Post)France challenges China's dominance in South China Sea (Philstar)China to promote military-civilian development of hydrogen technology (Xinhua)China is expanding its military footprint in Africa (Quartz)Beijing may have removed missiles from disputed South China Sea island (CNN)Mischief in Malacca: The long reach of China's atoll bombers (Asia Times)China's hypocritical stance on maritime militarization (Asia Times)INDOPACOM, it is: US Pacific Command gets renamed (Military Times)Cultuur
China to fine camping, cooking on Great Wall (Global Times)China builds alliance to protect Great Wall (Xinhua)5,000-year-long Chinese civilization verified (Xinhua)Before the revolution (New York Review of Books)Can English remain the 'world's favourite' language? (BBC)Archaeologist who uncovered China's 8,000-man terra cotta army dies at 82 (NPR)China to use AI and drones to protect Great Wall (Xinhua)Ai Weiwei's Little Blue Book on the refugee crisis (The New York Times)Time-honored hutongs in Beijing restored to original beauty (Women of China)Forbidden City to move an extra 130,000 antiquities underground for safekeeping (Global Times)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
China's quantum radar to monitor high-speed aircraft from space (Global Times)More overseas talent returns to China, many to senior positions (Global Times)China takes the fast lane in self-driving auto race (Nikkei)China takes new steps to lure science talent from abroad (Chinese Academy of Sciences)Nature Index 2018: rise of Chinese research strength continues (Times Higher Education)ZTE's near-collapse may be China's Sputnik moment ($$The New York Times)China delivers parts for 'artificial sun' reactor (Global Times)11 Chinese universities enter global top 100 in latest QS rankings (Xinhua)Essay topics of China’s university entrance exams: Would you pass the test? (People's Daily Online)More Chinese students admitted into world's top universities (CGTN)Milieu
Chinese firms with good environmental records to be exempted from output curbs (Reuters)China is serious about combatting air pollution (Trivium)China seizes 955,800 tonnes of foreign garbage in Jan-May (Xinhua)Meet the scientist who may have unexpectedly solved China's smog problem (Radii)How China is handling its environmental challenges (Xinhua)Fund proposed to clean environment (China Daily)China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting (Reuters)China is reforesting land the size of Ireland. Here’s what that looks like ($$The Washington Post)The challenges for China's water management (China Policy Institute)Dramatic surge in China carbon emissions signals climate danger (Unearthed)Rampen en ongelukken
10 years ago in Sichuan, a quake killed 69,000. Should China be thankful? ($$The New York Times)Video: Sichuan earthquake, the ghost town visited by millions (BBC)Death toll in NW China knife attack rises to 9 (Xinhua)China karaoke bar fire kills 18 in Yingde (BBC)China dragon boat accident leaves 17 dead (BBC)North Korea bus crash kills 32 Chinese tourists (BBC)Fears parts of world's longest sea bridge are floating away (The Guardian)Who killed more: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? (New York Review of Books)Shanghai van hits 18 pedestrians outside Starbucks (BBC)Burning oil tanker 'sinks off China' after one week (BBC)Schandalen
Screenplay-writing insurance boss pleads guilty to bribery (SupChina)A tax-evasion scandal ensnares Chinese film-production companies ($$The Economist)Key questions about the June 4 massacre (China Change)China's bear bile industry persists despite growing awareness of the cruelty involved ($$The Washington Post)'Loving Liu Xiaobo is a serious crime, a life sentence' (China Change)China issues tough rules to curb academic fraud (China Daily)Li Keqiang wants better milk (Trivium)Want to see your baby? In China, it can cost you ($$The New York Times)A hearing with Chinese characteristics: How the Beijing Lawyers’ Association helps persecute human rights lawyers (China Change)Chinese doctor jailed for calling traditional medicine 'poison' issues apology (The Guardian)Sport
Chinese Football Association to ban tattoo from players: report (Global Times)North Korea hails 'openhearted talk' in unprecedented meeting with South Korean envoys (The Japan Times)Project 2022: China building winter sports culture from scratch (Axios China)First rule of Chinese fight club: no karaoke (The New York Times)Can China save face on the slopes and join the alpine aristocracy? (China Policy Institute)Li Haotong, China's best male golfer, is putting the world on notice (SupChina)China to build 30,000 additional schools emphasizing soccer training by 2025 (China Plus)Manchester United are China's most popular digital team (BBC)Ways in which Chinese football teams circumvent every rule (SupChina)After years of big spending, Chinese soccer goes quiet (AP)Taiwan
China opposes US-Taiwan contact after opening of new US representative office in Taiwan (CGTN)US de facto embassy in Taiwan reopens as 'symbol of strength' of ties (The Guardian)China must be ready for 'crisis' with US over Taiwan: Beijing press (The Guardian)Taiwanese think tank floats South China Sea base plan for US troops (South China Morning Post)Chinese may abandon airlines that refer to Taiwan as a 'nation': expert (Global Times)To avoid Beijing's ire, Trump won’t send high-level officials to opening of de facto embassy in Taiwan (South China Morning Post)US warships unwelcome in Taiwan Straits (Global Times)Qantas to refer to Taiwan as a territory, not a nation, following Chinese demands (ABC News Australia)Beijing wants Taiwanese to identify as Chinese. But how do Taiwanese really feel? ($$The Washington Post)Taiwan plans sculpture honoring Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel-winning activist (The New York Times)Hongkong
A lengthy jail term sends a message to Hong Kong’s rebellious youth (The Economist)Controversial joint checkpoint plan for Express Rail Link approved amid unprecedented scenes at legislature (Hong Kong Free Press)China's vaccine tourists drain Hong Kong's supply of cancer drug (Bloomberg)Hong Kong, a statue in honour of Liu Xiaobo (AsiaNews)37 Swedish newspapers urge China to free detained Hong Kong publisher Gui Minhai (AFP)115 thousand at vigil in Hong Kong in memory of Tiananmen dead (Asia News)Hong Kong independence activists sentenced to four weeks' jail (AFP)Hong Kong and the mainland: An evolving interdependency (HKTDC Research)What Hong Kong scientists' questions about mainland funding reveal (South China Morning Post)Leading Hong Kong independence activist convicted of rioting, sentencing to come (Reuters)Macau
Macau's fortunes shine as April gaming revenues surge 28 per cent (South China Morning Post)Writer Jung Chang entry in Macau not guaranteed by authorities (Macau News)Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past (The Guardian)26 elected as new legislators of China's Macao: preliminary results (Xinhua)Why Macau is less demanding of democracy than Hong Kong (The Economist)Macau enlists Chinese army as authorities struggle with typhoon fallout (Reuters)Macau former chief prosecutor sentenced to 21 years in prison (Xinhua)Macau legislators at China's parliament ask Kim Jong Who? (Reuters)Significant development since Macao's return to China (CCTV)Macau's former chief prosecutor charged with nearly 2,000 crimes (BBC)Tibet
A Tibetan tried to save his language. China handed him 5 years in prison ($$The New York Times)China opposes US resolution on Tibet issue (Xinhua)Tibet group thanks Sweden in 'Chinese spy' case (BBC)Sweden charges man with spying on Tibetan exiles for China (Reuters)Dalai Lama calls on Tibetans to remain united as India drifts toward China (Reuters)India spurns the Dalai Lama's celebration, worried about China (The New York Times)Tibetan temples conduct exams on Constitution, rules (Global Times)The silence of the state: The Jokhang fire and the response of the Chinese government (highpeakspureearth.com)Yokhang, sacred Tibetan monastery in Lhasa, hit by fire (BBC)Police asks Tibetans for Dalai Lama tips (Global Times)Xinjiang
How should the world respond to intensifying repression in Xinjiang? (ChinaFile)China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other ($$The Economist)Xinjiang jails Uyghur civil servants over lack of enthusiasm for anti-extremist campaigns (Radio Free Asia)All mosques should raise national flag: China Islamic Association (Global Times)China’s repugnant campaign to destroy a minority people (The Washington Post)Popular Uyghur singer's whereabouts unknown, believed detained in Xinjiang re-education camp (Radio Free Asia)China's gulag for Muslims (SupChina)Xinjiang implementing measures for the PRC counter-terrorism law (China Law Translate)Survivors of China's far west political camps detail ordeal (AP)What really happens in China's 're-education' camps ($$The New York Times)Binnen-Mongolie
Within pain there is also hope (China Digital Times)China approves coal mine project in Inner Mongolia (Xinhua)China builds Mongolian language database with cloud computing (Xinhua)800 years after Genghis Khan, Chinese Mongolians forge new prosperity (Xinhua)Southern Mongolia: Peaceful protesters met with violence by Chinese government (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Southern Mongolia: Herder community activist to be prosecuted for statements on land rights (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Southern Mongolia: Four herdsmen arrested for online petition over unpaid subsidies (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Incredible photos show Inner Mongolian labourers battling brutal conditions (Daily Mail)Ethnic Mongolian activist detained after tweet about land dispute (Radio Free Asia)Parents protest curbs on Mongolian language teaching in Chinese schools (Radio Free Asia)Een lach en een traan
Beijing has 800,000 fewer smokers ... But its smoking population strangely remains the same (The Beijinger)Chinese man poses as safety inspector, shuts down rival factories to help friend (South China Morning Post)Ivanka Trump accused of tweeting 'fake' Chinese proverb (BBC)For Chinese pedestrians glued to their phones, a middle path emerges ($$The New York Times)The Chinese concept of 'dirty' (Sinosplice)Female-only lane in Chinese swimming pool ignites debate online (CGTN)Textbook claims scantily-clad women sexually harass men (Global Times)China Mao impersonator at blockchain conference causes furore (BBC)An increasing number of Chinese women want their boyfriends to be cute and submissive (Global Times)More owners willing to spend big on pet burial (China Daily)
