- Photo: Ping Jiang street, Suzhou, China, by cattan2011by Cindy Carter on April 25, 2024 at 1:09 am
Ping Jiang street, Suzhou, China, by cattan2011 (CC BY 2.0)
- Taiwanese Drag Queen’s Victory Sparks Quiet Joy Among Fans in Chinaby Alexander Boyd on April 25, 2024 at 12:37 am
Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen, has won the 16th season of the American reality TV competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her victory has been cause for quiet celebration in China, where drag is in the ascendant despite increased state repression of the LGBTQ+ community. Nymphia Wind is the drag persona of Leo Tsao, a
- Tighter U.S. Immigration Controls On Inbound Chinese Students Stoke Concernby Arthur Kaufman on April 24, 2024 at 7:38 pm
In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.” One of the first places that some of these hurdles manifest is
- Photo: Untitled (Fengjian village, Guangdong province), by Peter Chou Kee Liuby Cindy Carter on April 24, 2024 at 6:24 am
Untitled (Fengjian village, Guangdong province), by Peter Chou Kee Liu (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
- Weibo Users Discern Pro-natalist Propaganda in Sina “DINKs” Articleby Cindy Carter on April 23, 2024 at 9:25 pm
On April 14, Sina News Hot Topics published a lengthy article on Weibo under the clickbait headline “The First Batch of DINKs, Exposed: Where Are They Now, and Do They All Regret Not Having Kids?” The four-part article focused on ostensible profiles of DINK (“double income, no kids”) couples, most of whom were portrayed as
- U.S. Department of State – China Human Rights Report 2023by Cindy Carter on April 23, 2024 at 9:00 pm
- Photo: a long way home, by Ee Shawnby Cindy Carter on April 23, 2024 at 5:33 am
a long way home, by Ee Shawn (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
- Translation: The Problems of Inefficient Infrastructure Spending Are Beginning to Surfaceby Cindy Carter on April 23, 2024 at 3:17 am
After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure projects. The International Monetary Fund and Wall Street banks estimate China’s total outstanding off-balance-sheet government debt to hover between $7 trillion to $11 trillion U.S.
- VOA – Fact-checker on China’s Weibo targets US Embassy, Russian state mediaby Cindy Carter on April 22, 2024 at 10:12 pm
- Wadham College, University of Oxford – “It’s the largest underclass in human history…”by Cindy Carter on April 20, 2024 at 5:01 am
- Quote of the Day: “Do You Think Xi Jinping is a Dictator?”by Alexander Boyd on April 20, 2024 at 4:46 am
Hu Chenfeng, a Chinese content creator who first rose to fame making videos about poverty, has been suspended from Bilibili and Weibo after a livestream viewer asked him: “Do you think Xi Jinping is a dictator?” CDT a published a video of the incident: After uttering “fuck” under his breath, Hu began denouncing the question-asker
- Photo: Untitled, by Yining Zhangby Cindy Carter on April 20, 2024 at 3:49 am
Untitled, by Yining Zhang (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
- Scholz Visit to China Draws Trepidation Over Germany’s Economic Dependence, European Disunityby Arthur Kaufman on April 19, 2024 at 10:41 pm
This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz completed a three-day visit to China. It was his second trip since becoming chancellor and his first since the German government produced its China strategy last July. His previous trip to China in November 2022, only weeks after Xi’s coronation at the 20th Party Congress, was heavily criticized for
- Photo: Forest Park Shanghai, China, by sung ming whangby Cindy Carter on April 19, 2024 at 6:56 am
Forest Park Shanghai, China, by sung ming whang (CC BY 2.0)
- Quote of the Day: Official Disposable Income Figures Derided as “Today’s Daily Dose of Humor”by Cindy Carter on April 18, 2024 at 4:57 pm
On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was off to a good start in 2024, with reported 5.3% year-on-year GDP growth in the first quarter of the year. The better-than-expected data was touted by various Chinese state media outlets online, although many of those news posts had comment filtering
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