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A summit in China with Trump and Putin? That might be awkward for Xi (NYT)Russia, China may be more aggressive if they feel Trump is on 'his way out': Brookings (CNBC)A Trump-Putin-Xi summit would put Xi at the apex (Asia Times)With leaders’ summit, 'Quad' hopes to breathe fresh life into grouping (The Japan Times)Globalized populism: Rethinking China's place in the rules-based order (China Focus)China previews a world where the algorithm is switched off (Asia Times)Fresh attacks hit Riyadh airport as Chinese oil execs set to arrive (Coffee in the Desert)It's time for China to offer more than statements on Hormuz (SCMP)Why China is missing the big AI rally (Asia Times)Slowdown, climbdown or meltdown, Asia sits on AI's fault line (Asia Times)Economie - Nationaal
China's economics of denial (Foreign Affairs)In China, the AI bubble has already burst (Reuters)How China's leader plans to win the future with AI (NYT)What China's vibe-coding capital can tell us about the AI boom (The New Yorker)How China's leader plans to win the future with AI (NYT)China's AI makes a great leap forward. But its economy is falling behind (NYT)Domestic auto sales collapse in August, NEV penetration hits new high (Trivium China)China's economy hits a weak spot: consumers aren't spending (Cryptopolitan)China growth outlook dims as real estate, retail pressure worsens ($Nikkei Asia)China must be properly scared for an AI slowdown to work (Asia Times)Economie - Internationaal
China cannot remain the world's factory. What comes next? (TIME)China moves to tighten its grip over exports of top AI models ($NYT)China's export juggernaut (Axios Macro)The world needs Chinese electrical equipment makers to power AI data centers (EuroAsia and the World)The hidden policies that power China's export boom (NYT)Only one money for China (Appia Institute)How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West (The Washington Post)China boosts crude oil, LNG imports from Canada as Ottawa-Washington relations sour ($SCMP)Cui Fan: China certainly will not apologise for 'overcapacity' (Pekingnology)China's approach to AI in the Global South: selling the razor blades, not the razor ($Trivium China)Internationale Relaties
A reality check on the India China normalisation (The India China Newsletter)Weapon or wine bottle? China disputes reports of artillery shell in Papua New Guinea (BBC)Russia surpasses France in African youth appeal, still trails China: survey ($SCMP)Lula's reelection expected to bring continuity to China-Brazil ties, fresh momentum for Global South cooperation: expert (Global Times)How China deploys wartime history against Japan (Asia Times)Japan, suffering Xi's ire, hopes Trump can help temper China (NYT)Why a new Pakistan-China border pact has irked India (BBC)China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say (Reuters)Hong Kong bankrolling China's bid for global AI reachThe real BRICS summit happened in a side room with Modi and Xi (EuroAsia and the World)China - Verenigde Staten
Nvidia chief told Trump he did not know Chinese woman was suspected spy (NYT)The Nvidia affair (NYT)Nvidia scandal may test fragile US-China truce, experts say ($SCMP)Nvidia’s China mess ($Sinocism)America's 'Blue Wave' spells trouble for the US-China truce (EuroAsia and the World)After the midterms, what next for US-China ties? (Newsweek)China and US need to join hands against another powerful adversary: AI ($SCMP)Nvidia chief Jensen Huang seen as target of Chinese spy plot (NYT)Sino–American stability? (Project Syndicate)What a US-China AI safety channel needs ($Project Syndicate)China - Europa
Europe's struggle to compete with China ramps up on linkedin (FT)Quo vadis: EU-China trade relations – from de-risking to technical fixes (Pekingnology)What lessons should Europe take from China’s tightening grip on its advanced AI? (EuroAsia and the World)UE-Chine : le compte à rebours vers une guerre commerciale a-t-il commencé ? (Le Vent de la Chine)Germany, France to tighten ‘Made in Europe' stance, pressuring China’s auto industry ('$SCMP)Europe cannot rely on trade barriers to counter China ($FT)EU-Handelsgespräche mit China in Peking: 360 Milliarden Defizit – und Brüssel verhandelt über Olivenöl (Berliner Zeitung)China and Europe step back from trade war with limits on Chinese car exports (NYT)EU weighs safeguard tariffs as China refuses hybrid car limits (Asia Times)EU and China clinch deal over cars after heated trade talks as Brussels pushes to rebalance trade (Euronews)China - Nederland
WRR: innovatie alleen is niet genoeg, ook ander handelsbeleid is nodig (WRR)China's DUV lithography still lags ASML by four generations (Asia Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China targets strategic sectors in Netherlands, report warns, citing ASML (Nikkei Asia)Dutch trade minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma in China for high-stakes talks on tech war, tariff tensions (SCMP)Uyghur rights: Dutch Parliament hits Beijing where it hurts (Bitter Winter)The Hague City Council bans pro-Chinese Lantern Festival (Bitter Winter)The Netherlands vows to protect Uyghurs against China’s transnational harassment (Bitter Winter)The doppa on our heads, the homeland in our hearts: Amsterdam's lonely Uyghur on doppa day (Bitter Winter)Politiek
Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown in the spotlight as China prepares for meeting of top leaders (The Guardian)Après Xi, le déluge? (Newsweek)Why Xi Jinping should let pastor John Cao come home (Gatestone)Xi Jinping health rumors explained: what we know and don't know (Newsweek)CCP propaganda wants you: behind the curtain of China's global TV machine (Bitter Winter)China treats AI as comprehensive strategy and that makes a big difference (EuroAsia and the World)How China's spy boss signaled his agency is taking control of AI (Newsweek)China's AI double fear (Newsweek)Anthropic reveals massive Chinese anti-dissident AI-generated slander (Bitter Winter)Inside the Maoist Communist Party of China. 1. A leftist dissent (Bitter Winter)Maatschappij
China's social security system fails to narrow inequality, Chinese scholars argue (Pekingnology)Where every tree hides 'an enemy': How I watched China's paranoia grow (NYT)China's stressed people are starting to turn on one another (NYT)'People had naive expectations': How MeToo has changed in China (The Guardian)China's new exit rules reveal a state that fears its own citizens (Bitter Winter)'People had naive expectations': How MeToo has changed in China (The Guardian)I went to Kyrgyzstan to find China's silent nomads (ChinaTalk)Low pay, job insecurity for China's trainee doctors a turn-off for young talent (SCMP)Asia's lonely economy of one (Asia Times)Fujian villagers halt attempted demolition of Guanyin statue (Bitter Winter)Militaire zaken
Zhang Shengmin, Xi's lone hatchet man at the top of China's military (AFP)China pairs undersea drone mothership with multidomain war vision (Asia Times)Terminator now: China is exploring humanoid robots for war (Asia Times)Report: Chinese entities gave Iran satellite images before deadly strike on US base (The Times of Israel)50 years after Mao's death, Xi still draws power from 'barrel of a gun' ($Nikkei)From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat (Reuters)Chinese military university urged to revise AI course to 'educate for war' (SCMP)This obscure airport tells you a lot about China ($The Washington Post)America's scientific elite is fueling China's military machine (Newsweek)Chinese navy’s combat software guru Zhao Xiaozhe disappears from academy website (SCMP)Cultuur
Documentary films: 'I thought it didn't stand a cat's chance in hell': Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China (The Guardian) Food delivery rider wins China's top literary prize (BBC)Why are Chinese audiences going for Korean musicals rather than Western shows? ($SCMP)What the I Ching is really about ($SCMP)China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines (The Guardian)Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China (BBC)Plato goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping wants China to become a world leader in Greek and Latin studies (Bitter Winter)When the esoteric West sought the Dao - and discovered its own reflection (Bitter Winter)"Was I scared going back to China? No': Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home (The Guardian)Le Serpent se faufile, le Cheval hennit (Le Vent de la Chine)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
In China's tough job market, anxious students spend thousands on internships ($SCMP)International student mobility to China and the Belt and Road (IIAS)Cheaper CAR-T therapy drawing global cancer patients to China (Asia Times)5 years after sweeping ban, China's tutoring industry still bleeding parents dry ($SCMP)UK university teacher: 'We pretend to teach, they pretend to learn’. The reality of lecturing Chinese students (The Spectator)China’s humanoid robots aren’t smart enough to take your job – yet (Reuters)Robots smash human track records, including Bolt's 100m sprint — video (Reuters, China Central Television)When humanoids outrun Olympians, what comes next? (Nikkei Asia)Video - Chinese humanoid robot 'Superman' hits 28 mph and could outrun Usain Bolt (New York Post)Record graduate influx lifts China's youth jobless rate to 17.9% in July (SCMP)Milieu
China's Net Zero advantage (Tablet)China's anti-desertification solutions contribute to a greener world (Xinhua)Central regulators tigthen environmental accountability for local leaders with new measures (Trivium China)Typhoon Narra: record flood waters submerge homes and force mass evacuations in China (Reuters)China planted 78 billion new trees - and seriously messed up its water cycle (Popular Mechanics)40% of flights grounded in Shanghai as long-lived Typhoon Dolphin moves north ($SCMP)China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives (BBC)Is China's climate returning to that of Tang dynasty golden age? Experts warn of a trap (SCMP)How climate change and tariffs help China raise more cattle (NYT)Cars swept away and trees toppled as Typhoon Noul brings flooding to southern China – video (Reuters, AP)Rampen en ongelukken
16 killed, 32 injured after 7.0-magnitude quake hits China's Xizang (= Tibet) (Xinhua)Climate change played role in Nepal-Tibet flood, study finds (BBC)China falls victim to own secrecy after Nepal's deadly floods ($Newsweek)31 dead, 531 missing after mudslide hits border port in China's Xizang (Xinhua)China stuurt DNA-deskundigen naar Nepal, dodental verder gestegen ($de Volkskrant)China says 261 foreigners from 23 countries are missing in Tibet flood (NYT)China's super-dam is becoming an upstream water bomb (Project Syndicate)Chinese rescuers find 'nothing but ruins' at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the dead (The Guardian, Reuters)Chinese Embassy in Nepal rebuts 'fake news' claims over devastating mudslide in border areas, urges cooperation for saving lives (Global Times)Chinese premier arrives at mudslide-hit area in Xizang (Xinhua)Schandalen
Zion's Light Church Case: lawyers face violence in court (Bitter Winter)Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering 'heroes and martyrs' (The Guardian)China sentences the founder op the collapsed real estate giant Evergrande to life in prison (NYT)Founder of China's property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison (BBC)84-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner dies in notorious Heilongjiang prison (Bitter Winter)Corruption: Another financial official bites the dust (Trivium China)China launches global tax hunt going back decades ($FT)Former president of China Development Bank under probe (Xinhua)Politburo member Ma Xingrui's downfall exposes shadowy network tied to Evergrande, Vanke ($Caixin)'Even Politburo members can be touched': what the latest purge says about Xi Jinping's China (The Guardian)Sport
China outlines new five-year plan for sports powerhouse drive (gov.cn)Why China's football problem is an economic problem (Sinification)Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt's 100-meter record (NYT)With no team in World Cup, China fans rally around a red card-happy referee (BBC)The Chinese sports brand taking on Nike and Adidas (BBC)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 ($Caixin)China's pro-wrestlers search for a star to bring the sport out of the shadows (The Guardian)Taiwan
A dangerous misunderstanding is brewing over Taiwan (NYT)Xi Jinping's war on humor: Taiwanese comedian hit for a joke (Bitter Winter)Top US Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen warns Trump not to waver on Taiwan ahead of Xi meet ($SCMP)One issue that could upend fragile US-China ties: Taiwan arms (NYT)*** Taiwan in the US–EU–China triangle (The Balancing Act)Can Taiwan build drones? (ChinaTalk)Will the US become China’s indirect enforcer on Taiwan? (Asia Times)China boycotts a top art festival over Taiwan exhibition (NYT)China advises its citizens to leave Taiwan ally Eswatini over 'security risks' (BBC)Taiwan opens up about US security cooperation ahead of Xi-Trump summit (The Japan Times)Hongkong
Joshua Wong, Hong Kong democracy activist, is sentenced to 10 years in prison (SCMP)Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil leaders jailed up to 7 years, as group is fined HK$1.5 million (SCMP)Joshua Wong admits instigating sanctions against Beijing, Hong Kong governments (SCMP)'Panic' as US immigrant visa interview pause hits at least 100 Hong Kong applicants (SCMP)These bookshops let Chinese readers question their country - now the doors are closing (BBC)Two Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists convicted in national security trial (BBC)Communist confession rituals return in Hong Kong (Bitter Winter)Yes, the Hong Kong of old is over (Project Syndicate)Hong Kong: booksellers raided, arrested for selling Emily Feng's 'Red Flowers' book (Bitter Winter)Five arrested after Hong Kong police raid independent bookshops (BBC)Macau
Sinicization of religion reaches Macau (Bitter Winter)Then they came for Macau: The Au Kam San case cignals an escalation of repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's Grand Emperor hotel rips up lobby floor to sell off gold bricks (The Guardian)Macau's silent chill: the arrest of Au Kam San and the unseen repression (Bitter Winter)Macau's big money days are behind it (FT)Xi Jinping urges Macau to diversify economy away from casinos (The Guardian)Xi swears in new leader of casino hub Macao, telling the city to diversify economy (AP)Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures (The Guardian)Macao's casino boom brings wealth but at a cost, 25 years since China's takeover (AP)Macau 'gradually unleashing deep potential' in push for better future: Xi ($SCMP)Tibet
Smoke over Lhasa: an exhibition on the uprising that defined a generation (Bitter Winter)Tibet or Xizang? Why Real Madrid's condolences for mudslide victims hurt Chinese feelings (The Straits Times)The mudslide buried homes, the Communist Party buried the numbers (Bitter Winter)The Nepal-Tibet catastrophe: what is China hiding? (Bitter Winter)Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there (BBC)China's weaponization of Tibet's green revolution (Bitter Winter)Progress 'with Chinese characteristics': a threat to the Tibetan people? (Bitter Winter)Tibetan protesters in New Delhi denounce China with shaved heads and prayers (Euronews)In death, a Tibetan activist finally got the world's attention (NYT)Wang Huning tours Tibet to enforce the new Ethnic Unity Law (Bitter Winter)Xinjiang
The agreement Beijing did not erase (Bitter Winter)No Uyghur is beyond reach: AI and Beijing's new machinery of transnational repression (Bitter Winter)How Beijing turned Uyghur childhood into a state project (Bitter Winter)How Beijing turns human relationships into instruments of power (Bitter Winter)The August 4, 2008, Semen Road Uyghur attack: was it really 'terrorism'? (Bitter Winter)China's transnational anti-Uyghur strategy: new research by Zenz and Tohti (Bitter Winter)China's Ethnic Unity Law: Uyghurs in the diaspora already see its effects (Bitter Winter)The East Turkestan flag at the World Cup (Bitter Winter)Coming together against silence: reflections on the 3rd International Uyghur Forum, ten years after the camps (Bitter Winter)Uyghur fathers, Uyghur children: persecution and resilience across generations (Bitter Winter)Binnen-Mongolie
The Great Solar Wall in Inner Mongolia: China doubles down on its ambitious effort to tame deserts ($SCMP)Ga. Sharavjamts and the Mongolian myths China tried to silence (Bitter Winter)July 5: The Urumqi massacre’s unanswered questions (Bitter Winter)How Chinese propaganda erased Mongolian identity - and much more (Bitter Winter)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)Een lach en een traan
China US$300 dating app 'marriage-or-refund' guarantee sparks intense online buzz (SCMP)Watch: Six-year-old girl from China sets new Rubik's Cube world record (BBC)Chinese restaurant chains put AI on the menu ($FT)An aging population in China inspires a new industry: Adult children for hire (The Washington Post)For Xi's critics, summit spectacle is fuel for jokes they can't tell (NYT)Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon (Reuters)Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet' (BBC)The Party bureaucrat who married his deceased sister (Bitter Winter)AI-gekte in China bereikt grens: overheid waarschuwt voor gevaarlijke app 'De Kreeft' ($de Volkskrant)Why are smugglers swarming East Africa for ants to send to China and Europe? ($SCMP)
