The Chinese government has recently been facing a trilemma of the tanking yuan, increased capital flight, and shrinking foreign exchange reserves. Rubbing salt into the wound is US president Donald Trump who never gives up calling Beijing a champion of currency manipulation.
Will 81-year-old Tenzin Gyatso be the last Dalai Lama? The question has been haunting millions of Tibetan Buddhists, the Chinese Communist rulers, and the international community ever since the religious leader hinted a few years ago that he might not reincarnate at all.
China now has a People’s Choice Award for judges.
Carrefour. Toyota. Honda. KFC. Lotte.
The epic battle of Changping is one of the best-known military campaigns in ancient China. The encirclement, concluded in 260 BC with a landslide victory by the State of Qin over the weaker State of Zhao, marks a turning point of the chaotic Warrior States period. In less than four decades, the ruler of Qin conquered all other independent states and became the first emperor of a unified China.
A few decades ago Wang Wei was personally lugging suitcases and backpacks across China’s southern border, trying to make his fledgling Hong Kong-based courier business a success. This week he became China’s third-richest man, thanks to his newly listed company doing well on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
When director Barry Jenkins first got into film school, he was gripped by a foreign film that was stylistically different to anything he had ever seen before. His favorite scene in particular was a love scene of a man playing with a toy plane on his girlfriend’s body, with American soul singer Dinah Washington’s What A Diff’rence A Day Made playing in the background.
As US president Donald Trump moves to kill the Affordable Care Act, known widely as Obamacare, confusion reigns about the Republicans’ replacement health coverage plan. In the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, British comedian John Oliver pointed out that even Republicans seem to be in the dark about the promised plan.
Sina Weibo started as China’s Twitter clone in 2009. Like other internet services in China, it filled the vacuum left by foreign offerings being driven out by government censorship. There’s basically no rivalry between the counterparts. They tap user bases that have zero overlap. The red-eyed creature of Sina Weibo’s logo is for China only, and the blue bird of Twitter is for the rest of the world.
North Korea has put its sole major ally, China, in an awkward position.
Thanks to its low and simple taxation, Hong Kong has topped the Heritage Foundation’s rankings of the world’s freest economies for 23 years in a row. An announcement made yesterday will do nothing to hurt its position.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has vowed for the first time that China should take the lead in shaping the “new world order” and safeguarding international security, one of the latest moves putting him in stark contrast to Donald Trump and the US president’s “America First” policy.
For most expats living in China, ride-hailing has become tougher since Uber quit the market last August.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite lines on the campaign trail and after his election as US president has been, ”Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with Russia?” The idea, as John Oliver puts it, is as dangerous as if you were to “walk right up to a bear and hug it.”
One of the darkest moments during Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement—a 79-day protest against Beijing’s decision over how the city’s leader would be elected in 2017—was the beating by police of a handcuffed pro-democracy protester, which was caught on camera.
Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed last week in Malaysia at age 46. The eldest son of late dictator Kim Jong-il had long been distant from North Korean politics and had indulged in a taste of casinos, high-end hotel bars, and other extravagances during the last decade of his exiled life.
Americans have become more negative toward China, and they’re increasingly anxious about the US’s power in the world.
During the recent Lunar New Year, Columbia University students with non-Western names found their name plates ripped off from dormitory doors at several residential halls. The vandalism, which especially targeted East Asian names, stressed out students already alarmed over “the growing climate of xenophobia,” wrote a school official in an email to Asian student groups.
Two steamed buns and a bowl of boiled cabbage, carrots, or unpeeled potatoes—Qian Xiaohong had boring food options in jail.
Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping finally talked.
Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping have made progress in their relationship.
Yesterday (Feb.6), Forbes China released its latest annual ranking of the top 100 outstanding businesswomen in China. Topping the list was Dong Mingzhu, president of Gree Electric Appliances, the country’s biggest air-conditioner maker.
Two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has spoken with 18 foreign heads-of-state, either by phone or in person. Xi Jinping’s name is conspicuously missing.
You’ve probably seen some of the weird anime “drawings” of celebrities—including of Beyoncé, Mark Zuckerberg, and Donald Trump—flooding social media in recent weeks. The images come courtesy of a new “hand-drawn” feature introduced this month in Meitu, a popular Chinese app for selfies and photo-editing.
