A weekly digest of the stories you should be following in China this week, plus exclusive analysis, written by Foreign Policy’s senior editor and former Beijing correspondent James Palmer. Delivered Wednesday.Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.The highlights this week: An offensive Weibo post triggers a backlash in India, what to believe about China’s population numbers,…
China expressed concern on Wednesday over India’s move to not grant any Chinese firm permission to participate in 5G trials in the world’s second-largest internet market as the two neighboring nations struggle to navigate business ties amid their geo-political tensions.India’s Department of Telecommunications earlier this week approved over a dozen firms’ applications to conduct a…
image copyrightWeTV image captionLelush’s deadpan expressions have since graced many a meme in ChinaBeing kicked out of a reality TV show might not be something to celebrate, but for one Russian man it was a dream come true – and the latest twist in his unlikely journey to becoming an icon for Chinese slackers.Vladislav Ivanov…
A general view shows the buildings of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, April 21, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas PeterThe resumption of student visa applications at U.S. missions in China got off to an acrimonious start this week when netizens took exception to an American embassy social media post they interpreted as likening Chinese students to dogs.Former…
Global foreign direct investment flows ebbed to a 15-year low last year and China, one of the few major economies to eke out growth, overtook the United States as the top destination, OECD data showed on Friday.As the coronavirus wreaked havoc on the global economy, global FDI flows dropped 38% in 2020 to $846 billion,…
HomeAsiaNews30 APR 2021Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark (pictured) used the vendor’s Q1 earnings call yesterday (29 April) to vow it will bid in the next round of network tenders in China later this year.The CEO highlighted the competitiveness of China, a market he previously stated was an important target for Nokia.“We will participate in the upcoming…
New York-listed BlueCity, the developer of Chinese LGBTQ+ dating app Blued, has obtained a license to launch an internet hospital in China focusing on men’s healthcare.WHAT THEY DOHe Health, the company’s healthcare platform for men, started promoting men’s health and HIV prevention awareness in 2019. Since then, it expanded its services to the field of…
HONG KONG — As China recovered from the worst of its battle against the coronavirus pandemic and life gradually returned to normal, the country’s airlines were able to do what other global aviation companies were unable to amid border closures and lockdowns: cash in on their large base of domestic passengers.But while passenger traffic for…
Credit: Flickr/Zach SternChina is the quintessential surveillance state: cameras perch on every street corner and bots monitor every corner of the internet. Chinese officials believe these measures will enable them to anticipate and preempt threats to the regime. But might Beijing’s growing reliance on surveillance actually weaken the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s hold on power?China’s…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Landslides near a construction site of a $1.5 billion Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have killed at least three people, the disaster agency said on Friday, amid fears that more may be missing.The dam has faced criticism from environmental groups because it is in the heart of the Batang Toru…
