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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…