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Fortune
The ironic defeatism is fueled by internet celebrities, through music, mobile games, TV shows, sad-faced emojis and pessimistic slogans.
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Stratfor
Beijing is employing tried and true methods to slow ballooning corporate debt, but its changed circumstances make success far from certain.
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Stratfor
The long-term effects of repealing the policy may not be what Beijing intends.
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China Dialogue
The price of environmental degradation and pollution is expressed in human suffering, in impaired development, in remediation costs, in lost days and lower quality of life
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Christina Larson
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The Guardian
Mass relocation from remote rural villages is part of Xi Jinping’s goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2020
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South China Morning Post
STEM education is the next big thing in China after learning English amid the country’s push to become a global powerhouse in artificial intelligence.
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Reuters
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
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Business Insider
Chinese people are being introduced to a scheme that monitors their behaviour, scores them, and doles out punishments and rewards.
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Next Big Future
China likely to remove all limits family size this year
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Foreign Affairs
It is possible to see how Xinjiang’s reeducation drive could end up influencing the nation’s future social credit system: those who end up falling below a certain score could be required to undergo reeducation treatments to greater or lesser degrees.
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The Wall Street Journal
Ride-hailing firm Lyft has raised new capital that doubles its valuation from last year to $15.1 billion and gives it more firepower as bigger rival Uber tracks toward an IPO.
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Economist
No province has many babies, but some shortfalls are much worse than others
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The Diplomat
More than a million Uyghurs are believed to be in Chinese “re-education centers.”
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BuzzFeedNews
China is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles.
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Global Times
China may reward families with a second child or more next year to arrest its dropping fertility rate, and the family planning policy will undergo fundamental changes, Chinese demographers said.
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The Guardian
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New York Times
Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.
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Vox
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Business Insider
After scrapping the "one-child policy" in 2016, China had hoped a baby boom would hit but women still aren't having children. Chinese provinces are now offering baby bonuses, wedding subsidies, and extra maternity and miscarriage prevention leave to lure women into parenthood.
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CNET
They're called Doves and they don't come in peace.
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Project 2049
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Bloomberg Quicktake
Chinese consumers are outraged and panicked by revelations that two drugmakers sold ineffective vaccines. Similar healthcare scandals used to be swept under ...
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The Journal Blog
“The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at…
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The New York Times
Ethnic Uighurs in vast numbers have been sent to camps as part of a campaign to remove any devotion to Islam, China’s most sweeping internment program since the Mao era.
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MailOnline
Concerns have been raised over China's apparent crackdown on Christianity as the atheist ruling Community party continues to intensify its control over religious freedom in the country.
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CNN Health
At kindergarten, three-year-old Seven Kong has his schoolmates to play with, but at home his best friend is a kidney-shaped, lime-coloured android named BeanQ.
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Marketplace
A government-backed study says the country's internet users are worried about missing out on online knowledge and are willing to pay for educational podcasts.
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PolyMatter
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Reddit
15 votes, 48 comments. I am writing this post, because there hasn't been any discussion about Islamophobia in China. Now some people say that its …
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Stratfor
Beijing has loudly proclaimed that its "anti-extremism" campaign involving Xinjiang's Uighurs is an internal matter. Now, however, the United States is considering whether to slap sanctions on China over the matter.
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Quartz
Get ready for the future of the internet, courtesy of China—Tech giants like Weibo, Alibaba and Tencent spent years growing behind the Great Firewall, nurtur...
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The Atlantic
Why millions of women play the mobile game Love and Producer
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Stratfor
Chinese society is on the verge of a structural transformation even more profound than the long and painful project of economic rebalancing, which the Communist Party is anxiously beginning to undertake.
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VisualPolitik EN
Check out Morning Brew: https://www.morningbrew.com/?utm_source=visualpolitik&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=jan2018 The end of 2018 couldn’t have been more...
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CaspianReport
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The Star
Communist Party’s official outlets scouring country for new media specialists to reach 800 million web users and squeeze out ‘undesirable influences’.
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Quartz
Becoming a football power is a big part of President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream, a vision of China’s future as a respected world power. Students as young as ...
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The New York Times
Can the state keep up with the rapid aging of such a large population?
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VICE Asia
Since the socialist revolution, the rights of Chinese women have been written into the country's constitution. Under Mao, unprecedented numbers of women join...
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Wall Street Journal
After locking up as many as a million people in camps in Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are destroying Uighur neighborhoods and purging the region's culture. ...
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AsiaNews.it
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there were 15.23 million births in 2018, two million fewer than in the previous year. In 2029 the population will start to decline. In 2050 the employed will have to pay support 400 million people over the age of 60.
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CaspianReport
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Stratfor
Previous attempts to harness patriotic fervor have boomeranged on the Chinese state, leading to unwanted social disruptions.
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Variety
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CNBC
China's seemingly unfettered push into facial recognition is getting some high-level pushback.
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The Conversation
An anthropologist who interviewed Uighurs in China found different ways in which Chinese authorities used checkpoints, social media and smartphones to identify, categorize and control this group.
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The Economist
Officials pray that the goddess Mazu will help them woo Taiwan
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The Economist
Millions more Muslims are being targeted by the Communist Party
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South China Morning Post
A look at China’s ratio of working-age population to seniors is ominously similar to Japan’s in 1992, boding ill for the Chinese dream and the global economy as a whole.
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Market Watch
As the People’s Republic of China marks its 70th anniversary, look at how the lives of everyday people have been transformed.
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Mckinsey & Family
New research from a survey of 4,300 Chinese digital consumers suggests a path forward for brands and marketers seeking the next wave of growth.
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Stratfor
While intended to safeguard its power, Beijing's renewed nationalist agenda risks leaving it with less room to govern and more enemies to contend with.
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The Economist
Even if their husbands beat them
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Quartz
After the NBA's Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey voiced his support for Hong Kong protesters on Twitter, China’s state-run TV channel CCTV cancele...
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Jing Daily
A new HSBC Jade report suggests high-net-worth Chinese consumers say personal growth is more important than luxury products.
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The Economist
Those who built the new China are still suffering for it
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The Economist
Trying harder to prevent and treat it could save both lives and money
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NBC
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Luxury Society
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese govern...
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Li's Newsletter
Dispatches from Beijing
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Taiwan News
Say goodbye to your guildmates in China, as CCP extends its political censorship to online gaming world | 2020/04/15
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Vice
“Sadly most Chinese people really believe the U.S. brought the virus to China and they call it ‘USA virus,’” Lucy, a 45-year-old Chinese American who recently returned to China to take care of her parents, told VICE News.
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Economist
No longer are foundlings given the surnames “Party” or “State”
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Wired
The band hasn't been cool for years. But its Minutes to Midnight logo is everywhere in the most populous country in the world.
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The Guardian
As China comes under attack abroad, nationalist sentiment at home is being stoked – at the expense of other voices
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The Economist
Mao’s birthplace now makes raucous quiz shows
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Medium
It all started one fateful day many years ago in Hong Kong. I was six or seven years old at the time. A couple of friends and I were sitting around in class, talking about how much we loved…
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Economist
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