June 9, 2023
In a now-deleted Weibo post, the comedy writer said a company that contacted her last year sent her a long list of taboo topics. It included senior party leaders, officials, extramarital affairs, homosexuality, gambling, poverty and the pandemic. Then there was a series of meetings where the potential impact of the jokes was discussed –
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Advertising When social media users create and share viral dances and impressive stunts, they may not be aware that those same digital platforms are at the epicenter of a geopolitical power struggle. In particular, the emergence of TikTok, a platform owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, has added a new dimension to the complexity of
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Advertising Beijing’s recent decision to ban the use of US firm Micron’s semiconductors in critical infrastructure equipment has further embroiled South Korea in a US-China conflict over the development of China’s domestic semiconductor industry. However, it also affects how the United States and its allies deal with economic coercion. The controversy surrounding Micron is rooted
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China’s manufacturing activity contracted for the second straight month in May, the latest sign that the country’s economic recovery is slowing, according to official data released on Wednesday. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the official Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index – a key indicator of manufacturing output – fell to 48.8 this month, below
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Chinese loans with secret and unforgiving conditions threaten to paralyze many developing countries, whose concessions to China could begin to have repercussions for US national security. “The Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to expand its influence in the Pacific has been coercion and deal-making,” Joel Rubin, who served in both party administrations and was most recently
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For Anna Li, this year was the worst she could remember looking for a job in China – even harder than during the pandemic. “I have been looking for a job for six months. I’m very tired, but I haven’t received an offer yet,” said the 25-year-old graduate from the wealthy eastern province of Shandong,
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The first Chinese-made C919 passenger aircraft stands on the runway before the first commercial flight from Shanghai to Beijing at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport on May 28, 2023. an event in the nation’s years-long efforts to compete with Western rivals in the air. (Photo by CNS/AFP) / China OUT BEIJING, May 28, 2023 (AFP). China’s first
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A new development bank, the Shanghai-based lender better known as the “BRICS Bank”, is in talks with Saudi Arabia to admit the country as its ninth member. sanctions. The addition of the kingdom will strengthen ties between the bank, created by the world’s largest emerging economies as an alternative to the Western-led Bretton Woods institutions,
READ MOREA watch that once belonged to China’s last emperor, the Qing Dynasty, whose life is the basis of the Oscar-winning movie The Last Emperor, sold for a record 49 million Hong Kong dollars ($6.2 million) on Tuesday at an auction in Hong Kong. . An Asian collector based in Hong Kong called and bought a
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Advertising In the ongoing technology struggle between the United States and China over the semiconductor industry, the US has caused massive disruptions to the semiconductor supply chain. The main goal is clear: to ensure that while the world moves forward, China stays behind. Washington October 2022 export bans have undermined the purchasing as well as
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