News China Social: China-US trade talks could resume soon, but Washington’s tariffs have to go, state media say
China’s state media said recent purchases of American agricultural products could mean that a resumption of trade negotiations is near, and that the removal of all US tariffs on Chinese goods remained Beijing’s highest priority.Since US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed
News China Social: China's Web Challenges The West By Innovating Faster, Like 15-Second Video Apps
Let me count the ways. China's mobile apps offer all-in-one services, not the silo-type Western model of one service per app. Chinese apps also are more social and interactive. And they integrate ...
News China Social: Gobi Partners leads China VC charge into Southeast Asia
Some of the most recent tech trends in China are also gaining traction here. Much like the social e-commerce boom led by Taobao merchants, SEA individual and part-time sellers on Facebook, Facebook ...
News China Social: The ‘Great Firewall’: China censors videos, social media posts of Hong Kong protests
As Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam offered her latest apology Tuesday over her bungled attempt to push through a controversial extradition law, activists in mainland China busily posted video of ...
News China Social: Facebook Copies China's WeChat Once Again. Who Would Have Guessed This?
Now Facebook is taking a lesson. But don't count on Facebook to play in the China sandbox. The social media is blocked by the Great Firewall. ...
News China Social: China’s trial program to rate citizens on public behavior is a bureaucratic mess
But China’s social credit scores arguably go a step further by using the country’s vast surveillance network — public closed-circuit cameras, payment systems and more — to monitor citizens. While good ...
News China Social: China’s new ‘social credit system’ turns Orwell’s ‘1984’ into reality
The government algorithm will go as far as to install an “embarrassing” ring tone on the phones of China’s deadbeat caste system, the laolai, shaming them every time they get a call in public.
News China Social: China's social media troll 'army' wages war on Uighurs
The Chinese troll army suddenly struck one evening, bombarding the Facebook pages of two pro-Uighur groups with an array of verbal grenades and offensive images. The social media onslaught was the handiwork of the self-styled Diba Central Army, a Chinese patriotic group that has targeted other pages
News China Social: The NHL is making headway in China, and since it’s the Year of the Pig, well ...
Hockey's popularity has soared since the NHL first took teams to China in 2017. Since 2019 is the Year of the Pig, Chinese fans have taken interest in Raleigh’s Hamilton the Pig during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
News China Social: China's Muted Economy Is Not Nurturing Another Commodities Super-Cycle
But in a bid to minimize the effects of the global slowdown on its economy, China announced a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) economic stimulus package on November 9, 2008, centered on infrastructure ...
News China Social: Bill Shorten Wants Australia to Embrace China. But at What Cost?
“If I’m P.M., I welcome the rise of China in the world,” he said in a post on the Chinese social media platform WeChat that was aimed at Australia’s 1.2 million voters of Chinese descent. Mr. Shorten, ...
News China Social: China’s state party posts defiant message about trade war with U.S. on social media site
President Trump loves to badger China on Twitter. Now China is fighting back on its own social media platform. The People’s Daily, a state newspaper for China’s Communist Party, posted a bright red ...
