Laatste nieuws

  • China en de wereldcrisis

  • China warns nations against 'appeasing' US in trade deals (BBC)
  • China dismisses Zelenskyy's claim it has supplied weapons to Russia (The Guardian, agencies)
  • China accuses US of interfering in its Latin America ties (Newsweek)
  • China wants countries to unite against Trump, but is met with wariness (NYT)
  • China's plan to fight Trump's trade war (The New Yorker)
  • Trump's tariffs leave China's neighbours with an impossible choice (BBC)
  • The US-China decoupling arrives (Axios Macro)
  • Can a global trade war be avoided? ($Project Syndicate)
  • Xi Jinping is in Vietnam to figure out how to 'screw' the US, says Trump (The Guardian, agencies)
  • How a trade war becomes a shooting war (The Washington Post)
  • Economie - Nationaal

  • Rollen omgedraaid: China grootste handelspartner voor veel landen, niet de VS ($de Volkskrant)
  • China says its own consumers will save the day. But they're not buying (NYT)
  • There is no private sector in China: The US needs officially to restrict cooperation with China (Gatestone Institute)
  • 'Fruit of the devil': Hainan's betel nut sellers suffer from stuttering economy (The Guardian)
  • China's first homegrown large cruise ship debuts in Qingdao (Xinhua)
  • The relentless innovation fuelling China's 'brutal' car wars ($FT)
  • World feels it when spending habits of 500 million Chinese change (Asia Times)
  • Maker of Assassin's Creed video games gets $1.25bn Chinese investment (BBC)
  • Chinese electric carmaker BYD sales beat Tesla (BBC)
  • What happened to China's 'ghost cities'? (Newsweek)
  • Economie - Internationaal

  • Harming Iran's oil exports to China is 'dramatic blow' (JNS)
  • Trump's trade war with China could be good for India. But is it ready? (NYT)
  • Xi says China to join neighboring countries for Asia's modernization (Xinhua)
  • Xi's rondreis door Zuidoost-Azië krijgt door Trumps heffingen plots meer gewicht ($de Volkskrant))
  • Donald Trump's China trade war a 'boon' for Brazil but sends US farmers reeling ($FT)
  • SCO dialogue partners eye deeper cooperation with China at investment event (Xinhua)
  • China's neighbourhood play (The India China Newsletter)
  • Three key takeaways of China's central conference on work related to neighboring countries (Beijing Scroll)
  • Xi: Strengthen ties with neighbouring countries (rthk.hk, Reuters, AFP)
  • « Je te taxe, tu me taxes… » (Le Vent de la Chine, éditorial)
  • Internationale Relaties

  • Iranian foreign minister to visit China ahead of nuclear talks (Reuters)
  • China's double game in Myanmar (Foreign Affairs)
  • With African mining interests at stake, China wades into DR Congo-Rwanda conflict (SCMP)
  • Chinese scholars suggest peaceful path with Philippines in South China Sea dispute ($SCMP)
  • Canadian PM's 'China threat' rhetoric largely serves election purpose (Global Times)
  • China, India reportedly to resume pilgrimage to Xizang region (Global Times)
  • China-built airport in Nepal was littered with corruption, inquiry finds (NYT)
  • China imposes new bans on missionary work, claims it's for 'national security' (The Christian Post)
  • Kyiv sanctions three Chinese companies accused of helping Russia (The Guardian, agencies)
  • China, Cambodia vow to forge all-weather community with shared future in new era (Xinhua)
  • China - Verenigde Staten

  • Quand Pékin va à Hanoï pour sauver le capitalisme contre Washington (Le Vent de La Chine)
  • China warns countries not to team up with US against it on trade (NYT)
  • Will Trump's tariffs tank China's 5 percent growth? (Yicai Global)
  • Trump’s tariffs give China its biggest chance for economic reform since 1997 crisis (SCMP)
  • China issues warning to the world over Trump and promises 'countermeasures' (The Daily Express)
  • China sanctions US congressional members, officials and NGO heads in HK-related countermeasure (Global Times)
  • China is finding ways to replace American farmers (NYT)
  • Philippines, US launch joint combat drills in 'full battle test' (Reuters)
  • China sends back new Boeing jet made more expensive by tariffs (Reuters)
  • Breakdown in US-China relations raises specter of new Cold War (WSJ)
  • China - Europa

  • China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects (The Guardian)
  • Top Donald Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech (FT)
  • Why Europe fears a flood of cheap goods from China (NYT)
  • Another UK government is doing contradictory things when it comes to China (The Guardian)
  • Don't politicise row over Scunthorpe steel plant, says Chinese foreign ministry (The Guardian)
  • China and EU unite against US tariff 'weapon' (Conflict Watcher)
  • It's time for the European Union to do a 'Kissinger' with China ($SCMP)
  • Europe must choose between America and China ($FT)
  • China raises tariffs on US goods to 125% as Xi urges EU to resist Trump 'bullying' (The Guardian, agencies)
  • UK sends military chief to China for first visit in 10 years (BBC)
  • China - Nederland

  • Chinese vice president meets Royal Philips CEO (Xinhua)
  • Missing Chinese student in Amsterdam confirmed dead (Shine)
  • Chinese student missing in the Netherlands for over 2 weeks (Shine)
  • Na verkoop havens rond Panamakanaal vertrekt Hongkongs bedrijf ook uit Rotterdam ($de Volkskrant)
  • China, Netherlands pledge to build open world economy, strengthen green development cooperation (Xinhua)
  • Amsterdam's 'Lonely Uyghur,' the court of the citizens of the world, and Xi Jinping's genocide (Bitter Winter)
  • China ready to expand economic, trade exchanges with Netherlands: Chinese Premier (Xinhua)
  • Chinese embassy strongly opposes Taiwan-related motion adopted by the Netherlands (Global Times)
  • Chinese invloed en inmenging in het Nederlandse medialandschap (China Kennis Netwerk)
  • Remarks Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands on the Xizang separatist's visit to the Netherlands (nl.china-embassy.gov.cn)
  • Politiek

  • 'Why would he take such a risk?' How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor (The Guardian)
  • Steeling China for a fight, Xi faces his biggest test since Covid (NYT)
  • Why a recent campaign mobilizing 100 million Party members deserves special attention? (Beijing Scroll)
  • Top Chinese military official close to Xi rumored to have been arrested (Newsweek)
  • Clap de fin (Le Vent de la Chine)
  • China's third top official Zhao Leji missing from 'two sessions' closing due to illness ($SCMP)
  • Et un ministre de moins… (Le Vent de la Chine)
  • Mao Zedong's first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda (The Guardian)
  • Safeguarding China's regime is the top priority, Xi Jinping tells Politburo (SCMP)
  • Xi stresses advancing Peaceful China Initiative to higher level (Xinhua)
  • Maatschappij

  • China executes man who stabbed Japanese school boy (BBC)
  • China Buddhist Association: A Trojan horse of Chinese propaganda (Bitter Winter)
  • United Front calls for more control of Buddhist practice to set animals free (Bitter Winter)
  • Aboard the 'silver trains', China's retirees do their bit to offset Trump's tariffs (BBC)
  • Family of three sentenced for practicing Falun Gong (Bitter Winter)
  • Hohhot Christians' trial: nine sentenced to jail terms for distributing bibles (Bitter Winter)
  • Religious activities by foreigners in China: New restrictions from May 1 (Bitter Winter)
  • Coffee craze hits China's smaller cities via budget-friendly brews (Xinhua)
  • China facing obesity crisis as forecasts predict 65% will be overweight by 2030 (SCMP)
  • Child milk formula firms aim to meet parents' needs (China Daily)
  • Militaire zaken

  • First-ever joint air force drills between Egypt and China (Al-Monitor)
  • PLA ambitions and Xi's ideology (Appia Institute)
  • Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia captured in Ukraine: Zelensky (Newsweek)
  • China's military gamble? (Appia Institute)
  • Nuking tsunami from Asia (Appia Institute)
  • AGI and the future of warfare (ChinaTalk)
  • Satellite images show fresh Chinese bomber deployment in South China Sea around the Scarborough Shoal (Reuters)
  • How did Chinese weapons reach Hamas?
  • China brandishes cutter for snipping deep-sea cables (Asia Times)
  • Chinese naval group returns to contested waters after Australia mission (Newsweek)
  • Cultuur

  • Ne Zha 2 review – record-breaking animation is tale of demons, dragons and dazzling visuals (The Guardian)
  • Demon-child movie wows China – and smashes global box office records (The Guardian)
  • City walls from China's earliest dynasty discovered in Henan (Xinhua)
  • Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker Prize (NYT)
  • Chinese blockbuster 'Ne Zha 2' shatters records, now 7th on all-time global box office chart (Xinhua)
  • Chinese film stirs national pride, rakes in $1bn in days (BBC)
  • China's best music of 2024 (ChinaTalk)
  • Cultural 'seed bank' explores richness of Chinese civilization (China Daily)
  • China's passion for the piano fades as Beijing strikes somber tone ($Nikkei)
  • Your culture’s no good here ($Trivium China)
  • Wetenschap en Onderwijs

  • Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: 'embodied AI' is reshaping daily life in China (The Guardian)
  • Scientists find new method to extend lifespan of lithium-ion batteries (Xinhua
  • Some troubled science reporting at South China Morning Post (Pekingnology)
  • Cutting-edge breakthroughs drive medical innovation (China Daily)
  • Xi Jinping is investing in China's science and technology research as Trump is gutting America's research foundations (Sinocism)
  • Largest gallium wafer at lowest cost: how China leads on next-gen semiconductor tech ($SCMP)
  • Unitree's humanoid robot a great side-flip forward for China (Asia Times)
  • Tiny Chinese drone conquers Earth's deepest point, beyond reach of US Navy (SCMP)
  • DeepSeek has changed China's AI model landscape – what’s next? (SCMP)
  • China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans ($Nikei)
  • Milieu

  • Millions told to stay indoors as China braces for strong winds (BBC)
  • Chinese economist calls for bold action to fill climate leadership vacuum (SCMP)
  • UK energy secretary Ed Miliband: The global battle against the climate crisis needs China (The Guardian)
  • 'All the birds returned': How China led the way in water and soil conservation (The Guardian)
  • China pledges global cooperation to address climate change (Xinhua)
  • How China-Russia can seize the climate action lead (Asia Times)
  • China is not the West's environmental ally ($The Spectator)
  • Clean energy contributed 10% to China's GDP in 2024, analysis shows (The Guardian)
  • China's coal power habit undercuts 'unprecedented pace' of clean energy (The Guardian)
  • A thirst for power: China's water grid shapes its future (Asia Times)
  • Rampen en ongelukken

  • Nursing home fire in China kills 20 people (BBC)
  • Xi orders all-out rescue of people buried in landslide (Xinhua)
  • 32 civil servants handed punishments for fatal expressway collapse in China (Xinhua)
  • Earthquake strikes Tibet region; 95 dead, more than 100 injured, reports say ($SCMP)
  • Tibet earthquake: at least 53 dead as strong quake strikes near holy Shigatse city (The Guardian)
  • Fire at food market in northern China kills eight people and injures 15 (AP)
  • WHO implores China to finally share Covid origins data, five years on (AFP)
  • Blast rocks residential building in southern China (Reuters)
  • Zhuhai car attack: senior heads roll in south China city where dozens died ($SCMP)
  • Ground collapse leaves 13 workers missing in southern China (Xinhua)
  • Schandalen

  • China investigates 'princeling' amid crackdown on finance industry (FT)
  • ‘The boat owners treat us as slaves’: crews report abuse and death on long-haul vessels (The Guardian)
  • China to maintain high pressure on corruption fugitives (Xinhua)
  • 2,876 fraud suspects repatriated from Myanmar to China (Xinhua)
  • China prosecutes over 21,000 people for counterfeit crimes in 2024 (Xinhua)
  • China steps up judicial efforts to punish corruption in 2024 (Xinhua)
  • Zhenhao Zou: 'charming' PhD student who filmed dozens of attacks on women (The Guardian)
  • Church of Almighty God: 648 members arrested in Jilin, two died from torture (Bitter Winter)
  • In China, rare dissent over a program to save on drug costs (NYT)
  • Myan­mar escape by actor sig­nals action to come against scam­mers (SCMP)
  • Sport

  • 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)
  • China held 671 marathons, road races in 2024 (Xinhua)
  • China jails ex-football head coach for bribery (BBC)
  • Two former football officials sentenced to years behind bars for accepting bribes (Global Times)
  • World Chess Championship 2024: Ding Liren (China) v Gukesh Dommaraju (India) pre-match questions, answered (The Guardian)
  • Global trail runners gather in China's Zhangjiajie for epic race (Xinhua)
  • Taiwan

  • Royal Navy ready to defy China in Taiwan Strait (The Telegraph)
  • 'Don't panic, but don't relax': Taiwan’s plan 'to use 7-Eleven chains' as wartime hubs (The Guardian)
  • Would Donald Trump defend Taiwan? (Newsweek)
  • Taiwan deports mainland spouse amid rising cross-Strait friction (US-China Perception Monitor)
  • Taiwan’s security chief Joseph Wu visits US for 'special channel' talks, source says ($SCMP)
  • New poll: Does 'America First' mean abandoning Taiwan and Korea? (Asia Times)
  • Defense spokesperson says PLA's drills around Taiwan 'legitimate, necessary, reasonable' (Xinhuanet)
  • China military drills targeting Taiwan put region's security at risk, says US (The Guardian, agencies)
  • PLA launches 'Strait Thunder-2025A' exercises in middle, southern areas of Taiwan Strait (Beijing Scroll)
  • PLA launches 'Strait Thunder-2025A' exercises in middle, southern areas of Taiwan Strait (Beijing Scroll)
  • Hongkong

  • Hong Kong suspends postal service to the US after Trump's tariff hikes (CNN)
  • Hong Kong defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry (AP)
  • Outcry after British MP refused entry to Hong Kong (The Guardian, agencies)
  • 'All Is well in Hong Kong,' says Sydney's 'Law Society Journal' 2. Misrepresenting 'colonial Hong Kong' (Bitter Winter)
  • 'All is well in Hong Kong,' says Sydney's 'Law Society Journal.' 1. Slandering pro-democracy activists (Bitter Winter)
  • Hong Kong firm did not uphold Panama Canal ports contract: Panama audit (AFP)
  • Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index plummets 13% in its worst rout in decades amid all-out US-China tariff war ($SCMP)
  • China rejects so-called US 'Hong Kong Policy Act Report' (Xinhua)
  • Li Ka-shing entre le marteau et l’enclume (Le Vent de la Chine Editorial)
  • The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong's rule of law (The Guardian)
  • Macau

  • 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)
  • No horse racing, please, we're Chinese: the end of a venerable tradition in Macau (Bitter Winter)
  • Hong-Kong-style National Security Law comes to Macau (Bitter Winter)
  • Tibet

  • Surprise: Lama Humkar Dorje Rinpoche 'died in Vietnam' (Bitter Winter)
  • China decides to impose reciprocal visa restrictions on US personnel who behave badly on Xizang-related issues (Xinhua)
  • Leading Tibetan lama 'disappeared' and possibly killed (Bitter Winter)
  • Stop the Lower Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in Tibet (The Adams-Solomon Report)
  • US restricts Chinese officials' visas over access to Tibetan areas (Reuters)
  • White paper highlights human rights progress in Xizang (Xinhua)
  • Why the choice of the next Dalai Lama is such a sensitive issue for Beijing (SCMP)
  • Dalai Lama says his successor will be born outside China in the 'free world' (Reuters)
  • Tibetan students told not to attend religious activities during the holidays (Bitter Winter)
  • Gyalo Thondup, political operator and brother of the Dalai Lama, dies at 97 (NYT)
  • Xinjiang

  • Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to 'sanitise' China abuses in Xinjiang (The Guardian)
  • How I celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Barin Revolution in East Turkestan (Bitter Winter)
  • Amsterdam's 'Lonely Uyghur' about celebrating Nowruz in exile (Bitter Winter)
  • Thailand will 'visit' in China the Uyghurs it deported there: it's just theater (Bitter Winter)
  • Morocco finally frees Uyghur dissident Idris Hasan (Bitter Winter)
  • Could Morocco's religious tolerance be the answer to the Chinese Uyghur crisis? (Middle East Forum)
  • International Mother Language Day: an appeal for Uyghur language by the Netherlands' 'Lonely Uyghur' (Bitter Winter)
  • China's weapons against Uyghurs: birth control and alliances with Islamic countries (Bitter Winter)
  • UK politicians rally in support of Uyghurs and remember the Ghulja massacre 28 years ago (Bitter Winter)
  • Never again, but not for the Uyghurs: a shameful omission (Bitter Winter)
  • Binnen-Mongolie

  • 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)
  • Anti-religious social credit targets Southern Mongolian peasants (Bitter Winter)
  • China's push to create a single national identity. Inner Mongolia is the latest target (The Economist)
  • China kidnaps Southern Mongolian dissident in Mongolia (Bitter Winter)
  • Southern Mongolia: The CCP mobilizes traditional culture against religion (Bitter Winter)
  • Een lach en een traan

  • Chinese robots ran against humans in the world's first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile (CNN)
  • Beijing gears up for human-robot marathon (Ecns)
  • Chinese influencer smashes temples, performs bold stunts to challenge superstitions (SCMP)
  • LA-to-Shanghai United Airlines flight turns back after pilot forgets passport (AFP)
  • Xi Jinping's vision drives China's winter sports boom (Xinhua)
  • The $6.2 million banana: on art, bitcoins, and Chinese Communist capitalism (Bitter Winter)
  • China roads blocked by thousands of cyclists in night quest for dumplings (BBC)
  • Video: Two tonnes of live snakes seized by customs in China (Viralpress)
  • China's censors are letting rapper Ye perform there. His fans are amazed (NYT)
  • Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm (The Guardian)
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     China en de wereldcrisis
     Economie - Nationaal
     Economie - Internationaal
     Internationale Relaties
     China - Verenigde Staten
     China - Europa
     China - Nederland
     Politiek
     Maatschappij
     Militaire zaken
     Cultuur
     Wetenschap en Onderwijs
     Milieu
     Rampen en ongelukken
     Schandalen
     Sport
     Taiwan
     Hongkong
     Macau
     Tibet
     Xinjiang
     Binnen-Mongolie
     Een lach en een traan