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Slowdown, climbdown or meltdown, Asia sits on AI's fault line (Asia Times)What China winning the AI race could look like (Newsweek)Why India wants peace in Ukraine - and China ($Project Syndicate)A new BRICS is emerging - can it deliver? (Asia Times)China’s spy agency warns of AI risk to national security ($FT)*** What Iran's resilience tells China, Russia about US power (Asia Times)Thank China: Republicans and Communists agree on data centers (Gatestone Institute)Tesla and the Musks 'Chinamaxx' as rumors swirl over EV maker's plans ($Nikkei Asia)Manufacturing at Suez: China's hedge against fragile chokepoints (Alicia Garcia Herrero)'Crumbling into disarray': Xi warns global order is fracturing as US-China tensions threaten markets (Moneywise)Economie - Nationaal
How China's leader plans to win the future with AI (NYT)What China's vibe-coding capital can tell us about the AI boom (The New Yorker)How China's leader plans to win the future with AI (NYT)China's AI makes a great leap forward. But its economy is falling behind (NYT)Domestic auto sales collapse in August, NEV penetration hits new high (Trivium China)China's economy hits a weak spot: consumers aren't spending (Cryptopolitan)China growth outlook dims as real estate, retail pressure worsens ($Nikkei Asia)China must be properly scared for an AI slowdown to work (Asia Times)China’s investment picture – from bad to marginally better (Trivium China)*** What really made China rich (US-China Perception Monitor)Economie - Internationaal
How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West (The Washington Post)China boosts crude oil, LNG imports from Canada as Ottawa-Washington relations sour ($SCMP)Cui Fan: China certainly will not apologise for 'overcapacity' (Pekingnology)China's approach to AI in the Global South: selling the razor blades, not the razor ($Trivium China)India wants to buy fewer Chinese imports, but keeps needing more (NYT)Outside help: Chinese workers discover the leverage of foreign pressure (Pekingnology)Peak oil and pivots: The structural shift in China-GCC economic relations (EuroAsia and the World)Power of Siberia 2 pipeline talks stall over China-Russia price dispute: sources ($SCMP)Exports and imports surge on the back of elevated memory chip prices (Trivium China)China's export machine strengthens in August as US critiques trade imbalance ($SCMP)Internationale Relaties
Japan, suffering Xi's ire, hopes Trump can help temper China (NYT)Why a new Pakistan-China border pact has irked India (BBC)China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say (Reuters)Hong Kong bankrolling China's bid for global AI reachThe real BRICS summit happened in a side room with Modi and Xi (EuroAsia and the World)What the Modi Xi meet means for India China Relations (The India China Newsletter)Chinese leader pledges to help Brics nations with AI and smart manufacturing ($SCMP)China's anti-corruption law is going global. What does it mean for overseas firms? ($SCMP)Xi tells Modi China and India bear huge ‘responsibilities’ in world marked by flux (SCMP)In a club of emerging powers, China and India vie for influence (NYT)China - Verenigde Staten
Trump's Iran strategy has a China problem (Newsweek)The great AI gamble (Brookings)Trump-Xi summit bade farewell to 'China plus one' (Asia Times)Trump offered to sell arms to China, US ambassador says (NYT)The surprising reasons China is skeptical of AI safety calls (NYT)Xi comes bearing gifts: 2 giant pandas and 100,000 student visas (The Hill)In AI race, US models have the edge, but China has other advantages (NYT)The US and China are entering a new era (NYT)Xi Jinping says China, US should be partners, not rivals (CGTN)US and China agree to extend trade truce until January: Bessent ($Nikkei Asia)China - Europa
China seeks German help to stave off EU trade sanctions days before Xi-Trump summit ($SCMP)Caspar Veldkamp, nouveau visage de l'Union Européenne en Chine (Le Vent de la Chine)Europe's China Shock 2.0: Where does it go from here? (Brookings)German firms back tougher EU trade measures on China despite business risks (SCMP)Watching China in Europe - September 2026 (Noah Barkin)German industry presses Merz for tougher China policy (Reuters)China and the West: Blacklisted in Washington, welcomed in Madrid (Think BRICS)Video: China is quietly doing far more damage to European industry (EU MADE SIMPLE)Germans emerge as Europe's biggest China hawks as economic pain begins to bite (SCMP)Brussels vs Beijing: The new trade battle begins in Morocco and Turkey (Euronews)China - Nederland
WRR: innovatie alleen is niet genoeg, ook ander handelsbeleid is nodig (WRR)China's DUV lithography still lags ASML by four generations (Asia Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China targets strategic sectors in Netherlands, report warns, citing ASML (Nikkei Asia)Dutch trade minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma in China for high-stakes talks on tech war, tariff tensions (SCMP)Uyghur rights: Dutch Parliament hits Beijing where it hurts (Bitter Winter)The Hague City Council bans pro-Chinese Lantern Festival (Bitter Winter)The Netherlands vows to protect Uyghurs against China’s transnational harassment (Bitter Winter)The doppa on our heads, the homeland in our hearts: Amsterdam's lonely Uyghur on doppa day (Bitter Winter)Politiek
Après Xi, le déluge? (Newsweek)Why Xi Jinping should let pastor John Cao come home (Gatestone)Xi Jinping health rumors explained: what we know and don't know (Newsweek)CCP propaganda wants you: behind the curtain of China's global TV machine (Bitter Winter)China treats AI as comprehensive strategy and that makes a big difference (EuroAsia and the World)How China's spy boss signaled his agency is taking control of AI (Newsweek)China's AI double fear (Newsweek)Anthropic reveals massive Chinese anti-dissident AI-generated slander (Bitter Winter)Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 1. A leftist dissent (Bitter Winter)Social media in China is getting really dark (NYT)Maatschappij
'People had naive expectations': How MeToo has changed in China (The Guardian)China's new exit rules reveal a state that fears its own citizens (Bitter Winter)'People had naive expectations': How MeToo has changed in China (The Guardian)I went to Kyrgyzstan to find China's silent nomads (ChinaTalk)Low pay, job insecurity for China's trainee doctors a turn-off for young talent (SCMP)Asia's lonely economy of one (Asia Times)Fujian villagers halt attempted demolition of Guanyin statue (Bitter Winter)'If you defend house churches, we will shut down your law firm' (Bitter Winter)New reality for China's entertainment sector as AI drama goes prime time (SCMP)Why China's shrinking population may be a blessing, not a curse (SCMP)Militaire zaken
China pairs undersea drone mothership with multidomain war vision (Asia Times)Terminator now: China is exploring humanoid robots for war (Asia Times)Report: Chinese entities gave Iran satellite images before deadly strike on US base (The Times of Israel)50 years after Mao's death, Xi still draws power from 'barrel of a gun' ($Nikkei)From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat (Reuters)Chinese military university urged to revise AI course to 'educate for war' (SCMP)This obscure airport tells you a lot about China ($The Washington Post)America's scientific elite is fueling China's military machine (Newsweek)Chinese navy’s combat software guru Zhao Xiaozhe disappears from academy website (SCMP)PLA scientists say submarine cables carrying 99% of global data could be 'easy target' ($SCMP)Cultuur
Documentary films: 'I thought it didn't stand a cat's chance in hell': Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China (The Guardian) Food delivery rider wins China's top literary prize (BBC)Why are Chinese audiences going for Korean musicals rather than Western shows? ($SCMP)What the I Ching is really about ($SCMP)China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines (The Guardian)Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China (BBC)Plato goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping wants China to become a world leader in Greek and Latin studies (Bitter Winter)When the esoteric West sought the Dao - and discovered its own reflection (Bitter Winter)"Was I scared going back to China? No': Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home (The Guardian)Le Serpent se faufile, le Cheval hennit (Le Vent de la Chine)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
Cheaper CAR-T therapy drawing global cancer patients to China (Asia Times)5 years after sweeping ban, China's tutoring industry still bleeding parents dry ($SCMP)UK university teacher: 'We pretend to teach, they pretend to learn’. The reality of lecturing Chinese students (The Spectator)China’s humanoid robots aren’t smart enough to take your job – yet (Reuters)Robots smash human track records, including Bolt's 100m sprint — video (Reuters, China Central Television)When humanoids outrun Olympians, what comes next? (Nikkei Asia)Video - Chinese humanoid robot 'Superman' hits 28 mph and could outrun Usain Bolt (New York Post)Record graduate influx lifts China's youth jobless rate to 17.9% in July (SCMP)China’s shaping the future of open?source technology including AI (Asia Times)Video: A glimpse from China of AI's future (The Economist)Milieu
China's Net Zero advantage (Tablet)China's anti-desertification solutions contribute to a greener world (Xinhua)Central regulators tigthen environmental accountability for local leaders with new measures (Trivium China)Typhoon Narra: record flood waters submerge homes and force mass evacuations in China (Reuters)China planted 78 billion new trees - and seriously messed up its water cycle (Popular Mechanics)40% of flights grounded in Shanghai as long-lived Typhoon Dolphin moves north ($SCMP)China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives (BBC)Is China's climate returning to that of Tang dynasty golden age? Experts warn of a trap (SCMP)How climate change and tariffs help China raise more cattle (NYT)Cars swept away and trees toppled as Typhoon Noul brings flooding to southern China – video (Reuters, AP)Rampen en ongelukken
Climate change played role in Nepal-Tibet flood, study finds (BBC)China falls victim to own secrecy after Nepal's deadly floods ($Newsweek)31 dead, 531 missing after mudslide hits border port in China's Xizang (Xinhua)China stuurt DNA-deskundigen naar Nepal, dodental verder gestegen ($de Volkskrant)China says 261 foreigners from 23 countries are missing in Tibet flood (NYT)China's super-dam is becoming an upstream water bomb (Project Syndicate)Chinese rescuers find 'nothing but ruins' at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the dead (The Guardian, Reuters)Chinese Embassy in Nepal rebuts 'fake news' claims over devastating mudslide in border areas, urges cooperation for saving lives (Global Times)Chinese premier arrives at mudslide-hit area in Xizang (Xinhua)High-altitude glacier collapse in Nepal triggers mudslide disaster in China's Xizang: expert (Global Times)Schandalen
Zion's Light Church Case: lawyers face violence in court (Bitter Winter)Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering 'heroes and martyrs' (The Guardian)China sentences the founder op the collapsed real estate giant Evergrande to life in prison (NYT)Founder of China's property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison (BBC)84-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner dies in notorious Heilongjiang prison (Bitter Winter)Corruption: Another financial official bites the dust (Trivium China)China launches global tax hunt going back decades ($FT)Former president of China Development Bank under probe (Xinhua)Politburo member Ma Xingrui's downfall exposes shadowy network tied to Evergrande, Vanke ($Caixin)'Even Politburo members can be touched': what the latest purge says about Xi Jinping's China (The Guardian)Sport
China outlines new five-year plan for sports powerhouse drive (gov.cn)Why China's football problem is an economic problem (Sinification)Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100-meter record (NYT)With no team in World Cup, China fans rally around a red card-happy referee (BBC)The Chinese sports brand taking on Nike and Adidas (BBC)China views sports industry as new growth driver in next five years (Xinhua)Chinese government unveils plan to boost football development and youth training (Xinhua)Third division Chinese football team penalized for attempting to gift match officials (Global Times)Two securities officials fall to their deaths amid China's graft sweep ($Caixin)China's pro-wrestlers search for a star to bring the sport out of the shadows (The Guardian)Taiwan
Top US Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen warns Trump not to waver on Taiwan ahead of Xi meet ($SCMP)One issue that could upend fragile US-China ties: Taiwan arms (NYT)*** Taiwan in the US–EU–China triangle (The Balancing Act)Can Taiwan build drones? (ChinaTalk)Will the US become China’s indirect enforcer on Taiwan? (Asia Times)China boycotts a top art festival over Taiwan exhibition (NYT)China advises its citizens to leave Taiwan ally Eswatini over 'security risks' (BBC)Taiwan opens up about US security cooperation ahead of Xi-Trump summit (The Japan Times)How secure is Taiwan? The view from Taipei (Brookings)Inspired by Ukraine's battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion (NYT)Hongkong
Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil leaders jailed up to 7 years, as group is fined HK$1.5 million (SCMP)Joshua Wong admits instigating sanctions against Beijing, Hong Kong governments (SCMP)'Panic' as US immigrant visa interview pause hits at least 100 Hong Kong applicants (SCMP)These bookshops let Chinese readers question their country - now the doors are closing (BBC)Two Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists convicted in national security trial (BBC)Communist confession rituals return in Hong Kong (Bitter Winter)Yes, the Hong Kong of old is over (Project Syndicate)Hong Kong: booksellers raided, arrested for selling Emily Feng's 'Red Flowers' book (Bitter Winter)Five arrested after Hong Kong police raid independent bookshops (BBC)Hong Kong eateries welcome dogs as city relaxes ban (AP)Macau
Sinicization of religion reaches Macau (Bitter Winter)Then they came for Macau: The Au Kam San case cignals an escalation of repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's Grand Emperor hotel rips up lobby floor to sell off gold bricks (The Guardian)Macau's silent chill: the arrest of Au Kam San and the unseen repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($SCMP)Tibet
Smoke over Lhasa: an exhibition on the uprising that defined a generation (Bitter Winter)Tibet or Xizang? Why Real Madrid's condolences for mudslide victims hurt Chinese feelings (The Straits Times)The mudslide buried homes, the Communist Party buried the numbers (Bitter Winter)The Nepal-Tibet catastrophe: what is China hiding? (Bitter Winter)Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there (BBC)China's weaponization of Tibet's green revolution (Bitter Winter)Progress 'with Chinese characteristics': a threat to the Tibetan people? (Bitter Winter)Tibetan protesters in New Delhi denounce China with shaved heads and prayers (Euronews)In death, a Tibetan activist finally got the world's attention (NYT)Wang Huning tours Tibet to enforce the new Ethnic Unity Law (Bitter Winter)Xinjiang
The agreement Beijing did not erase (Bitter Winter)No Uyghur is beyond reach: AI and Beijing's new machinery of transnational repression (Bitter Winter)How Beijing turned Uyghur childhood into a state project (Bitter Winter)How Beijing turns human relationships into instruments of power (Bitter Winter)The August 4, 2008, Semen Road Uyghur attack: was it really 'terrorism'? (Bitter Winter)China's transnational anti-Uyghur strategy: new research by Zenz and Tohti (Bitter Winter)China's Ethnic Unity Law: Uyghurs in the diaspora already see its effects (Bitter Winter)The East Turkestan flag at the World Cup (Bitter Winter)Coming together against silence: reflections on the 3rd International Uyghur Forum, ten years after the camps (Bitter Winter)Uyghur fathers, Uyghur children: persecution and resilience across generations (Bitter Winter)Binnen-Mongolie
The Great Solar Wall in Inner Mongolia: China doubles down on its ambitious effort to tame deserts ($SCMP)Ga. Sharavjamts and the Mongolian myths China tried to silence (Bitter Winter)July 5: The Urumqi massacre’s unanswered questions (Bitter Winter)How Chinese propaganda erased Mongolian identity - and much more (Bitter Winter)Mongolian: The language Beijing wants to bury alive (Bitter Winter)A memoir on repression in China's Southern Mongolia - in an anti-West magazine (Bitter Winter)Genocide in Southern Mongolia: the return of a buried history (Bitter Winter)Inner Mongolia focuses on desertification control of Horqin sandy land (Xinhua)Words used for cultural genocide: how 'Northern Frontier' is replacing 'Inner Mongolia' (Bitter Winter)Unusual protest by Southern Mongolian herders ask for compensation after grazing ban (Bitter Winter)Een lach en een traan
Watch: Six-year-old girl from China sets new Rubik's Cube world record (BBC)Chinese restaurant chains put AI on the menu ($FT)An aging population in China inspires a new industry: Adult children for hire (The Washington Post)For Xi's critics, summit spectacle is fuel for jokes they can't tell (NYT)Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon (Reuters)Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet' (BBC)The Party bureaucrat who married his deceased sister (Bitter Winter)AI-gekte in China bereikt grens: overheid waarschuwt voor gevaarlijke app 'De Kreeft' ($de Volkskrant)Why are smugglers swarming East Africa for ants to send to China and Europe? ($SCMP)Group of dogs that went missing in China go viral after walking 17km home (The Guardian
