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China's Communist Party tops 100 million members but growth is slowing (SCMP)China firmly opposes NATO using China as an excuse to 'expand eastward into Asia-Pacific' (China Military Online)Chinese statements on US attack on Iran (The China-MENA Newsletter)Why Asia stands to lose if Iran chokes off Strait of Hormuz ($Nikkei)China to urge Iran to leave Strait of Hormuz open, avoid military response to US: strategist (CNBC YouTube)Why the Strait of Hormuz matters – and what a blockade could mean for China, the world ($SCMP)Readout from Xi-Putin call with Xi's 4-point proposal for Israel-Iran (The China-MENA Newsletter)As US enters Israel-Iran conflict, are China's Middle East interests at risk? ($SCMP)New world order: Greater China, Russia and Israel, but smaller US ($SCMP)China steps up efforts to ensure safety of Chinese citizens in Iran, Israel (Xinhua)Economie - Nationaal
China finalizes 800-billion-yuan funding for key national projects in 2025 (Xinhua)Popularity of 'Chinese brands' an inevitable outcome of high-quality development (Global Times)Central regulators issue plan to support NEV supercharger buildout (Trivium China)China leads the adoption of electric long-haul trucks (Asia Times)As AI replaces workers, China could consider universal basic income (SCMP)Rare earths: poisoned water and scarred hills (BBC)China's housing crisis is worse than it seems (Project Syndicate)China's farthest offshore wind farm begins operation (Xinhua)World's largest solar-powered car carrier vessel completes maiden voyage (Xinhua)China's rare earth origin story, explained (NYT)Economie - Internationaal
China's consumption is not nearly as low as it appears: CF40 Policy Brief (Pekingnology)Trump threatens extra tariffs on BRICS-aligned countries (NYT)China's rare earth export controls are good for Beijing, bad for business (Reuters)Quad countries agree to diversify critical mineral supplies amid China concerns (AFP)There's a race to power the future. China is pulling away ($NYT)China-Egypt partnership turns desert into thriving industrial hub (Xinhua)Second lancement réussi pour Xiaomi (Le Vent de la Chine)China's homegrown C909 breaking new ground in regional aviation (Xinhua)China's collateral demands curbing emerging countries' ability to manage finances, study shows (Reuters)'Chinese companies can spearhead a new wave of globalisation' (Pekingnology)Internationale Relaties
Sommet BRICS à Rio sans Xi: Le « China First » de Xi Jinping (Le Vent de la Chine)BRICS summit: Li in Brazil, but Xi dominates the headlines (Tracking People's Daily)US politician claims China is spreading antisemitism. Really (SCMP)China and Russia keep their distance from Iran during crisis (NYT)China's Ukrainian trap (Appia Institute)Japan's used destroyers head to Philippines to counter China ($SCMP)A Japanese student's 'social experiment' across China (Beijing Scroll)Israel's war on Gaza has exposed 'deep divide' within Brics, experts say (Middle East Eye)Leaders of Russia and China snub Brics summit in sign group’s value may be waning (The Guardian)North Korea, China and Russia’s ‘blood-forged’ ties: real or rhetoric? ($SCMP)China - Verenigde Staten
Does the United States need a China rethink? (Brookings)Solar industry says Senate plan would cede production to China (NYT)Chinese are cheering on Elon Musk against Donald Trump (Newsweek)How Harvard's ties to China helped make it a White House target (NYT)Rubio's foreign aid overhaul misreads aid influence and China's role (Coffee in the Desert )China reacts to Trump's new BRICS tariff threat (Newsweek)Beijing wants America to depend on China. Here's how to fight back ($The Washington Post)Caught between tariffs and China, Mexico adapts to an unpredictable US (NYT)Neurobiologist Wang Jing returns from US to lead institute at China's Shenzhen Bay Lab ($SCMP)US aircraft carrier's visit to Philippines may escalate regional tensions: expert (Global Times)China - Europa
China, EU pledge to uphold multilateralism, enhance cooperation (Xinhua)Germany summons Chinese envoy over laser-targeting of surveillance plane (The Guardian)'Pessimistic': Ukraine war, trade expected to mar progress at China-EU summit this month (SCMP)Beijing restricts EU medical devices in government procurement (Trivium China)China reassures Europe on rare earth supply amid export controls (Xinhua)China-EU trade tensions rise as Beijing levies anti-dumping tariffs on European cognac ($SCMP)Belgian FM vows to continue to deepen cooperation with China (Xinhua)'China is not US': Chinese FM calls on Europe to adopt pragmatic, rational view on China at China-EU strategic dialogue (Global Times)China, EU hold 13th round of high-level strategic dialogue (Xinhua)EU may as well be 'province of China' due to reliance on imports, says industrialist (The Guardian)China - Nederland
Dutch sound alarm on Chinese super-embassy in London ($The Spectator)How Heineken tapped into China's beer market ($FT)China, Netherlands to maintain close communication through existing channels in semiconductor industry: FM (Global Times)Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang met with Dutch Foreign Minister Veldkamp (People's Daily)Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp to visit China (gov.cn)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 ($de Volkskrant)China, Netherlands pledge to build open world economy, strengthen green development cooperation (Xinhua)Politiek
Projection of Xi as the exemplar for youth (Tracking People's Daily)China's human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown (The Guardian)Throttling the nationalist spirit, with Frances Yaping Wang (The US-China Perception Monitor)China's Communist Party subconscious (Appia Institute)China's disappearing generals put questions over Xi's grip (Newsweek)Xi Jinping pushes self-revolution at Politburo study session (Trivium China)CPC membership surpasses 100 million (The China Academy)Why are Chinese civil servants down the line saying no to dining out? ($SCMP)Under what volcano (Appia Institute)DeepSeek's democratic deficit (Lingua Sinica)Maatschappij
Zhejiang: Pastor Huang Yizi arrested again (Bitter Winter)Man arrested in Nanjing for secretly filming and sharing explicit videos (chinadaily.com.cn)A father's heist for hope against medical bills ends in prison - and tragedy (Pekingnology)Fuyang: New raid, arrests target Maizhong Reformed Church (Bitter Winter)A video game on 'gold diggers' is fuelling a sexism debate in China (BBC)14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025 (Beijing Scroll)Xi'an Church of Abundance: trial against pastors starts with fabricated 'victims' (Bitter Winter)The spiritual economy: young Chinese turn to fortune tellers as anxiety about the future rises (The Guardian)National crackdown on master Di Shen’s Buddhist group (Bitter Winter)'Every word has come back to haunt me': China cracks down on women who write gay erotica (BBC)Militaire zaken
China's nuclear triad still a one-legged giant (Asia Times)China eyes more overseas missions for growing naval fleet (Newsweek)Meet China's first home-grown carrier, the Shandong – a bridge to a blue-water future ($SCMP)NATO chided over remarks about China Ministry criticizes alliance for using Beijing as pretext to expand influence (China Daily)Chinese navy chief of staff and nuclear scientist expelled from top legislature ($SCMP)The myth of Russia and China's peer stealth threat (Asia Times)China's resolve to safeguard nuclear non-proliferation (US-China Perception Monitor)China to hold military parade to mark 80th anniversary of victory against Japanese aggression, fascism (Xinhua)China unveils mosquito-sized drone (The Telegraph)DeepSeek aids China's military and evaded export controls, US official says (Reuters)Cultuur
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)Chinese blockbuster 'Ne Zha 2' shatters records, now 7th on all-time global box office chart (Xinhua)Chinese film stirs national pride, rakes in $1bn in days (BBC)China's best music of 2024 (ChinaTalk)Cultural 'seed bank' explores richness of Chinese civilization (China Daily)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
The coder 'village' at the heart of China's A.I. frenzy (NYT)China's ivory tower in lockdown: top universities hide behind gates (Pekingnology) China to set up first international association on deep-space exploration (Xinhua)China steps closer to landing on moon by 2030 (Asia Times)China's diverging AI path (ChinaTalk)Why is intellectual history so central in contemporary China (Appia Institute)Gaokao, dix ans après le début de la réforme (Le Vent de la Chine)Chinese superconducting quantum computer completes over 500,000 tasks for 143 global users (ECNS)China reveals laser tech to read text from a mile away (Newsweek)China unveils new strategy to boost tech dominance (essanews.com)Milieu
China's anti-desertification progress: A story of green growth and common prosperity (Shanghai Daily)Regions in China take steps to ensure power supply amid heatwave-driven record demand (Global Times)China has paid a high price for its dominance in rare earths (NYT)China faces season's strongest heatwave and torrential rains simultaneously (Global Times)China's fourth-largest desert encircled by green belt on southeast edge (Xinhua)China to construct second ship lock at Three Gorges Dam amid growing navigation crisis (Probe International)China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power (The Guardian)China, Africa and disappearing donkeys: an unexpected crisis offers a clue to perils ahead (The Guardian editorial)Project to beat back the Sahara struggles to take root, even with Chinese expertise ($Caixin)Xi Jinping drives China's relentless fight against desertification (Xinhua)Rampen en ongelukken
China bans some portable batteries from flights as safety concerns grow (NYT)Ten dead after tourist boats capsize in China (BBC)Restaurant fire in Northeast China's Liaoning kills 22 (Ecns.cn)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 ($SCMP)Tibet earthquake: at least 53 dead as strong quake strikes near holy Shigatse city (The Guardian)Fire at food market in northern China kills eight people and injures 15 (AP)WHO implores China to finally share Covid origins data, five years on (AFP)Schandalen
8 individuals involved in children’s abnormal blood lead case placed under criminal detention (Global Times)Letters: How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls (The Guardian)The rise and fall of China's 'fentanyl king' in corruption-fueled bankruptcy ($Caixin)Chinese authority scams fleece international students in Australia of $5m in five months (The Guardian)Chinese association accused of mixing crime and patriotism as it serves Beijing ($The Washington Post)'News extortion' - A media corruption case in Shanghai (China Media Project)Former traditional Chinese medicine chief Yu Wenming caught in corruption crackdown ($SCMP)Cheng Lei's story: China's horrific, ultra-secret prison facilities exposed (Sky News Australia)Student who raped 10 women jailed in UK for 24 years (BBC)Australian journalist Cheng Lei, after years in a Chinese prison: 'I'm catching up on four years. I missed my children so much' (The Guardian)Sport
Two securities officials fall to their deaths amid China's graft sweep ($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 ($SCMP)China held 671 marathons, road races in 2024 (Xinhua)China jails ex-football head coach for bribery (BBC)Two former football officials sentenced to years behind bars for accepting bribes (Global Times)Taiwan
S. Korea’s role in a Taiwan crisis on which North might piggyback (Asia Times)Chinese pressure stresses Taiwan's democracy (Asia Times)China's new graphite bomb signals shift to silent siege of Taiwan (Asia Times)Can Taiwan really disconnect its economy from China? (NYT)Deterring a Taiwan invasion (ChinaTalk)China's new graphite bomb signals shift to silent siege of Taiwan (Asia Times)China decries US military assistance approved to Taiwan region (Xinhua)Give the A-10s to Taiwan and they can stop a Chinese sea invasion (Asia Times)Taiwan receives anti-ship boost from US (Newsweek)How a Taipei-controlled island close to mainland’s coast shows the limits of both sides (SCMP)Hongkong
Hong Kong code of conduct will oblige legislators to 'sincerely support' Beijing (The Guardian)Hong Kong: if your employee criticizes the CCP, your restaurant will be closed (Bitter Winter)Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong hit with new charges (The Guardian)Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces fresh charge of foreign collusion ($SCMP)2 arrested, 10 taken away as Hong Kong police ramp up Tiananmen vigil patrols ($SCMP)Hong Kong releases second group of democrats jailed for four years in national security trial (The Guardian, Reuters)Hong Kong's independent media targeted by abusive tax audits (Bitter Winter)Hong Kong's famous bamboo scaffolding hangs on (for now) (NYT)Hong Kong authorities trying to disrupt independent press with ‘strange’ tax auditsFormer prisoners and hostages urge Starmer to secure release of Jimmy Lai (The Guardian)Macau
Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($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
Why the Dalai Lama decided not to break from tradition on his successor (NYT)Lama or anti-lama (Appia Institute)The little mountain democracy that sustains Tibet's refugee nation (NYT)Buddhist rebirth versus Chinese control: the battle to choose the Dalai Lama's successor (The Guardian)Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday, triggering geopolitical questions for the future (AFP) Buddhist rebirth v Chinese control: the battle to choose the Dalai Lama's successor (The Guardian)Prayers for the Dalai Lama in the heart of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia (AFP)BBC visits heart of Tibetan resistance as showdown looms between Dalai Lama and China (BBC)The Dalai Lama rurns 90: a look at Tibet's future (Bitter Winter)What to know: how will the bext Dalai Lama be chosen? (NYT) July 2, 2025Xinjiang
Transplant facilities greatly expanded in Xinjiang - for more organ harvesting? (Bitter Winter)The day that ignited the flame of freedom: a personal memory of the June 15 Uyghur student demonstration (Bitter Winter)Dozens of Western companies connected with slave labor in the Uyghur region (Bitter Winter)The cost of silence: reflections three years after the Xinjiang police files leak (Bitter Winter)Far from home: Uyghur workers in factories supplying global brands (NYT)China is spying on Uyghurs in Türkiye using fake cell towers (Bitter Winter)Xinjiang, Tibet - China mobilizes museums for propaganda (Bitter Winter)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)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
China's first Legoland builds Great Wall replica to lure under-pressure consumers ($FT)Video: Humanoid robots stumble through football match in China (BBC)When trade wars crash the wedding (NYT)China tries to shift appetite for extreme eating shows (Reuters)Adorable or just weird? How Labubu dolls conquered the world (BBC)'Mom, am I the missing twin?' The story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunion (The Guardian)Paragliding mishap sparks debates (China Daily)Twinkle, twinkle, little Y-20 … Chinese children's songs get a military makeover (SCMP)'I've had 100 operations and will never stop' - inside China's cosmetic surgery boom (BBC)Chinese robots ran against humans in the world's first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile (CNN)
