Displaying one’s wealth publicly on the Internet is becoming increasingly dangerous in China. The authorities complain that “this kind of activity seriously violates China’s social values and exposes misguided content to the public.” Well-known and widely used platforms such as Xiaohongshu (literally “Little Red Book”) and Douyin have already drawn consequences, banning certain online challenges, […]
Despite everything we know today about what happened on the night of June 4-5, 1989 in Beijing: There is no footage from the events on Tiananmen Square itself. But one image has burned itself into the collective memory: The Tank Man. The photo shows a man in the distance, standing in front of a tank […]
Queuing for the first haircut in two months. For many people in Shanghai, this was probably high on their to-do list after the lockdown. It’s handy when, as in the photo, you can book a communal appointment with the hairdresser together with some of your neighbors.
China will cut the sales tax on certain low-emission cars by half to five percent. With this, the central government wants to increase consumption after the long lockdown in Shanghai. Due to the two-month lockdown in Shanghai, car sales in the metropolis slumped by more than 30 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, according to […]
“Wuetenes Feuer” is set in the 1990s. What has changed in China since that time?First, you have to ask, where has what changed? This novel is set in a village, presumably in the Hubei province, and some of the changes that have taken place in the countryside are different from those that have happened in […]
Shi Taifeng has been appointed President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The 65-year-old previously served as Secretary of the Communist Party in Inner Mongolia from 2019 to 2022. Shi succeeds Xie Fuzhan.Xu Chengguang was appointed Deputy Minister of transportation. Most recently, Xu had made a name for himself at the Ministry of […]
Canada excludes Huawei from the 5G rollout over security concerns. According to Bloomberg, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said the state-backed Chinese telecommunications company poses a threat to national security. Chinese company ZTE will also reportedly be excluded. Companies that have already installed equipment from Huawei or ZTE will have to remove it by June 2024 […]
