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Hong Kong’s sovereignty returned to China in 1997 but the Chinese government has found it hard to convince some Hongkongers, especially the younger generation, that it’s been a welcome homecoming to their historical and cultural roots. The ...
One of Xi Jinping’s long list of aspirations for his time in office is to eradicate “extreme poverty” in China by 2020. According to Xinhua, over 68 million rural people have been “lifted out of poverty” in the last five years, with a ...
Global markets were cheered last Saturday by news that Beijing and Washington are putting tariffs on hold as they try to reach a deal in the trade row that has strained ties since the beginning of the year. The formal statement said that the ...
What do a nightclub bouncer from Liverpool, a wind farm investor from Sicily, a stockbroker and investment advisor from New York and an insurance salesman from Zhejiang Province have in common? Mention their names – Curtis Warren, Vito ...
For forty years after the 1949 revolution, the island of Hainan was part of Guangdong province for administrative purposes. Its economy was rudimentary, relying on fishing, rubber production and coconuts. The planners didn’t push for much more, ...
Free tickets for the Panda reserve, cheap housing and Rmb1,000 ($159.10) in payment just for turning up for an interview: these are some of the things that Chinese cities are offering in the fierce battle to attract graduate talent. The ...
Sino-US relations seemed solid enough last November, when Donald Trump was delighted by his lavish “state visit-plus” to Beijing. He also came home with $250 billion worth of deals (see WiC387). But Washington’s relationship with Beijing ...
In Mandarin the word for the palm of the hand is zhang, which can also denote the action of gripping, while ‘fist’ (or quan) sounds the same as the word for ‘power’. That’s why in official portraits from the Qing ...
This is the first of many” was the promise from Donald Trump on Thursday as he signed an executive order that could slap 25% tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports. The order follows an investigation from the US Trade ...
“To build the fate of a country on the renown of one or two people is very unhealthy and very dangerous.” So said Deng Xiaoping in 1989, although his warning went unremarked in the Chinese press this week after news that presidential term ...
