Alreay rapidly running out of mothers, experts warn China’s new urbanisation policy will thwart its ‘birth-friendly society’ goal
At a twice-a-decade top political gathering last month, China announced plans to build a “birth-friendly society” – pledging to implement measures long-called for by population experts, such as lowering childcare and education costs.
University graduates in China now ‘full-time children’ or ‘rotten-tail kids’ as high unemployment bites
Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept low-paying work or even subsist on their parents’ pensions, a plight that has created a new working class of “rotten-tail kids”. The phrase has become a social media buzzword this year,...
United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in five years, both eye Taiwan
Such discussions cannot replace formal negotiations “that require participants to speak authoritatively on issues that are often highly compartmentalised within (Chinese) government circles,” the spokesperson said.
Pig and haram: To turn off Muslims, US Army cast Chinese vaccines as derived from pork, therefore forbidden
By 2010, the military began using social media tools, leveraging phony accounts to spread messages of sympathetic local voices – themselves often secretly paid by the United States government. As time passed, a growing web of military and intelligence contractors built online news websites to pump US-approved narratives into foreign countries.
Ping pong: How China’s scramble to link US Army to the origin and spread of Covid stirred US propaganda machine
Health workers and the government struggled to get Filipinos vaccinated against Covid-19, despite mobile sites like this one, operating in May 2021 in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. At that time, the Philippines had one of the worst inoculation rates in Southeast Asia. The primary vaccine available then was Sinovac. Credit: Reuters
China keeps off as world leaders join Ukraine summit in Zurich in test of Kyiv’s diplomatic clout
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow – demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.
Elite Chinese scientists reveal how they engage in fraud cheat to keep jobs as they have ‘no choice’
In 2015, the Chinese government introduced the Double First-Class Initiative to establish “world-class” universities and disciplines. Universities selected for inclusion in the programme receive extra funding, whereas those that perform poorly risk being delisted, says Wang.
Central African Republic suspends Chinese Daqing SARL gold mining company for alleged links to armed groups
The Central African Republic has been in conflict since 2013, when predominantly Muslim rebels seized power and forced the President Francois Bozize from office. Mostly Christian militias fought back. A 2019 peace deal only lessened the fighting and six of the 14 armed groups that signed later left the agreement. The Coalition of Patriots for Change was founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the agreement.
Irony of Chinese investors who lost money in bank fraud being detained after protest
With such dissent brewing, “the central government is going to be eager to halt the protests in their tracks to prevent widespread unrest as the economy falters,” said Andrew Collier, managing director at Hong Kong-based Orient Capital Research, an independent China-focused research firm.
$668m Nairobi Expressway run by state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp is a snapshot of how China engages with Africa
Daily average use in March was already 57,000 vehicles, exceeding a 2049 target of around 55,000 set by CRBC in a 2019 presentation on the project’s economic viability seen by Reuters.
