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How should Trump approach China? A debate (NYT)'Only a multipolar coalition can secure Ukraine peace' (Pekingnology-Center for China and Globalization)Trump says Maduro's days are numbered but 'doubts' US will go to war with Venezuela (The Guardian, AFP)The stagnant order - and the end of rising powers (Foreign Affairs)Jin Canrong on the 'peace disease' among China's elite (Sinification)Why China's rise might not be peaceful (Part 2) (Sinification)The globalist playbook: war by design, control by crisis (Global GeoPolitics)China begins drills near Scarborough Shoal on final day of US-Philippine naval exercises ($SCMP)Unfair funding is holding back science in China. Can Beijing fix it? ($SCMP)Economie - Nationaal
Consumer confidence ticks up (Trivium China)Even as US-China trade dynamics command the global spotlight, Chinese leaders are focused on 'doing [their] own work well' (Trivium China)China's bet on self-reliance won't fix an unbalanced economy (Asia Times)China subsidizes power for AI data centers (Trivium China)China aiming for minimum 4.17% average annual growth over next decade (Trivium China)China outlines 5-year plan to double down on global tech ambitions (NYT)Xinhua signals three themes for China's 15th five-year plan (Pekingnology)GDP growth slows, but still on track to hit annual target (Trivium China)China reports 4.8% quarterly GDP growth, moving closer to annual target ($SCMP)China will soon have a new Five Year Plan. Here's how they have changed the world so far (BBC)Economie - Internationaal
Why factories will keep looking for alternatives to China (NYT)Tang Xiaoyang: Stitch Africa's fragmented supply chains with Chinese Capacity (Pekingnology)The new gold custodian: How China is replacing the West as the world's financial safe haven (Global GeoPolitics)Saudi Arabia targeting 5 mln Chinese tourists by 2030, says tourism minister (Xinhua)Why China will rule renewable energy (Paul Krugman)Look to the 'rising' Global South, ex-diplomat tells Chinese businesses ($SCMP)China's 'three new' exports surge, despite tariff barriers (Trivium China)Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses (The Guardian)What trade war? China's export juggernautmarches on (NYT)China's new gateway into South America: the Port of Chancay in Peru (Asia Times)Internationale Relaties
Chinese not the only ones upset by South Korean island naval base (Asia Times)Reading between the lines: China's UN abstention on Syria sanctions (Coffee in the Desert)China's mediation in the Thai-Cambodia conflict (Coffee in the Desert)Russian oil takes new China blow after Trump sanctions: report (Newsweek)Everybody wants Chinese tourists (China-MENA Newsletter)Japan and China in growing row after PM Takaichi says Taiwan conflict could trigger military deployment (The Guardian)The long arm of the Dragon: A film festival crushed before it began (Bitter Winter)Chinese diplomat threatens to cut off Japan's leader head (Newsweek)Japan protests 'extremely inappropriate' comments by Chinese envoy (BBC)Video: Why was 'South China Sea arbitration' illegal in the first place? (Xinhua)China - Verenigde Staten
China's moment: When Washington and Moscow both bow to Beijing (Asia Times)Halt in fees on Chinese vessels endangers US shipbuilding efforts (NYT)When two American analysts lecture The Economist about China (Pekingnology)Trump-Xi summit a strategic turning point in US-China rivalry (SCMP)How China reached into New York to stop a tiny film festival (NYT)China, US suspend rival port fees in latest trade war thaw (SCMP)*** The United States has no tools to break China (Global GeoPolitics)How the US overtook China as Africa's biggest foreign investor (BBC)Trump pardons former New York cop convicted of helping Beijing harass Chinese expatriate (AP)In cozying up to Trump, leaders hedge their reliance on Moscow and Beijing (NYT)China - Europa
Nexperia row shows how China is weaponising EU relationship - and winning (The Guardian)Can the EU walk a strategic autonomy tightrope in the China-US tug of war? (SCMP)China-critical UK academics describe 'extremely heavy' pressure from Beijing (The Guardian)Watching China in Europe - November 2025 (GMF)Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure (The Guardian)UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China (The Guardian)Europe's obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order (Asia Times)In UK, China is a threat and a coveted trade partner (NYT)The Chinese spy case you won't have heard about (The Spectator)First container ship on China-Europe Arctic route arrives in Gdansk (Xinhua)China - Nederland
China bevestigt versoepeling exportverbod voor chipmaker Nexperia ($de Volkskrant)China resumes some chip exports, easing fears of a global crunch (NYT)Nexperia crisis: Beijing agrees to talks with Dutch officials in ChinaNexperia fallout: Dutch-Chinese chip debacle reignites EU debate over foreign investments (SCMP)China urges Netherlands to work toward constructive solution to Nexperia issue (Xinhua)Nexperia halts chip supplies to China in threat to global car production (The Guardian)Trump hopes China will help push Russia towards Ukraine peace talks (BBC)Battle between Netherlands and China over chipmaker could disrupt car factories, companies say (The Guardian)Dutch chipmaker Nexperia said to halt salaries and system access for Chinese employees ($SCMP)De verpletterende strijd achter de schermen bij chipmaker Nexperia ($de Volkskrant)Politiek
Beijing court to rule in appeal of jailed Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu (The Guardian)How the fight for a Chinese bookstore's future heightened concerns over cultural squeeze ($SCMP)'Three closures in a row': Applauding the Party becomes mandatory in China (Bitter Winter)A tough job to keep: On the fates of China's international relations ministers (The US-China Perception Monitor)China to loosen chip export ban to Europe after Netherlands row (BBC)How vulnerable is China? ($Project Syndicate)Three things we learned from China's big political meeting this week (BBC)China's plenum has just finished – here are five key takeaways (The Guardian)China against China - Xi Jinping confronts the downsides of success (Foreign Affairs)Communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Xinhua)Maatschappij
Why I left the Three-Self Church (Bitter Winter)Two popular gay dating platforms removed from Apple app store in China (BBC)Two meals for $1: Why China's youth are not spending (BBC)Journalists' Day shouldn't be a celebration (Pekingnology)In China, the dream of outrunning time (NYT)Falun Gong practitioner, 74, dies four days after release from jail (Bitter Winter)Three pastors of Church of Abundance re-arrested amid ongoing legal uncertainty (Bitter Winter)In China, victims of abuse are told to 'keep it in the family' (NYT)Onderzoek: dreigen met zelfmoord als vorm van protest is in China in opkomst ($de Volkskrant)Yunnan: Lisu Christian detained for organizing religious gatherings (Bitter Winter)Militaire zaken
Days after Fujian launch, images suggest China is building first nuclear-powered carrier (SCMP)Xi's military purges show unease about China's nuclear forces (NYT)China's latest aircraft carrier enters fleet as naval competition with the US heats up (CNN)China reacts to Trump's nuclear weapons tests order (Newsweek)China's military coups? (Appia Institute)Devant des eurodéputés, la Chine déclare que l’OTAN ne devrait pas exister (Euractiv)Australia accuses Chinese fighter jet of releasing flares near RAAF aircraft in 'dangerous' incident over South China Sea (The Guardian)PLA purges (ChinaTalk)Has Xi Jinping lost control of China's military - and China itself? (Gatestone Institute)Philippines eyes Korean ship-killer missiles to point at China (Asia Times)Cultuur
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)China's new Revolution of Culture (Appia Institute)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)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
How China is closing tech gap on the West; rare earth mineral find: SCMP daily highlights (SCMP)The myth of China's 'AI talent pipeline' (ChinaTalk)Nothing is given: China's open-source AI tsunami (Asia Times)Chinese student boom helps create more university spots for Americans: study (SCMP)Return of Chinese astronauts delayed after spacecraft struck by debris (The Guardian)Nothing surprising in China's innovative rise (Asia Times)Chinese drugmakers shift from copycats to global innovators (FT)Balancing opportunity and risk: rethinking China Scholarship Council programmes amid geopolitical tensions (leidenmadtrics.nl)The World Conference on China Studies: CCP's gobal academic rebranding campaign (Bitter Winter)Chinese Nobel laureate and physicist Chen Ning Yang dies aged 103 (BBC)Milieu
A flood of green tech from China is upending global climate politics (NYT)China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds (The Guardian)When Beijing makes a climate pledge, the world should listen (Asia Times)'A life of captivity': Canada refuses marine park's request to export its whales to China (The Guardian)China is the adult in the room on climate now (NYT)China for first time promises to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions (NYT)China's plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts (The Guardian)China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts (The Guardian)China, world's largest carbon polluting nation, announces new climate goal to cut emissions (AP)Mass evacuations as southern China braces for strongest storm of the year (BBC)Rampen en ongelukken
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)After the flood: Beijing residents left to count the cost with little state support (The Guardian)Firefighters trek uphill to aid stranded residents in Beijing after heavy rains (Ecns.cn)China floods: more than 30 killed in Beijing and tens of thousands evacuated (The Guardian)Schandalen
China extradites online gambling, fraud criminal from Thailand (Xinhua)Cryptoqueen who fled China for London mansion to be sentenced over £5bn Bitcoin stash (BBC)Cuba arrests alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin who escaped custody in Mexico (AFP)China’s No 2 general He Weidong expelled from the Communist Party (SCMP)Met police disrupt suspected international smuggling ring from the UK to China in UK's 'largest' phone theft crackdown (PA Media)Chinese police handles 14,000 cases involving intellectual property theft, counterfeit goods (Xinhua)China's fifth-ranking official was suspect in dropped Westminster spy case (The Guardian)Chinese ex-agriculture minister gets death sentence with two-year reprieve (Business Standard)Chinese woman convicted after 'world's biggest' bitcoin seizure (BBC)China court sentences 11 people to death over alleged role in family-run Myanmar scam operations (The Guardian, AP, AFP)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 ($SCMP)Taiwan
Recruiting the Gods: China represses religion at home but weaponizes it in Taiwan (Bitter Winter)Taiwan's population plunges further (Newsweek)China and Japan spar over Taiwan (Trivium) How the Japan PM's Taiwan remarks provoked the fury of China (BBC)AI slopaganda in the KMT election (ChinaTalk)Taiwan vice-president presses case at EU parliament for joint efforts to counter China (AP)Ma Ying-jeou remembers historic meeting with Xi Jinping a decade ago (Pekingnology)The next war we already saw: Taiwan (Asia Times)Trump says he has assurances from Beijing of no attack on Taiwan during his term ($SCMP)From rebel to rebuilder: Cheng Li-wen, the new Chair of KMT (Pekingnology)Hongkong
Wall Street risks shorting freedom in Hong Kong (Project Syndicate)Two dead after cargo plane skids off Hong Kong runway into sea (BBC)Beijing warns new US consul general in Hong Kong not to cross 'red lines' ($SCMP)Hong Kong shuts down ahead of world's biggest typhoon this year (Reuters)Ten Years: has the hit film's dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality? (The Guardian)Hong Kong lawmakers say no to more rights for same-sex couples (BBC)Free Jimmy Lai before he dies in prison (The Washington Post)First patriotic education base for young Hong Kong and Macao people was inaugurated in Beijing (Tracking People's Daily)Hong Kong officials harden their stance on 'soft resistance' (NYT)Hong Kong summons UK, Australia envoys after activists granted asylum (BBC)Macau
Macau's silent chill: the arrest of Au Kam San and the unseen repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($SCMP)Sam Hou Fai elected chief executive-designate of Macau (Reuters)Macau's Portuguese strive to preserve their cultural heritage (FT)No horse racing, please, we're Chinese: the end of a venerable tradition in Macau (Bitter Winter)Tibet
Choosing the next Dalai Lama is surprisingly dangerous ($The Washington Post)Why China built 162 square miles of solar panels on the world's highest plateau, in Tibet (NYT)'She didn't realise how dangerous it was': London-bound student held in China over Tibet support (The Guardian)Outdoor clothing brand Arc'teryx apologises for fireworks display in Tibet (BBC)Tsang monastery: One Tibetan monk arrested, A leader commits suicide (Bitter Winter)A voice silenced: Tibetan Head Lama dies in Chinese custody (Bitter Winter)Xi touts unity and development in surprise Tibet visit (BBC)Xi makes second-ever visit to Tibet as president (Reuters)Over 300 Tibetan stupas and religious statues demolished by the Chinese (Bitter Winter)Podcast: The hunt for the next Dalai Lama (The Guardian)Xinjiang
300 million tourists just visited China's stunning Xinjiang region. There's a side they didn't see (BBC)'Stop dealing with thieves. America must recognize the Uyghurs' stake in rare earths' (Bitter Winter)Silk Roads and surveillance: How aid became a tool of control in Xinjiang (Bitter Winter)Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi and the fight against the East Turkestan genocide: A Uyghur view (Bitter Winter)'They told me not to speak out': the Uyghur woman who took on China – and won her husband's freedom (The Guardian)From Istanbul to East Turkistan: Nuh Theatre gives voice to silenced people (Bitter Winter)What makes the Xinjiang-Tibet mega railway China's 'project of the century'? ($SCMP)'Xinjiang is a wonderful land': China's new White Paper recasts control as cultural progress (Bitter Winter)An Uyghur's true story: a family destroyed after the concentration camps (Bitter Winter)China's Xinjiang transforms deserts into renewable energy goldmine (Xinhua)Binnen-Mongolie
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)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)Een lach en een traan
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)A restaurant scandal sticks in China's throat (The Economist)US tennis player Townsend apologizes after mocking Chinese cuisine (Shanghai Daily)Chinese teens to pay $300,000 for urinating in soup (BBC)Kim Jong Un grins as Xi and Putin talk 'immortality' in hot mic moment (NK News)Local Chinese government's stimulus plan entices big spenders to dig in while dining out (SCMP)
