To most people, cockroaches are disgusting pests. To some, the insects are delicious fried snacks. To a few people, they are medicine. A Chinese farm…
LONG SHOT
China’s crackdown on crypto hasn’t stopped its tech giants from flirting with blockchain
China’s big three internet giants, Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba, are battling for supremacy in almost every front of the country’s tech space. It’s no wonder…
GOOD OR EVIL
This AI expert found it “both exciting and scary” that Xi Jinping reads his book
Xi Jinping’s bookshelf includes not only classics on communism but also works on artificial intelligence, as TV viewers spotted during his new year’s speech this…
FORWARD TO VICTORY
China treated Kim Jong-un to a Maoist ballet classic about its army
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un welcomed a senior envoy from Beijing in Pyongyang over the weekend, in the latest sign of the warming relationship between…
FARM BASE
China is taking aim at American farmers in its trade war with the US
In the escalating trade war between China and the US, Beijing is taking aim at American farmers, a key support group for Donald Trump. Today…
THE BIG PICTURE
Doubtful of China’s economic numbers? Satellite data and AI can help
The Chinese government is notorious for doctoring its official statistics, from using messed-up methodology, to not reporting some key metrics, to out-and-out fabrication. Last year,…
#IAMGAY
China’s LGBT people came out as a protest against an online ban on gay content. And it worked
China’s answer to Twitter, Sina Weibo, today (April 16) withdrew its short-lived ban on homosexual content, after people came out as gay to protest the…
WAR OF THE CENTURY
A brutal battle among China’s food-delivery apps is resulting in practically free meals
China’s tech companies are known to offer especially generous subsidies to take over niche markets. The upshot for users is that, from time to time,…
NEW ERA
China’s web censors have a new target: vulgar jokes
On China’s tightly controlled internet, politics has long been a no-go area, with censors watching for even the slightest criticism of the ruling elite. Now…
"WIN"
Xi Jinping vowed to lower tariffs on American cars after Trump called them “stupid”
Escalating a war of words between the US and China over trade, Donald Trump took to Twitter yesterday (April 9) to lash out at Chinese…
GOING FOR THE JUGULAR
Trump boasts of a “great future” for China and the US. China isn’t so convinced
As the trade war between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump expressed rare optimism in a tweet yesterday (April 8), which said that China…
SAVAGE
When China’s tech titans fumble, their users make them eat their words
Making fun of the president or any Communist Party official on China’s tightly controlled internet might be near impossible. Tech execs, however, don’t get a…
