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China expects fair, lasting, binding peace agreement for Ukraine crisis: FM Wang Yi (Xinhua)China to push for more just, reasonable int'l order (Xinhua)Wang Yi at Munich Security Conference (Pekingnology)India, Japan en VS vinden elkaar in wantrouwen tegen China ($de Volkskrant)The Global South: Battleground or bridge in US-China rivalry? (Tracking People's Daily)China reacts to Trump and Putin's Ukraine war talks (Newsweek)Trump proposes nuclear deal with Russia and China to halve defense budgets (The Guardian)The new AI arms race: global powers vie for dominance (AI Tools)Trump takes on Xi and Putin at their own great power game (Newsweek)US-China: 'Cold War 2' or something worse (Asia Times)Economie - Nationaal
The state of China's small and micro companies (Pekingnology)China inflation picks up after Lunar New Year spending boost (AFP)Learning from Hefei: Economic and political pressures are pulling in different directions in Xi Jinping's China (Inside Story)China's exports to over 160 countries, regions achieve growth in 2024 (Xinhua)China says its economy grew 5 percent last year. It probably didn't (The Washington Post editorial)China aims to achieve substantial progress in all-around rural revitalization by 2027 (Xinhua)China's economy faces historic setback not seen in over half a century (Newsweek)China to cut pay by half for staff at top financial regulators, sources say (Reuters)China corporate profits set for third year of declines (FT)Is China's five percent GDP growth credible? (Yicai)Economie - Internationaal
Will Tesla's megafactory boost China's energy storage industry? (Ecns)China: one country, two economies, two strategies (Appia Institute)The start-ups seeking to challenge China's stranglehold on rare minerals ($FT)The China (shopping) syndrome (The Times of Israel)Belt and robot: Chinese start-up to open first robotics facility in Central Asia (SCMP)Chinese EV maker Zeekr launches ultra-fast charging network in Israel (China Daily)China's bold move: an electric vehicle battery revolution in Morocco (Sololef)China's bold move: an electric vehicle battery revolution in Morocco (Sololef)China's exports to over 160 countries, regions achieve growth in 2024 (Xinhua)Is India the new old China yet? (FT)Internationale Relaties
Ambassador: Morocco becoming strategic hub for Chinese investment (Morocco World News)Mapping China's influence around the Panama Canal (BBC)Chinese companies 'developing' Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine (The New Voice of Ukraine)China fueling a political explosion in the Philippines (Asia Times)Australia condemns 'unsafe' airspace encounter and rejects Chinese allegations RAAF plane 'deliberately intruded' (The Guardian)Chinese media in a good news, soft power push into Africa (Asia Times)China's 'small and beautiful' foreign aid projects show global commitment (chinadaily.com.cn)Manila relying on 'transparency initiative' to offset Beijing's moves in South China Sea (SCMP)'Salami-slicing' at sea? Chinese buoys test Japan's patience (SCMP)Arab states turn to China on Palestine (Coffee in the Desert)China - Verenigde Staten
Graham Allison & Henry Huiyao Wang on escaping Thucydides's Trap in China-US relations (Pekingnology)Navigating US-China relations under Trump (Sinification)Will China fill gap left by the US at G20 foreign ministers' meeting in South Africa? (SCMP)Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China's censorship requests (The Guardian)US-China-Mexico relationship: the race to win Mexico's favor (The US-China Perception Monitor)China denounces US, Philippines on military, national security issues (China Daily)Trump thinks antagonising China will help save the US economy. He couldn't be more wrong (The Guardian)The US weapon China's communists fear the most (Asia Times)The US weapon China's communists fear the most (Asia Times)TikTok returns to Apple and Google app stores in the US (BBC)China - Europa
Has BBC changed its China coverage strategy? Recent positive stories surprise Chinese netizens (Global Times)China could fill the gap 3 ways as the West exits Africa's Sahel region (Asia Times)Sino-EU ties seen as key to global growth (China Daily Global)Watching China in Europe - February 2025 (GMF)In Panama, Rubio says China threatens canal, demanding 'immediate' action (NYT)'Surrounded by sharks': Europe tries to keep afloat amid pressures from China and US (SCMP)EU launches 'simplification' agenda in effort to keep up with US and China (The Guardian)Tesla takes EU to court over tariffs on EVs made in China (The Guardian)'Europe Last’: How von der Leyen's China policy traps the EU (Asia Times)Chinese buyers interested in unwanted German Volkswagen factories, source says (Reuters)China - Nederland
China, Netherlands pledge to build open world economy, strengthen green development cooperation (Xinhua)Amsterdam's 'Lonely Uyghur,' the court of the citizens of the world, and Xi Jinping's genocide (Bitter Winter)China ready to expand economic, trade exchanges with Netherlands: Chinese Premier (Xinhua)Chinese embassy strongly opposes Taiwan-related motion adopted by the Netherlands (Global Times)Chinese invloed en inmenging in het Nederlandse medialandschap (China Kennis Netwerk)Remarks Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands on the Xizang separatist's visit to the Netherlands (nl.china-embassy.gov.cn)When US comes calling the Dutch: shame if anything happened to AMSL (SCMP)ASML-baas hekelt Amerikaanse druk: Bidens exportverboden zijn 'economisch gemotiveerd' (de Volkskrant)China threatens chip war retaliation against Dutch, Japanese (Asia Times)Zes jaar cel voor Nederlands-Chinese zakenman Yang Bin, die grachtenpanden, molens en station Amsterdam Centraal nabootste (NRC)Politiek
China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows (The Guardian)Top ideologst Wang Huning's Chinese New Year wishes to religions: get ready for even more control (Bitter Winter)China's top procuratorate orders arrest of former national political advisor (Xinhua)The real problem with DeepSeek (Bitter Winter)Catholic Church in China: the strange case of bishop Ji Weizhong (Bitter Winter)DeepSeek's answers include Chinese propaganda, researchers say ($NYT)China's good tidings for the Year of the Snake? (Appia Institute)We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan (The Guardian)Xi lauds China's solid progress despite challenges in Year of Dragon (Xinhua)Chinese activist Teacher Li's memecoin launch divides dissident community (The Guardian)Maatschappij
'DeepSeek moved me to tears': How young Chinese find therapy in AI (BBC)She said no: marriages in China plummet to record low (The Guardian)'Ineffective' generic drugs fuel rare public anger in China (BBC)China's population woes deepen as marriage registrations plummet to lowest level since 1980 (SCMP)China's migrant dorm entrepreneur capitalises on housing affordability (FT)In pictures: Welcoming the Lunar New Year (BBC)Across Asia, hundreds of millions gather to mark lunar new year (AFP)The man making a business out of China's burnout generation – podcast (The Guardian)'They tied me to a bed' - China sees resurgence in medicating 'trouble-makers' (BBC)China's frugal young adults accelerate saving, raising economic risks (Reuters)Militaire zaken
China never engages in aggression or expansion and will firmly counter all threats and challenges: Defense Spokesperson (China Military Online)Chinese navy accused of 'unsafe' manoeuvre after fighter jet allegedly releases flares near Australian aircraft in S.China Sea (The Guardian)Questioning China's ability to actually fight (Asia Times)Satellite picture shows China's huge nuclear weapons research center (Newsweek)Images show China building huge fusion research facility, analysts say (Reuters)China says 'forced' to acquire nuclear weapons as US sounds warning (Newsweek)What will China do with its newfound military power? (Newsweek)What will China do with its newfound military power? (Newsweek)What wWill China do with its newfound military power? (Newsweek)US vs. Chinese cruisers: China is building its top surface warship at breakneck speed, and it's a match for its US rival (Business Insider)Cultuur
Chinese film stirs national pride, rakes in $1bn in days (BBC)China's best music of 2024 (ChinaTalk)Cultural 'seed bank' explores richness of Chinese civilization (China Daily)China's passion for the piano fades as Beijing strikes somber tone ($Nikkei)Your culture’s no good here ($Trivium China)Xi's speech at literature, art symposium to be published (Xinhua)Man smashes Ai Weiwei's porcelain sculpture at Italian museum (NYT)Stamped postcards unveiled to celebrate 50 years of discovery of Terracotta Warriors (Ecns.cn)Les débuts de la « saga » chinoise du Puy du Fou, le plus grand spectacle immersif au monde (Le Vent de la Chine)'Emotional power': China's Covid wounds reopened in tense, divisive 'An Unfinished Film' (SCMP)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
China opens recruitment for 'planetary defence force' amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth (The Guardian)China steps up planetary defense efforts amid asteroid impact concerns (Global Times)Un Serpent dopé à l’IA (Le Vent de la Chine)Why China's super-rich are spending billions to set up universities ($SCMP)DeepSeek: a tragedy foretold? (ChinaTalk)China shortens assessment time for invention patents (Xinhua)DeepSeek: the view from China (ChinaTalk)China will need to spend more to become an education powerhouse ($Caixin)Lu Zhengzhe talks about a quantitative investment model fully reliant on AI. It is from there that DeepSeek was born (Pekingnology)Patents and national power (ChinaTalk)Milieu
China's coal power habit undercuts 'unprecedented pace' of clean energy (The Guardian)A thirst for power: China's water grid shapes its future (Asia Times)China’s EVs driving world into the post-carbon energy era (Asia Times)China plants 4.45 million hectares of trees in 2024 (Xinhua)Top 10 weather and climate events in 2024 unveiled (cma.gov.cn)China's solar, wind power installations soared to record in 2024 (Reuters)China sees warmest year on record in 2024 (Xinhua)'We need to be prepared': China adapts to era of extreme flooding (The Guardian)Technology sows seeds of hope in combating desertification (Xinhua)Peking predicting petroleum peak ($Trivium)Rampen en ongelukken
Xi orders all-out rescue of people buried in landslide (Xinhua)32 civil servants handed punishments for fatal expressway collapse in China (Xinhua)Earthquake strikes Tibet region; 95 dead, more than 100 injured, reports say ($SCMP)Tibet earthquake: at least 53 dead as strong quake strikes near holy Shigatse city (The Guardian)Fire at food market in northern China kills eight people and injures 15 (AP)WHO implores China to finally share Covid origins data, five years on (AFP)Blast rocks residential building in southern China (Reuters)Zhuhai car attack: senior heads roll in south China city where dozens died ($SCMP)Ground collapse leaves 13 workers missing in southern China (Xinhua)Car driven into crowd outside China primary school (BBC)Schandalen
In China, rare dissent over a program to save on drug costs (NYT)Myanmar escape by actor signals action to come against scammers (SCMP)Denied asylum in Italy, Church of Almighty God member was arrested and tortured in China (Bitter Winter)Top Chinese chess players banned in widespread corruption probe (Sixth Tone)A kidnapped Chinese actor, a scam gang, and a very public rescue operation (The Guardian)How a viral post saved a Chinese actor from Myanmar's scam centres (BCC)Chinese actor Wang Xing says fraud gang trafficked him to Myanmar scam compound ($SCMP)China's top procuratorate orders arrest of former senior political adviser (Xinhua)Former chairman of China Everbright Group handed 12-year sentence for embezzlement, bribery (Xinhua)Chinese companies apologise for 'shrunken' sanitary pads (BBC)Sport
Xi declares 9th Asian Winter Games open (Xinhua)41 Chinese chess individuals penalized for cheating (Xinhua)Table tennis will not be the same without three Chinese superstars ($SCMP)China held 671 marathons, road races in 2024 (Xinhua)China jails ex-football head coach for bribery (BBC)Two former football officials sentenced to years behind bars for accepting bribes (Global Times)World Chess Championship 2024: Ding Liren (China) v Gukesh Dommaraju (India) pre-match questions, answered (The Guardian)Global trail runners gather in China's Zhangjiajie for epic race (Xinhua)Match-fixing in Chinese football rampant during Covid, ‘there was no escaping it’ player says (SCMP)China's new improbable football stars (BBC)Taiwan
Taiwan prepares for Trump's tariffs, and a changed Washington (NYT)Taiwan student delegation from Ma Ying-jeou's foundation kicks off 2025's first mainland exchange (Global Times)US-Taiwan policy: a guide for the perplexed. Strategic ambiguity vs. clarity (ChinaTalk)Taiwan 2025: a year to watch closely (The US-China Perception Monitor)China's invasion force reveals major air power boost (Newsweek)Harassment of Taiwan an ominous clue to Trump 2.0 foreign policy (Asia Times)NATO, Taiwan both fighting undersea cable war (China in Eurasia)Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC (Tom's Hardware)Chinese analyst Zhang Hua: What Trump means for Taiwan (Sinification)Taiwanese general charged with plotting attacks to help Chinese invasion (The Telegraph)Hongkong
The A-level student who became an enemy of the Chinese state (BBC)UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state (The Guardian)Hong Kong's rich potential as a crypto art trading hub (Asia Times)Hong Kong chief justice claims overseas judges have left due to 'orchestrated harassment' (The Guardian)Shiu Ka-chun, advocate for Hong Kong prisoners, is dead at 55 (NYT)Hong Kong's cabbies, long scorned and frustrated, face the end of an era (NYT)Activists’ trial leaves a stain on Hong Kong. It can’t be business as usual (The Washington Post editorial)Relevant countries need to stop emboldening anti-China rioters in Hong Kong: FM spokesperson (Xinhua)Hong Kong police issue bounties for six more overseas activists (AFP)Xi Jinping pledges full support for Hong Kong’s John Lee to reform economy ($SCMP)Macau
Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($SCMP)Sam Hou Fai elected chief executive-designate of Macau (Reuters)Macau's Portuguese strive to preserve their cultural heritage (FT)No horse racing, please, we're Chinese: the end of a venerable tradition in Macau (Bitter Winter)Hong-Kong-style National Security Law comes to Macau (Bitter Winter) Tibet
Gyalo Thondup, political operator and brother of the Dalai Lama, dies at 97 (NYT)China's large and mysterious dam project in Tibet is alarming neighbors and experts (NYT)The Dalai Lama shares thoughts on China and the future in a new book ($NYT)Earthquake in Tibet: the wrong condolences (Bitter Winter)How China is erasing Tibetan culture, one child at a time (NYT)Winter school break: China prevents Tibetan children from studying Tibetan language (Bitter Winter)Tibet earthquake: rescuers search for survivors after powerful quake kills 126 (The Guardian, Reuters, AFP)China to build world's largest hydropower dam in Tibet (BBC)China approves construction of hydropower project in lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River (Xinhua)In Dharamshala, nonviolent Tibetan leaders grapple with Chinese occupation, Gaza war (The Times of Israel)Xinjiang
UK politicians rally in support of Uyghurs and remember the Ghulja massacre 28 years ago (Bitter Winter)Never again, but not for the Uyghurs: a shameful omission (Bitter Winter)Relatives plead with Thailand not to deport 48 Uyghur men to China (The Guardian)'Hell on earth': China deportation looms for Uyghurs held in Thailand (BBC)Fearing deportation, Uyghurs held in Thailand go on hunger strike (NYT)China accuses Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger parent of 'inappropriate conduct' on Xinjiang ($SCMP)My friend and his 'expensive' girlfriend: How a Uyghur musician ended up in Syria (Bitter Winter)Uyghur fighters in Syria: A Uyghur view (Bitter Winter)China's Xinjiang completes world's longest expressway tunnel through challenging mountains (Xinhua)Three years after the Uyghur tribunal verdict: where do we go from there (Bitter Winter)Binnen-Mongolie
Words used for cultural genocide: how 'Northern Frontier' is replacing 'Inner Mongolia' (Bitter Winter)Unusual protest by Southern Mongolian herders ask for compensation after grazing ban (Bitter Winter)‘Northern frontier culture’: How China is erasing ‘Mongolia’ from Mongolian culture (The Strategist)Inner Mongolia emerges as model for Xi Jinping's ethnic affairs policy, but analysts warn of cultural 'erosion' (SCMP)Podcast: Why is the Communist Party redoubling its assimilation efforts? (The Economist)Christian inmate tortured in notorious Southern Mongolia prison (Bitter Winter)Anti-religious social credit targets Southern Mongolian peasants (Bitter Winter)China's push to create a single national identity. Inner Mongolia is the latest target (The Economist)China kidnaps Southern Mongolian dissident in Mongolia (Bitter Winter)Southern Mongolia: The CCP mobilizes traditional culture against religion (Bitter Winter)Een lach en een traan
Xi Jinping's vision drives China's winter sports boom (Xinhua)The $6.2 million banana: on art, bitcoins, and Chinese Communist capitalism (Bitter Winter)China roads blocked by thousands of cyclists in night quest for dumplings (BBC)Video: Two tonnes of live snakes seized by customs in China (Viralpress)China's censors are letting rapper Ye perform there. His fans are amazed (NYT)Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm (The Guardian)Beijing launches drone delivery service on the Great Wall (Xinhua)Chinese university to train students on marriage services (Xinhua)China's urban pets forecast to outnumber toddlers this year ($FT)Lucky phone numbers and wedding dates to dining don'ts, Chinese numerology superstitions (SCMP)
