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Hefei's Ganquan Church: Pastor Zhou and Elder Ding sentenced to 4.5 and 4 years (Bitter Winter)America and China at the edge of ruin (Foreign Affairs)How the world sees America: Davos, China and the fading of an old world order, with the historian Adam Tooze (NYT)Xi Jinping Thought on Demography: how to lose a population and call it progress ((Bitter Winnter)*** China's global leadership would be different (Asia Times)Australia's confidence in Trump's US has evaporated. What will it take for the alliance to rupture? (The Guardian)Japan, Philippines refine security pact with eye on China (Asia Times)Trump is making a power play in Latin America. China is already there (NYT)*** The Maduro effect: regime change fears grip Asia's autocrats after US raid on Venezuela ($SCMP)*** Inside US plans to reopen WWII air bases for war with China (Newsweek)Economie - Nationaal
How China built a chip Iindustry, and why it's still not enough (NYT)Provinces scale back economic growth ambitions (Trivium China)The Chinese planemaker taking on Boeing and Airbus (BBC)Chinese automaker Geely unveils ambitious 2030 growth target (Trivium China)Seven trillion and one reasons China stocks will keep rallying (Asia Times)China needs to invest bigger at home to sustain prosperity (Asia Times)Xi wants top officials focused on manufacturing (Trivium)China's solar giants warn of record $5bn loss despite anti-price war bid ($Nikkei)Hainan, the Chinese island where dreams of real estate glory never die (NYT)IMF raises China’s 2026 growth forecast to 4.5%, citing US ‘truce’ and stimulus roll-out ($SCMP)Economie - Internationaal
Social media’s 'becoming Chinese' trend can only be a force for good (SCMP)Trump, Netanyahu agreed to crackdown on Iran oil sales to China as part of pressure campaign against Tehran - report (TOI)China to grant zero-tariff treatment to 53 African countries (ECNS)Monthly new energy vehicle exports hit all-time high (Trivium China)Chinese Embassy in Israel refutes false reports claiming 'China bans investment in Israel' (Global Times)China's Autonomous Vehicle companies are expanding globally and pushing to control the supply chain (ChinaTalk)Chinese billionaire in talks to buy Israeli irrigation giant Netafim, valued at $1.5 billion (Jerusalem Post)Supply chains and China's Hormuz imperative (Asia Times)Liu Shijin urges RMB internationalisation to boost consumption, balance trade (Pekingnology)Chinese firms are scoping out overseas property – but what is catching their eye? ($SCMP)Internationale Relaties
Sydney businessman falsely claimed security advice given to Chinese spies came from Kevin Rudd, court hears (Australian Associated Press)Formations of thousands of Chinese fishing boats stir worries in Japan ($Nikkei)Chinese tourists shun Japan over lunar new year holiday as rift deepens (The Guardian, Reuters)China is hitting Japan where it hurts. Will PM Takaichi give in? (BBC)The Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Middle East: A conversation with Eva Seiwert (The China-MENA Newsletter)Diplomatic feud with China weighs on Japan's economy (NYT)Is this a 'very Chinese time in your life'? The trend boosting China's soft power (BBC)China-Ukraine relations should maintain stable, healthy development: Chinese FM (Xinhua)A puzzle wrapped in barbed wire: Why China attacked India in 2020 (Bitter Winter)Japan detains a Chinese boat and its captain amid rift with Beijing (NYT)China - Verenigde Staten
Redrawing global boundaries? The United States, China, and the viability of spheres of influence in the 21st century (Brookings)China President sends letter to Iowa friend (Newsweek)As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower (BBC)Is Xi Jinping right? (Appia Institute)China unfazed as US rallies global critical minerals bloc (Asia Times)China's green push colliding with America’s fossil fixation (Asia Times)TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat (The Guardian)Could the US unlock China's rare earths grip with AI and quantum computing? ($SCMP)China dreams of challenging US dollar supremacy (Newsweek)US takes stock of critical minerals - The weekly recap (Trivium China)China - Europa
What's behind UK-China border security deal? (Asia Times)EU probes Shein over sale of illegal products, addictive design (Reuters)China, Europe are partners, not systemic rivals: Chinese FM (Xinhua)Henry Huiyao Wang on beyond blocs: Europe and China will not align nor compete, but selectively cooperate (Pekingnolgy)Der China-Schock (Watching China in Europe)Starmer faces a hysterical backlash over new Chinese embassy (SCMP)Watching China in Europe - February 2026 (Noah Barkin)China-Europe ties gain new momentum amid global turbulence (Xinhua)Alarm raised over Chinese CCTV cameras guarding 'symbol of democracy' Magna Carta (The Guardian)Analysis - Starmer hopes his China trip will begin the thaw after recent ice age (The Guardian)China - Nederland
Slimme meters Kritiek op miljoenenorder van netbeheerders in China: 'Goedkoop is duurkoop' (rtl.nl)Chip company Nexperia plotted to send technology to China, ex-CEO says (NYT)Nieuwe escalatie in Nexperia-vete: China publiceert namen Nederlandse spionnen ($de Volkskrant)Dutch economy minister reportedly admits China's counterreaction on Nexperia 'blindsided' him; expert says he still shifts blame (Global Times)Nederlands-Chinese conflict over Nexperia loopt verder op: China spreekt van 'samenzwering' ($de Volkskrant)China urges Netherlands to swiftly resolve Nexperia issue: commerce ministry (Xinhua)Netherlands suspends state seizure of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia (The Guardian)'Karremans gedroeg zich als een dode eend met harde snavel' ($de Volkskrant) China bevestigt versoepeling exportverbod voor chipmaker Nexperia ($de Volkskrant)China resumes some chip exports, easing fears of a global crunch (NYT)Politiek
In Xi's purge of the military, a search for absolute loyalty (NYT)Beware of 'political swindlers', China's cadres warned ahead of next year's leadership change ($SCMP)What does Xi Jinping want? (The New Yorker)What will Xi Jinping do next? (Rediff)A Chinese Christian's charitable endeavor and spiritual dilemma (Bitter Winter)Three-Self Church ready to enforce the new propaganda regulations (Bitter Winter)Ruptures in China's leadership could be due to paranoia and power plays (NYT)Commerce and Party Congress (Appia Institute)Will Xi Jinping be removed before 2027 amid military purge? Millions of dollars bet on prediction markets say this (Benzinga)China's National Procurators' Meeting: prosecutors as priests of the gospel according to Xi (Bitter Witter)Maatschappij
Bij het Chinese Nieuwjaarsgala moet alles wijken wat niet genoeg blijk geeft van 'positieve energie' ($de Volkskrant)The persecution of the Church of Almighty God from bad to worse (Bitter Winter)China hopes for a bumper lunar new year as world's biggest migration begins (The Guardian)China's demographic crisis has moved from theory to fact (Asia Times)Fujian: Police mobilized to demolish village-funded temple, several injured (Bitter Winter)Move fast, but obey the rules: China's vision for dominating AI (NYT)n China, is 'family' becoming a legal shield for rape? ($SCMP)Falun Gong 'self-immolations': 25 years since a 'deepfake' on Tiananmen Square (Bitter Winter)China's crackdown on spiritual movement Gaia Earth Core: consumer protection or authoritarian control? (Bitter Winter)'RoboCops' deployed in Chinese cities (Newsweek)Militaire zaken
Deep in China's mountains, a nuclear revival takes shape (NYT)Xi Jinping makes rare reference to recent military purge (BBC)What the Indian army chief's memoir tells us about the PLA (The India China Newsletter)Xi's military purge is not really about corruption (Asia Times)*** China's disappearing generals (NYT)China's top general probe to 'remove obstacles' in military: state media (CNA)Was General Zhang Youxia one of the 'big rats' eating China's military budget? ($SCMP)China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed (The Guardian)Sword of loyalty: decoding Xi Jinping's perpetual military purge (Asia Times)The Guardian view on China's military purge: the risks grow in an age of strongmen (Editorial)Cultuur
"Was I scared going back to China? No': Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home (The Guardian)Le Serpent se faufile, le Cheval hennit (Le Vent de la Chine)How old is Chinese civilisation? It really dates back 8,000 years, an archaeologist argues (SCMP)China steps up cultural heritage protection to keep its past alive for the future (Xinhua)China's cultural advantage in the AI Age (Asia Times)Al jaar vast voor 'beledigend' kunstwerk (Amnesty International)Was Venice's winged lion made in China and delivered by Marco Polo's family? ($SCMP)Xi projects power at military parade with Putin and Kim (Reuters)An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show (BBC)Tourist damages two of China's terracotta warriors after jumping fence (AFP)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
Don't trust the rankings that put China's universities on top (NYT)How Chinese scientists made petrol building blocks with CO2, water and sunlight ($SCMP)DeepSeek was a warning shot. China is building its next surprise (The Washington Post)Accelerationist State: China's biopharma revolution (Asia Times)China cancels rocket launches after failures – but will the Long March-10A still lift off? ($SCMP)How can China help Uruguay battle beetles threatening to invade South America? ($SCMP)Why one-off tech controls won’t stop China’s moonshot (Asia Times)Chinese universities surge in global rankings as US schools slip (NYT)Tech why China filed plans for 203,000 satellites (Beijing Scroll)China's biggest test (Inside Story)Milieu
Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban (The Guardian)Xi Jinping thought on ecological civilization transcends industrial civilization & is going global (Tracking People's Daily)'If you're flushing the toilet with grey water, people should know': how China turned rain into an asset (The Guardian)Beijing won its war for blue skies, but villagers are paying the price (NYT)Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s (The Guardian)Great Green Wall 2.0: China is geoengineering deserts with blue-green algae (SCMP) China expands green belt around its largest desert (Xinhua)China makes huge nuclear leap in world first for clean energy (Newsweek)China doesn't want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns (The Guardian)China and Saudi Arabia among nations receiving climate loans, analysis reveals (The Guardian)Rampen en ongelukken
Why China moved so quickly to execute 11 members of a notorious mafia family (BBC)China delays plans for mass production of self-driving cars after accident (NYT)Train hits, kills 11 in China's worst rail accident in over a decade (Reuters)Major Chinese bridge collapses into river just months after opening to traffic (Fox News)China tries to cover up toxic mining disaster in Zambia: WSJ (Newsweek)Mount Everest rescue: all hikers now safe after days stranded in powerful blizzard (Reuters)Super Typhoon Ragasa rampages through Taiwan, Hong Kong and southern China (The Guardian)Typhoon Ragasa live: Two million people evacuated in southern China after deaths in Taiwan and Philippines (The Guardian)12 dead, 4 missing after bridge collapses in Qinghai (China Daily)At least 60 dead in north China following extreme rain, authorities say (Reuters)Schandalen
Li Wenliang, an ordinary man, who sounded the alarm on COVID-19, died six years ago. Lest we forget (Pekingnology)We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands (BBC)Rights groups say China detained two journalists over corruption report (BBC)China fails to furb the 'secret filming betrayal’ of women and girls (NYT)China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia (BBC)Chinese-language crime networks now drive 20% of crypto laundering (Asia Times)The denial has collapsed: UN confirms forced labor in Tibet and Xinjiang (Bitter Winter)Love scams expose deep Indonesia-China trust issues (Asia Times)Thousands of workers flee Cambodia scam centres, officials say (The Guardian)Why Cambodia deported scam boss Chen Zhi to China, not the US (Asia Times)Sport
China views sports industry as new growth driver in next five years (Xinhua)Chinese government unveils plan to boost football development and youth training (Xinhua)Third division Chinese football team penalized for attempting to gift match officials (Global Times)Two securities officials fall to their deaths amid China's graft sweep ($Caixin)China's pro-wrestlers search for a star to bring the sport out of the shadows (The Guardian)China's dream of becoming a football superpower lies in tatters (BBC)Chinese Football Association launches self-recommendation system to better select talent, prevent corruption (Global Times)Xi declares 9th Asian Winter Games open (Xinhua)41 Chinese chess individuals penalized for cheating (Xinhua)Table tennis will not be the same without three Chinese superstars ($SCMP)Taiwan
Envisioning US Forces Korea's role in a Taiwan war (Asia Times)US must be prudent when supplying arms to Taiwan, Xi tells Trump (BBC)Xi tells Trump Taiwan is 'most important' issue in China-US ties in phone call ($SCMP)What Xi's military purge means for Taiwan (NYT)Taiwan in hot and heavy fight over $40 billion US arms deal (Asia Times)Despite Trump's pressure, $40 billion in military money is stalling in Taiwan (NYT)How war with China begins (NYT)Taiwan faces possible Beijing squeeze after US quits WHO and other agencies (SCMP)China's J-35 could be the key to winning a Taiwan war (Asia Times)TSMC buys up land in Arizona as Taiwan pledges US$500 billion US tech investment (SCMP)Hongkong
University expels student who called for accountability over Hong Kong fire (AFP)Hong Kong convicts a political exile's father, a first for the city (NYT)Jimmy Lai severely sentenced despite Trump calling for his release (Asia Times)Hong Kongs once-vibrant press stays silent or celebrates Jimmy Lai’s 20-year jail sentence (The Guardian)Nathan Law: Jimmy Lai's sentencing tells me this: democracy is dead in Hong Kong, and I escaped just in time (The Guardian)Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong pro-democracy figure, sentenced to 20 years in prison for national security offences (The Guardian)Jimmy Lai’s son says UK government did not do enough to help him on China visit (The Guardian)Panama voids Hong Kong-based firm's canal port contracts (BBC)Hong Kong national security trial of three pro-democracy activists to open (The Guardian)What went wrong before Hong Kong's apartment inferno (NYT)Macau
Macau's Grand Emperor hotel rips up lobby floor to sell off gold bricks (The Guardian)Macau's silent chill: the arrest of Au Kam San and the unseen repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($SCMP)Sam Hou Fai elected chief executive-designate of Macau (Reuters)Macau's Portuguese strive to preserve their cultural heritage (FT)Tibet
Dalai Lama expresses 'gratitude and humility' at first Grammy win (The Guardian)Three centuries after his death, China is still afraid of the Sixth Dalai Lama (Bitter Winter)Beijing's bonfire of Tibetan prayer flags (Bitter Winter)The theater of obedience: 30 years of the false Panchen Lama (Bitter Winter)China detains respected Tibetan educator Dorje Tenzin, closes his school (Bitter Winter)China releases latest findings from second Qinghai-Tibet Plateau scientific expedition (Xinhua)Silencing pro-Tibet activists abroad: China's transnational repression (Bitter Winter)Choosing the next Dalai Lama is surprisingly dangerous ($The Washington Post)Why China built 162 square miles of solar panels on the world's highest plateau, in Tibet (NYT)'She didn't realise how dangerous it was': London-bound student held in China over Tibet support (The Guardian)Xinjiang
Amsterdam's Lonely Uyghur vs Uyghur restaurants - or in favor of them? (Bitter Winter)Why Uyghurs remembered February 5, 1997, 29 years on (Bitter Winter)Uyghurs are 'protected no more' in Türkiye (Bitter Winter)A tale of two hostage-takings: Maduro and the Uyghurs (Bitter Winter)America's Maduro operation and China's Aksu cave operation: A Uyghur view (Bitter Winter)China, Kazakhstan, and the 'Chinese flag burning' trial (Bitter Winter)China threatens detention in Xinjiang over banned Uyghur songs (AP)A new anthology reveals the suppressed voices of Uyghur poets, most of whom are in jail (Bitter Winter)US drops plan to deport Chinese man who helped expose abuse of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, say activists (AP)Man who documented Uyghur camps in China may face removal from US after ICE arrest (AFP)Binnen-Mongolie
Mongolian: The language Beijing wants to bury alive (Bitter Winter)A memoir on repression in China's Southern Mongolia - in an anti-West magazine (Bitter Winter)Genocide in Southern Mongolia: the return of a buried history (Bitter Winter)Inner Mongolia focuses on desertification control of Horqin sandy land (Xinhua)Words used for cultural genocide: how 'Northern Frontier' is replacing 'Inner Mongolia' (Bitter Winter)Unusual protest by Southern Mongolian herders ask for compensation after grazing ban (Bitter Winter)‘Northern frontier culture’: How China is erasing ‘Mongolia’ from Mongolian culture (The Strategist)Inner Mongolia emerges as model for Xi Jinping's ethnic affairs policy, but analysts warn of cultural 'erosion' (SCMP)Podcast: Why is the Communist Party redoubling its assimilation efforts? (The Economist)Christian inmate tortured in notorious Southern Mongolia prison (Bitter Winter)Een lach en een traan
Beijing pastry shop overrun by shoppers after Xi Jinping's visit (The Guardian)Draco Malfoy becomes unlikely Lunar New Year mascot in China (BBC)How UK plush toy Jellycat conquered China (BBC)China probes museum art theft claims that 'make the Louvre thieves look dumb' ($SCMP)Miss Finland's viral 'slanted-eyes' photo stirs racism firestorm (BBC)Want a wedding in a nightclub, a temple, a lake or a subway station? In China, you can (Reuters)Shanghai offers nighttime marriage registration at nightclub (City News Service)Xi Jinping cracks joke about spying with phones given to South Korean president (The Guardian)"I can touch the clouds': how it feels to cross the world's highest bridge, in S. China (The Guardian)Horror film digitally altered in China to make gay couple straight (The Guardian)
