The United States should be aware of the close military ties between Beijing and Moscow, China’s defence minister said during a visit to Russia, which has been facing international isolation over the killing of a former spy in Britain.
China hit back at the United States on Wednesday with proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of American soybeans, cars, chemicals and other goods, in a move likely to stoke fears that the countries’ escalating confrontation could become an all-out trade war.
China hit back at the United States on Wednesday with proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of American soybeans, cars, chemicals and other goods, in a move likely to stoke fears that the countries’ escalating confrontation could become an all-out trade war.
Although trade tensions between the U.S. and China show no signs of abating, there are some reasons for cautious optimism.
Sixth Tone published a series of profiles of five distinguished Chinese photographers working in various genres: Liu Hueng Shing, Zhang Hai’er, Zhang Kechun,
In the age of bullet trains and Maglevs, their poky forebears are still the only mode of rail transportation in many rural areas of China.
In 2014, Tencent published a photo story about the only nursing home for former sent-down youth with mental illness. This winter, the Beijing Yurun Foundation helped two residents of the nursing home in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang province visit their homes in Tianjin for several days. For one of the residents, it was his first trip home in decades.
The northeastern city of Harbin is renowned for the fanciful and gigantic structures it builds for its annual winter ice festival. Before the exhibit opened this year, Sixth Tone photographers Shi Yangkun and Wu Huiyuan documented the group of middle-aged men who work mostly as farmers in the summer, as they rose at 4:00 a.m. in freezing temperatures to cut huge blocks of ice from the Songhua River for the exhibit’s sculptors.
China’s national liquor is baijiu, an alcohol distilled from fermented sorghum. Maotai, the most renowned brand of baijiu, has been brewed in the town of Maotai, Guizhou province, in southwestern China for centuries, and in recent decades has been a staple of lavish official banquets and a widely accepted currency for bribes. Up until a few years ago, almost everyone in the town of Maotai was involved in the business. But, according to Sixth Tone, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has caused the sales of baijiu to plummet.
In this multimedia piece on urban decline, Chen Ronghui photographs the bleak landscapes of three northeastern Chinese cities in economic decline, and the lives of their residents. As Wang Yun writes in this piece, “We’re used to thinking of Chinese cities in the context of growth. But behind this statement lurks the assumption that urbanization is constant, uniform, and predictable. In reality, dying industries and shortages of opportunities are forcing people out of certain urban areas.”
