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Taiwanese Drag Queen’s Victory Sparks Quiet Joy Among Fans in China
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 dr...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/taiwanese-drag-queens-victory-sparks-quiet-joy-in-china/
Tighter U.S. Immigration Controls On Inbound Chinese Students Stoke Concern
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 t...
Translation: The Problems of Inefficient Infrastructure Spending Are Beginning to Surface
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 u...
Scholz Visit to China Draws Trepidation Over Germany’s Economic Dependence, European Disunity
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 strate...
China Dismisses Western Wishes That It Can Resolve Tensions Between Iran, Israel
Throughout Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, China has sidestepped the conflict, criticized it from the sidelines, accused Western countries of hypocrisy on Gaza and Xinjiang, and benefited from in...
Chinese Social Media Ablaze With Discussion of Germany Legalizing Weed
A German “pro-China” influencer became the latest target of nationalist ire after her writing on Germany’s legalization of recreational cannabis use was interpreted as a call for China to �...
Quote of the Day: Hikvision and Dahua Claim to “Support t...t on Human Rights, Labour, Environment, and Anti-Corruption”
Two Chinese manufacturers of video surveillance equipment—state-owned Hikvision and publicly traded company Dahua Technology—have joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in an attempt...
Whirlwind Weeks of Diplomacy In Beijing Center On Ukraine, Green Tech, Taiwan
Over a whirlwind two weeks of diplomacy in Beijing, China has sought to strengthen its ties to both the United States and Russia—a difficult balancing act. Xi Jinping took a phone call with U.S...
Tales of Anti-Fraud Center Overreach: Freezing Your Bank Cards “For Your Own Good”
On April 6, a Weibo user from Zhejiang province reported a case of local anti-fraud center overreach that resulted in his bank cards and Alipay account being frozen after he made a work-related c...
Attitudes in Global South Tilt Towards China at Expense of U.S.
Recent public opinion polls from countries in the Global South point to a slight shift in attitudes vis-a-vis China and the U.S. By small but significant margins, a growing number of people in ma...
Quote of the Day: “We Have Never Experienced Such Blatant Efforts to Evade Scrutiny of Court Proceedings in Any Country.”
An incident on Wednesday, in which a representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was denied permission to enter Hong Kong to observe the national security trial of political and media figu...
Journalists Document Decline of Media Freedom in China, Hong Kong
In its annual report on the state of media freedom in China last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) described how authorities used COVID prevention measures to “strangle�...
Communist Youth League World War III Hype Video Goes Viral, Before Censors Step In
A Party organization’s flippant invocation of “World War III” using video game terms went viral over the weekend, thrilling some nationalists but perturbing other Chinese netizens. The vide...
Chinese Migrants Face Perilous Journeys En Route to the U.S.
Last week, the bodies of eight Chinese nationals were discovered off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, after their boat capsized along a route often used by migrants attempting to reach the U.S. This ...
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/04/chinese-migrants-face-perilous-journeys-en-route-to-the-u-s/
China’s State Media Cooperation with Brazilian Media Yields Soft Power Gains
Efforts by the Chinese state and its state-affiliated actors to engage with global media can be seen as part of a broader drive to enhance China’s soft power and shape narratives in the state�...