China has in recent years outspent the U.S. by $24 billion in the area of next-generation mobile internet technology known as 5G, potentially creating a "tsunami" that will be difficult to catch up with, according to a Deloitte study published Tuesday.
The deadly collapse of one of the dozen or so dams dotted along the Mekong River and its tributaries has highlighted the rapid development of a waterway that is increasingly important strategically for China and its neighbors.
The latest bit of America’s energy sector to feel the over-the-shoulder lash is the liquefied natural gas-export business. On Friday, LNG joined the list of goods that China will hit with tariffs in retaliation for U.S. ones. This is problematic when you consider China has taken 13 percent of U.S. LNG exports (and more like a quarter last winter), according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Christopher Robin, which is already in theaters in the U.S., is the second Disney movie to be rejected in China this year, following A Wrinkle in Time. Another source told THR that Christopher Robin was not necessarily snubbed because it stars Winnie the Pooh, and that the decision “likely has to do with the size and scope of the film given the foreign film quota.”
Gene A Bunin has spent the past 18 months talking to Uighur restaurant workers all over China. These conversations reveal how this Muslim minority feel the daily threat of arrest, detention and ‘re-education’
The China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), based in Beijing and part of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, conducted the first test of the "Starry Sky-2" aircraft last Friday.
Kate Merkel-Hess is an Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. She is the author of The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and co-editor (with Jeff Wasserstrom and Ken Pomeranz) of China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She was the founding editor of the China Beat blog and now serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies. She has published in both scholarly and general interest venues, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Current History, and the Journal of Social History. She is currently writing a book, Women and Their Warlords, which reconsiders warlordism and nation-building in China between the 1910s and the 1950s by examining elite gender relations and the role of powerful women in China’s political culture.
Zhou Na is an independent photographer and multimedia storyteller from China. She has worked as a freelancer based in Beijing since 2015. She was chosen as one of nine fellows of Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Program in 2017.
Zhou started her career in rural China. In 2012, she participated in a documentary project, “Left-Behind: The Rural Elderly,” co-produced by IFChina. This photography project enabled her and her seven project partners to go back to their own villages and visit hundreds of left-behind senior citizens living alone in order to document their experiences, stories, and feelings. The photographs and films were exhibited at factories and universities in Guangdong province. After, Zhou joined IFChina Original Studio, a non-governmental organization based in China’s southeastern Jiangxi province. IFChina is one of the nation’s pioneer organizations in the field of community art development.
Zhou has collaborated with various news outlets and non-profits, including ChinaFile, Sixth Tone, Tencent, iFeng News, NetEase, Greenpeace, and Goethe-Institut China, and she has worked as a video reporter at The Paper. She has covered a wide range of stories throughout China, including the Tianjin explosion, pneumoconiosis, food safety, environmental pollution, female migrant labor, and more.
Zhou received a Bachelor’s degree in Tourism English in 2009 and a graduate degree in Design Aesthetics in 2012.
It’s no secret that Professor Francis Fukuyama got it wrong in his classic “End of History” treatise, published in the dying days of the Cold War. More interesting is why he got it wrong. His conclusion that the Western model of democratic liberalism had triumphed – once and for all – came after watching Chinese students experience life at American universities.
In Beijing, the AFP reports that authorities have slated the neighborhood surrounding Ai's studio for redevelopment. According to the AP, Beijing has destroyed "large swaths of the suburbs over the past year in a building safety campaign."
