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The west turns a blind eye to Xi Jinping's repressive regime in China (Letters to The Guardian)*** From Asia to the Arctic, how Trump's war is pushing his rivals closer (Newsweek)*** The future, made in China (The New Yorker)How China won the Iran War (Paul Krugman)If you're expecting policymakers to come to the rescue of China's flagging economy, we have some bad news (Trivium China)China's Politburo pledges policy support, spending to counteract sluggish growth ($SCMP)The Russian burden for China (Appia Institute)What China gained from US launching a failed war on Iran (Newsweek)Zheng Yongnian on local government overreach and the private economy (Sinification)China wins the Iran war without firing a shot (Asia Times)Economie - Nationaal
Dreaming of Zhu Rongji's China (Sinification)Goodbye, comrade Zhu (Appia Institute)Why China's war on deflation is faltering in real time (Asia Times)The legacy of Zhu Rongji (Project Syndicate)Zhu Rongji, former premier who pushed China to a market economy, dies at 97 (NYT)China chip exports accelerate to 117% as front-loading hangover hits other sectors (Tech Times)The rising price of a cheap renminbi (Project Syndicate)China's 25-year tax reach will cost it more than it collects (Asian Times)Who gets to explain development? (US-China Perception Monitor)How likely is Beijing to walk the talk on boosting consumption? ($SCMP)Economie - Internationaal
China shipper to start regular Arctic service as South Korea tests waters ($Nikkei)Communities struggle to hold Chinese miners to account in Peru (Dialogue Earth)Is China really a beggar-thy-neighbor power? ($Project Syndicate)How China can corner the AI market with inferior technology (The Washington Post)China exit rules tightened to guard rare earth, battery secrets (Asia Times)The limits of Asia's two major growth models (Project Syndicate)New exit/entry regs target export control violations (Trivium China)China's exports feed the Global South's industrial engines (SCMP)Beijing moves to waive panda bond fees through 2028 as part of efforts to promote RMB internationalization (Trivium China)China's cleaning robots mop up 70% of global share through innovation ($Nikkei Asia)Internationale Relaties
6G is coming. Will the West let China write the rule book? ($The Washington Post)Why foreign workers are still climbing mountains of paperwork for a job in China ($SCMP)China vs Japan: the battle for the global microphone to reshape post-war identity ($SCMP)China’s World AI Cooperation Organization and the future of AI governance (EuroAsia and the World)China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth (Asia Times)Paradise lost: the forced exodus of Lifechanyuan's Thailand home (Bitter Winter)Beijing warns Manila of 'powerful' South China Sea toolbox ready for 'head-on blow’' (SCMP)China-Holy See relations: sinicization and long term results (Appia Institute)Chinese satellite imagery analysis challenges US-Iran war claims (SCMP)SCO Foreign Ministers' meeting recap (The China-MENA Newsletter)China - Verenigde Staten
US-China ‘Board of Investment’ stalls before expected Trump-Xi meeting ($SCMP)Trump fires on multiple fronts to break China's minerals monopoly (Asia Times)Fearing deflated China demand, US soybean growers pivot to new buyers and biofuel ($SCMP)China dominates the battery war. Nevada is America’s secret weapon to win it back (Washington Examiner)Historian Wang Gungwu on US credibility and why Xi thinks ‘only the party can save China' ($SCMP)US slams Chinese 'nature reserve' as effort to claim South China Sea (Al Jazeera)Caught in the middle: China takes tit-for-tat measures against US entities (Trivium China)The US is burning through weapons in Iran. Russia and China are taking note (NYT)China's AI is surging across Africa. That should worry Silicon Valley (NYT)As US and China throw up tit-for-tat sanctions, is Trump's Xi meeting at risk? (CNN)China - Europa
Germans emerge as Europe's biggest China hawks as economic pain begins to bite (SCMP)Brussels vs Beijing: The new trade battle begins in Morocco and Turkey (Euronews)China's export offensive turns Europe into a dumping ground (Bitter Winter)Germany may be searching its supply chains for leverage on China. Will it find any? ($SCMP)Watching China in Europe - August 2026 (Watching China in Europe)The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry (BBC)EU-China trade war: Beijing turns the screws as Brussels tests limits of restraint ($SCMP)How Volkswagen's flying-car dream crashed in China (Reuters)EU plans to pay China to help Ukraine kill Russians (Asia Times)China hits out at British Steel nationalisation (BBC)China - Nederland
China's DUV lithography still lags ASML by four generations (Asia Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China's scale, innovation, business dynamism offer major opportunities across industries: Dutch business representative (Global Times)China targets strategic sectors in Netherlands, report warns, citing ASML (Nikkei Asia)Dutch trade minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma in China for high-stakes talks on tech war, tariff tensions (SCMP)Uyghur rights: Dutch Parliament hits Beijing where it hurts (Bitter Winter)The Hague City Council bans pro-Chinese Lantern Festival (Bitter Winter)The Netherlands vows to protect Uyghurs against China’s transnational harassment (Bitter Winter)The doppa on our heads, the homeland in our hearts: Amsterdam's lonely Uyghur on doppa day (Bitter Winter)Un-sanctioned: China to welcome Dutch trade minister Sjoerdsma amid Nexperia, ASML discord ($SCMP)Politiek
*** The making and remaking of Chinese totalitarianism ($Project Syndicate)Why AI is a risk to Communist China ($The Economist)Chinese catholics and SSPX (Appia Institute)La Chine au cœur du retour des empires (Le Vent de la Chine)As Xi looks to extend his rule, he leans on a longtime ally, Cai Qi (NYT)The politics of policy research in China (The East is Read)Xi Jinping writes 'struggle' into the Party's DNA (Trivium China)Xi codifies his doctrine for running the Party (Trivium China)Uncle Cai’s growing empire: One of China's most influential officials just got even more powerful (Trivium China)Jennifer Lind, 'Autocracy 2.0'. Half-vicious: Innovation via smart authoritarianism (US-China Perception Monitor)Maatschappij
CCP scholar: China's new Ethnic Unity Law moves from administration to assimilation (Bitter Winter)The lonely Chinese men being conned by fake brides (BBC)Is China's party newspaper carrying more stories highlighting women's role as mothers? ($SCMP)China's still a union shop: the state of organized labor in the world's factory (The US-China Perception Monitor)China’s AI drive threatens the world's largest workforce ($The Economist)Yao Yang: Hong Wang's groundbreaking achievement and Chinese women's retreating ground (Pekingnology) China's nonsmokers try to clear the air, one confrontation at a time (NYT)China's 'silver economy' draws Japan nursing care equipment retailers ($Nikei Asia)How China keeps tabs on foreigners (NYT)Turnover at the top: 17 people have held title of China's richest person in past 27 years ($SCMP)Militaire zaken
PLA scientists say submarine cables carrying 99% of global data could be 'easy target' ($SCMP)'Surprising' how quickly China’s military is closing gap with US: analyst Lyle Goldstein (SCMP) 4 Aug 2026What China's sub-launched missile test really signaled (Asia Times)China's often flawed arms still buy lasting influence (Asia Times)China's nuke missile test routine or cause for Pacific panic? (Asia Times)China test fires long-range ballistic missile in the Pacific, angering neighbors (NYT)Xi taps new military anti-graft chief, promotes two generals (Reuters)Why electric cars and robot makers are being linked to China's military (Newsweek)China’s sailless submarine takes warfare to the seabed (Asia Times)China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos (Reuters)Cultuur
Documentary films: 'I thought it didn't stand a cat's chance in hell': Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China (The Guardian) Food delivery rider wins China's top literary prize (BBC)Why are Chinese audiences going for Korean musicals rather than Western shows? ($SCMP)What the I Ching is really about ($SCMP)China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines (The Guardian)Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China (BBC)Plato goes to Beijing: Why Xi Jinping wants China to become a world leader in Greek and Latin studies (Bitter Winter)When the esoteric West sought the Dao - and discovered its own reflection (Bitter Winter)"Was I scared going back to China? No': Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home (The Guardian)Le Serpent se faufile, le Cheval hennit (Le Vent de la Chine)Wetenschap en Onderwijs
Video: A glimpse from China of AI's future (The Economist)China's world-level plans get a Beidaihe push (Newsweek)Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid ($SCMP)Two Chinese win world's top Maths prize for solving century-old problems (BBC)Is the future of AI Chinese? (Newsweek)To prosper, China must become a magnet for international students (SCMP)China's race to build commercial spaceports (Beijing Scroll)China shutters 30,000 preschools and primary schools in a single year ($Caixin)Compasses, not maps: China is building a different type of AI (Asia Times)China hails breakthrough in 'artificial sun' project (Newsweek)Milieu
China planted 78 billion new trees - and seriously messed up its water cycle (Popular Mechanics)40% of flights grounded in Shanghai as long-lived Typhoon Dolphin moves north ($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)Chinese scientists turn to bamboo to strengthen the Great Green Wall ($SCMP)Beijing's evolving carbon road map balances climate targets and energy security (SCMP)China’s desire for endless youth is wiping out donkeys – can scientists help? (SCMP)China's coal consumption to plateau by 2030, report says ($Caixin)Rampen en ongelukken
China's Long March 7A rocket explodes after launch, satellite lost ($SCMP)China has banned hidden retractable car door handles. How are they dangerous – and will Australia follow their lead? (The Guardian)Watch: Flooded towns and evacuations as Chile hit by heavy rain (BBC)Giant boulder as big as multi-story building collapses in Chongqing landslide with risks of secondary rockfall looming (Global Times)Factory fire kills at least 28 in China's 'shoe capital'Venomous snakes escape breeding farms in southern China during flooding (The Guardian)'The water just came so fast': Typhoon triggers floods and rare tornadoes in China (BBC)China says pilot who flew into skyscraper had thoughts of death (NYT)Crash contre la tour CITIC : les angles morts de la sécurité aérienne chinoise (Le Vent de la China)Small plane crashes into tallest building in Beijing (NYT)Schandalen
Corruption: Another financial official bites the dust (Trivium China)China launches global tax hunt going back decades ($FT)Former president of China Development Bank under probe (Xinhua)Politburo member Ma Xingrui's downfall exposes shadowy network tied to Evergrande, Vanke ($Caixin)'Even Politburo members can be touched': what the latest purge says about Xi Jinping's China (The Guardian)How I was kicked out of China (NYT)China links family of ex-Politburo member Ma Xingrui to 'rampant corruption' (SCMP) China purges top official over corruption and sex charges (NYT)China purges top official over corruption and sex charges (NYT)The Chinese graduate accused of being Mexico's 'fentanyl king' (BBC)Sport
With no team in World Cup, China fans rally around a red card-happy referee (BBC)The Chinese sports brand taking on Nike and Adidas (BBC)China views sports industry as new growth driver in next five years (Xinhua)Chinese government unveils plan to boost football development and youth training (Xinhua)Third division Chinese football team penalized for attempting to gift match officials (Global Times)Two securities officials fall to their deaths amid China's graft sweep ($Caixin)China's pro-wrestlers search for a star to bring the sport out of the shadows (The Guardian)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)Taiwan
Inspired by Ukraine's battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion (NYT)Why was Taiwan's president evacuated in the middle of the night? (BBC)Taiwan's path to victory is unclear (Asia Times)Taiwan tests how it would resist a Chinese siege at sea (NYT)The US-Taiwan relationship is stronger than the headlines suggest (Brookings)Taiwan opens door to Starlink – but now it must wait to see if Elon Musk is ready to enter ($SCMP)Taiwan eyes local AI as digital 'bulwark' against Chinese influence ($Nikkei Asia)Dwindling US firepower doesn't shrink China's Taiwan trap (Asia Times)China raises pressure on Taiwan with expanded coast guard patrols (NYT)Why did Sanae Takaichi make outrageous remarks about intervening in the Taiwan Strait situation? (Think Brics)Hongkong
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)Hong Kong eateries welcome dogs as city relaxes ban (AP)Hong Kong slams Washington Post commentary on national security law changes (SCMP)Hong Kong’s nightmare gets darker (The Washington Post Editorial)Hong Kong artist who tried to mark Tiananmen massacre with red thread intercepted by police (The Guardian)Donald Trump does ‘not feel optimistic’ for Jimmy Lai after speaking with Xi Jinping (The Guardian)Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai wins freedom of speech award in Germany (The Guardian)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 ($SCMP)Tibet
In death, a Tibetan activist finally got the world's attention (NYT)Wang Huning tours Tibet to enforce the new Ethnic Unity Law (Bitter Winter)What Lobga Rangzen's self-immolation in New York tells the Uyghurs (Bitter Winter)After a Tibetan set himself on fire in New York: how Tibetans react (Bitter Winter)China will use AI to shape the international narrative on Tibet (Bitter Winter)Tibetan man dies after setting himself on fire outside UN in New York, activists say (Reuters)The Chinese Communist Party teaches Tibetan Buddhism to Tibetan Buddhists (Biter Winter) Tibet scholars urged to use Marxism to promote Beijing's agenda (Bitter Winter)'Sinicizing' Tibetan Buddhism, one inspection tour at a time (Bitter Winter)Two Tibetan monks 'disappeared' into the Chinese jail system (Bitter Winter)Xinjiang
The August 4, 2008, Semen Road Uyghur attack: was it really 'terrorism'? (Bitter Winter)China's transnational anti-Uyghur strategy: new research by Zenz and Tohti (Bitter Winter)China's Ethnic Unity Law: Uyghurs in the diaspora already see its effects (Bitter Winter)The East Turkestan flag at the World Cup (Bitter Winter)Coming together against silence: reflections on the 3rd International Uyghur Forum, ten years after the camps (Bitter Winter)Uyghur fathers, Uyghur children: persecution and resilience across generations (Bitter Winter)Stop Uyghur forced labor: an event in the UK Parliament (Bitter Winter)Two Uyghurs were sentenced to death for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Thai history. But doubts remain (Bitter Winter)Uyghurs and the Middle East: The wedge issue that doesn't wedge (The China-MENA Newsletter)Sick and pensionless: the long punishment of a Xinjiang Falun Gong professor (Trivium China)Binnen-Mongolie
The Great Solar Wall in Inner Mongolia: China doubles down on its ambitious effort to tame deserts ($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
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)Group of dogs that went missing in China go viral after walking 17km home (The GuardianChinese university tells students to 'fall in love' during spring break (Reuters)Chinese national charged for trying to smuggle 2,000 ants from Kenya (BBC)Beijing pastry shop overrun by shoppers after Xi Jinping's visit (The Guardian)
