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Kim Jong Un has President Trump right where he wants him (The Washington Post)Trump's wars: The 3 most concerning possibilities: Middle East, North Korea and China (Axios)US scrapped training exercise with South Korea involving B-52s (The Wall Street Journal)Kim's choice for Trump: the summit or Bolton’s approach (Axios)Maximum pressure on North Korea is gone, and it isn’t coming back (The Washington Post)North Korea officials reportedly reading 'Fire and Fury' and 'Art of the Deal' to understand Trump (Newsweek)Art of the deal: Is Kim Jong Un beating Trump at his own game? (Newsweek)China urges North Korea not to cancel Trump summit (AP)North Korean threats are 'splash of cold water' on expectations for talks ($$The New York Times)Deciphering Kim Jong Un's motives (Foreign Affairs)Economie - Nationaal
ZTE mess shows need to change the 'Chinese way of doing business' (South China Morning Post)Average salary of China’s urban employees reaches $11,000 in 2017 (People's Daily Online)China's economic growth story will be cut short under Xi Jinping, research firm predicts (South China Morning post) 14 May 2018With jail sentences and corporate flameouts, China is tackling its debt ($$The New York Times)Chinese mainland has 38 nuclear power units in operation(Xinhua)Wanda quietly launches Qingdao movie metropolis (China Film Insider)China to cut US$9.5 billion in taxes for small and micro enterprises, high-tech firms (China Briefing)China's sprawling Xiong'an: easier said than done ($$Caixin)China smartphone sales power down in first quarter (Caixin)'Made in China' progresses as global industry undergoes transformation (Xinhua)Economie - Internationaal
Foreign firms may be invited to join 'Made in China 2025' scheme, sources say (South China Morning Post)Iran asks Chinese oil buyers to maintain imports after US sanctions - sources (Reuters)Chinese telco ZTE bribed its way to greatness, now focuses on Australia (Financial Review, Australia)Chinese public opinion turning against open trade? (SupChina)The Internet revolution China intends to lead (China Media Project)China forex reserves drop amid dollar strength (Seeking Alpha)Nieuwe broeders: China en Israël (Het Financieel Dagblad)The People’s Republic of Protectionism (Barron's)Amazon is avoiding its China mistakes in India (Axios)Brazil becomes top crude oil supplier in April for China's independent refiners (Platts)Internationale Relaties
Chinese-Vatican relations: Church building ($$The Economist)CPC dialogue with world political parties to highlight opening-up policy, political firmness (Global Times)China and the international order (RAND Corporation)Multinationals bow to China's political sensitivities (Financial Times)Dodgy report disturbs Sino-Indian ties (Global Times)Foreign fishing vessels expelled from S.China Sea by joint forces patrol (Global Times)How Chinese mining in the Himalayas may create a new military flashpoint with India (South China Morning Post)China's love-hate relationship with Japan is love again. Ahem (South China Morning Post)Duterte wants to be friends, why isn't China playing ball? (South China Morning Post)New milestone in China-Portugal ties (CGTN)China - Verenigde Staten
China, US near deal to settle ZTE sales ban (CGTN)China secures core interests in trade talks (Global Times)FTSE 100 hits record high as US and China call trade war truceUS and China halt imposing import tariffs (BBC)Peking stemt in met extra invoer uit VS (Het Financieele Dagblad)China agrees to import more from US, no sign of $200 billion figure (Reuters)Conflict VS en China draait vooral om technologische suprematie (Het Financieele Dagblad)China agrees to buy more US goods and services ($$The Wall Street Journal)How tech may trip the Thucydides Trap (The Washington Post)How energy deals could cut the US-China trade deficit (Axios)China - Europa
Merkel to seek China as free-trade ally on Beijing trip (Bloomberg)Europe heads east, Asia heads west (Inside Story)Amid high expectation, Belt and Road Initiative brings more win-win results to Europe (Xinhua)Eurovision 2018: Chinese channel barred from airing contest (BBC)With Asia's rise, West must let go of Eurocentrism ($$Caixin)Why Europe is afraid of the New Silk Roads (Asia Times)Blue China: Navigating the Maritime Silk Road to Europe (European Council on Foreign Relations)China's gift to Europe is a new version of crony capitalism (The Guardian)Europe's new 'Eastern bloc': Beijing's diplomatic masterstroke has put former Soviet countries on a collision course with Brussels (Politico)Trump's trade offensive edges EU into China’s warm embrace (Asia Times)China - Nederland
China, Netherlands willing to strengthen cooperation on B&R (Xinhua) Chinese raket met Nederlandse apparatuur naar achterkant van de maan (NOS)Chinese student moet meer gaan betalen (Het Financieele Dagblad)Marietje Schaake over Chinese handelspolitiek: 'Het Westen wordt uitgespeeld' (Het Financieele Dagblad)Nederlandse dirigent Harmen Cnossen brengt muzikale vrijheid aan Chinese musici (NPO)Universiteiten van Leiden, Delft en Rotterdam willen toe naar gezamenlijke samenwerking met China (Universiteit Leiden)Universiteit Wageningen verwacht onderzoekspark te ontwikkelen in China ($$Het Financieele Dagblad)China, Netherlands agree to exploit advantages of complementarities (Xinhua)Rutte balanceert in China tussen woeste toon Trump en verzoenende toon Xi ($$de Volkskrant)Chipmaker Nexperia is blij met zijn Chinese eigenaren en houdt ze op afstand (Het Financieele Dagblad)Politiek
Chinese legal maverick, facing political gales, bides his time (The New York Times)Xi Jinping's omnipresent propaganda empire (Axios)China launches crackdown on illegal cultural organizations (Xinhua)China escalates nationwide crackdown on Protestant churches (Radio Free Asia)Communist Party's suppression of lawyers is a preemptive attack against an imaginary threat (China Change)From the Little Red Book to the Big White one (The Times Literary Supplement)Lenovo founder in public backlash for ‘unpatriotic 5G standards vote’ (technode)Minister of Justice: advancing law-based governance will not shake Party’s leadership (Trivium)Up to 16 more lawyers in China face disbarment or inability to practice (China Change)Podcast: Small NGOs particularly vulnerable under new NGO law (SoundCloud)Maatschappij
China considers ending birth limits as soon as this year (Bloomberg)Firms in Beijing seek domestic helpers from poor areas amid shortage (Ecns.cn)Social credit system must bankrupt discredited people: former official (Global Times)More 'caring' system required to take care of aging population (Shine)China's LGBT community treads cautiously amid intolerance (Reuters)China firm gets lift with drug for '140 million impotent men' (AFP)Price of freedom rises (slightly) ($$Caixin)Naked city: lost in Shanghai with Liu Tao - in pictures (The Guardian)Various Chinese regions stop LGBT right events (Global Times)China raises minimum standard of basic pensions (Xinhua)Militaire zaken
South China Sea dispute: China lands bombers on Woody Island (BBC)China lands nuclear strike-capable bombers on South China Sea islands (Agencies)Chinese military projects 'not funded' by Australian university grants (The Guardian)China's second aircraft carrier concludes first sea trials (Xinhua)Scientists find materials in S.China Sea needed in military, aerospace equipment (Global Times)Iran's FM leaves Tehran for Beijing for talks on nuclear deal (Xinhua)China, India & Pakistan: The need for a trilateral nuclear dialogue (IAPS Dialogue)India wants to 'permanently patrol' the route to China has deployed Su-30 fighter (Fin Cnn News)The Chinese company selling Iranian sniper gear around the world (Daily Beast)China has put missiles on islands in the South China Sea (The Economist)Cultuur
Archaeologist who uncovered China's 8,000-man terra cotta army dies at 82 (NPR)China to use AI and drones to protect Great Wall (Xinhua)Ai Weiwei's Little Blue Book on the refugee crisis (The New York Times)Time-honored hutongs in Beijing restored to original beauty (Women of China)Forbidden City to move an extra 130,000 antiquities underground for safekeeping (Global Times)China to ban auctions of stolen cultural relics (CRI Online)Chinese pool personal money and resources to buy back artifacts lost overseas (Global Times)Summer Palace Bronze auctioned for 410,000 pounds (chinadaily.com.cn)China urges boycott of British auction of 'looted' ancient bronze vessel (Reuters)Chinese netizens call for return of stolen ancient bronze vessel set for auction in UK (Global Times)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
China launches relay satellite to explore Moon's far side (Xinhua)The birth of Westlake University ($$Caixin)Year-long innovation expo unveiled (Shine)Authorities try to end China’s age-old worship of top scorers in gaokao exams (Global Times)China high school uses facial recognition to ensure students pay attention in class (Global Times)Overseas study no longer a guarantee of success (China Daily)The robotics industry in China (China Briefing)How China's tech revolution threatens Silicon Valley (The Atlantic)Inside Shanghai's robot bank: China opens world's first human-free branch (The Guardian)China sees booming robotics industry (Xinhua)Milieu
China is heading towards a water crisis: will government changes help?Ministry of Ecology and Environment lays down the law (Axios)Xi stresses efforts to build beautiful countryside with pleasant living environment (Xinhua)Beijing fears relapse in anti-smog battle ($$Caixin)Xi'an begins using solar air purifier to battle smog (Global Times)Left behind by China's green dream ($$The Washington Post)Shake-up for China's ocean management (chinadialogue ocean)Environmental NGOs flexing muscles (Trivium)China becomes driving force for global surge in solar energy investment: UN spokesman (Xinhua)Chinese polluters start to pay environmental tax (Xinhua)Rampen en ongelukken
10 years ago in Sichuan, a quake killed 69,000. Should China be thankful? ($$The New York Times)Video: Sichuan earthquake, the ghost town visited by millions (BBC)Death toll in NW China knife attack rises to 9 (Xinhua)China karaoke bar fire kills 18 in Yingde (BBC)China dragon boat accident leaves 17 dead (BBC)North Korea bus crash kills 32 Chinese tourists (BBC)Fears parts of world's longest sea bridge are floating away (The Guardian)Who killed more: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? (New York Review of Books)Shanghai van hits 18 pedestrians outside Starbucks (BBC)Burning oil tanker 'sinks off China' after one week (BBC)Schandalen
A hearing with Chinese characteristics: How the Beijing Lawyers’ Association helps persecute human rights lawyers (China Change)Chinese doctor jailed for calling traditional medicine 'poison' issues apology (The Guardian)China rejects appeal on behalf of Nobel Prize winner's widow (AP)'Pangolin banquet' official sentenced to 10 years for unrelated charges (Caixin)Writers urge China to end house arrest of Liu Xia, wife of Nobel laureate (Reuters)China: security guards assault women attending LGBT event (The Guardian)Former head of China's Anbang jailed for 18 years (BBC)How Lawyer Wang Yu was made to denounce the American Bar Association's human rights award in 2016 (China Change)Millionaire woman who adopted 118 orphans detained (China Daily)Why Costa Ricans are being paid to marry Chinese migrants (BBC)Sport
Chinese Football Association to ban tattoo from players: report (Global Times)North Korea hails 'openhearted talk' in unprecedented meeting with South Korean envoys (The Japan Times)Project 2022: China building winter sports culture from scratch (Axios China)First rule of Chinese fight club: no karaoke (The New York Times)Can China save face on the slopes and join the alpine aristocracy? (China Policy Institute)Li Haotong, China's best male golfer, is putting the world on notice (SupChina)China to build 30,000 additional schools emphasizing soccer training by 2025 (China Plus)Manchester United are China's most popular digital team (BBC)Ways in which Chinese football teams circumvent every rule (SupChina)After years of big spending, Chinese soccer goes quiet (AP)Taiwan
Do American companies need to take a stance on Taiwan? (ChinaFile)Taiwan deepening defense cooperation with US dangerous, say Chinese experts (Global Times)Taiwan accuses World Health Organisation of bowing to Beijing over invitation to top health meeting (AFP)China insists on 'one China' policy for foreign airlines (Caixin)Taiwan refusing to recognize the consensus on the one-China principle shuts itself out of conference: FM (China Daily)Why China hopes Taiwan's loss of support from Dominican Republic will give the US pause (South China Morning Post)Taiwan loses diplomatic ally as Dominican Republic switches ties to China (BBC)Taiwan says China dangled $3 billion to grab ally Dominican Republic (Reuters)Taiwan seems to be benefiting from Trump's presidency. So why is no one celebrating? (The Washington Post)Chinese air force releases promotional video recapping Taiwan patrols (Xinhuanet)Hongkong
What Hong Kong scientists' questions about mainland funding reveal (South China Morning Post)Leading Hong Kong independence activist convicted of rioting, sentencing to come (Reuters)Government rewrites history of Hong Kong’s 1997 handover, one inconvenient phrase at a time (South China Morning Post)Changes to Hong Kong history textbooks offer lessons that must be learned (South China Morning Post)China anti-corruption drive stretches to Hong Kong (Financial Times)Africans fight Hong Kong prejudice with football (BBC)Free speech fears as Beijing attacks Hong Kong professor ($$Financial Times)Asia's bastion of free speech? Move aside, Hong Kong, it's Taiwan now ($$The New York Times)Public fears pressure from Beijing is leading to end of press freedom in Hong Kong (South China Morning Post)Hong Kong law lecturer 'threat to national sovereignty': Beijing (Radio Free Asia)Macau
Macau's fortunes shine as April gaming revenues surge 28 per cent (South China Morning Post)Writer Jung Chang entry in Macau not guaranteed by authorities (Macau News)Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past (The Guardian)26 elected as new legislators of China's Macao: preliminary results (Xinhua)Why Macau is less demanding of democracy than Hong Kong (The Economist)Macau enlists Chinese army as authorities struggle with typhoon fallout (Reuters)Macau former chief prosecutor sentenced to 21 years in prison (Xinhua)Macau legislators at China's parliament ask Kim Jong Who? (Reuters)Significant development since Macao's return to China (CCTV)Macau's former chief prosecutor charged with nearly 2,000 crimes (BBC)Tibet
China opposes US resolution on Tibet issue (Xinhua)Tibet group thanks Sweden in 'Chinese spy' case (BBC)Sweden charges man with spying on Tibetan exiles for China (Reuters)Dalai Lama calls on Tibetans to remain united as India drifts toward China (Reuters)India spurns the Dalai Lama's celebration, worried about China (The New York Times)Tibetan temples conduct exams on Constitution, rules (Global Times)The silence of the state: The Jokhang fire and the response of the Chinese government (highpeakspureearth.com)Yokhang, sacred Tibetan monastery in Lhasa, hit by fire (BBC)Police asks Tibetans for Dalai Lama tips (Global Times)Impoverished southern Xinjiang residents relocated to boost stability (Global Times)Xinjiang
All mosques should raise national flag: China Islamic Association (Global Times)China’s repugnant campaign to destroy a minority people (The Washington Post)Popular Uyghur singer's whereabouts unknown, believed detained in Xinjiang re-education camp (Radio Free Asia)China's gulag for Muslims (SupChina)Xinjiang implementing measures for the PRC counter-terrorism law (China Law Translate)Survivors of China's far west political camps detail ordeal (AP)What really happens in China's 're-education' camps ($$The New York Times)Huawei's partnership with China on surveillance technology in Xinjiang raises concerns for foreign users (The Globe and Mail)Visiting officials occupy homes in Muslim region (Human Rights Watch)How Stalin elevated the Chinese Communist Party to power in Xinjiang in 1949 (Wilson Center)Binnen-Mongolie
Within pain there is also hope (China Digital Times)China approves coal mine project in Inner Mongolia (Xinhua)China builds Mongolian language database with cloud computing (Xinhua)800 years after Genghis Khan, Chinese Mongolians forge new prosperity (Xinhua)Southern Mongolia: Peaceful protesters met with violence by Chinese government (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Southern Mongolia: Herder community activist to be prosecuted for statements on land rights (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Southern Mongolia: Four herdsmen arrested for online petition over unpaid subsidies (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization)Incredible photos show Inner Mongolian labourers battling brutal conditions (Daily Mail)Ethnic Mongolian activist detained after tweet about land dispute (Radio Free Asia)Parents protest curbs on Mongolian language teaching in Chinese schools (Radio Free Asia)Een lach en een traan
More owners willing to spend big on pet burial (China Daily)Academy apologizes for Taoist blessings at nuclear project (Global Times)Chinese passenger pulls open escape hatch to get some fresh air while waiting on ‘stuffy’ plane (South China Morning Post)China's holy sites list on the stockmarket: Monks v markets ($$The Economist)China family deploy stranger to pose as dead daughter for 13 years to protect mother from grief (Telegraph)No joke: have China's censors gone too far with ban on humour app? (The Guardian)To dampen jaywalking, city turns to water spray (China Daily)A giant indoor farm in China is breeding 6 billion cockroaches a year. Here's why (South China Morning Post)After marrying, I am happy with my new Chinese in-laws (Global Times)Chinese man caught by facial recognition at pop concert (BBC)
