Belt and Road interview: Scholar Dragan Pavlicevic on BRI and China’s foreign policy
It’s been over five and a half years since Chinese President Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 first revealed the hugely ambitious idea of a “Silk…
U.S.-China supply chains and innovation: The risks the Huawei hawks don’t understand
The ongoing drama with China’s largest and most innovative technology company, Huawei, illustrates how the narrative on innovation in China and the United…
Hainan orders local businesses to change their names into something less foreign
The civil affairs office in Hainan has launched (in Chinese) a cleanup campaign to purge local business names deemed “improper” by the local…
China’s firefighting agency slams a random internet user for criticizing its job
The national firefighting department under China’s Ministry of Emergency Management has gone off on a Weibo user with only 114 followers who questioned…
Kuora: Misconceptions about the Chinese and dog meat
The southern Chinese city of Yulin in Guangxi Province holds an annual dog meat festival called the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival,…
Decision time for China at World Cup: Play to win, or play to progress?
The China Sports Column is a SupChina weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in…
Friday Song: Vinida takes the lead among China’s underground rappers
There’s something convincing about the way Vinida turns her parasol and raps “I’m the future you long for.” Her song 主角 (zhǔjué) — i.e.,…
From Hong Kong’s mass protest to pot in graves, our top news this week
From a massive protest in Hong Kong that turned violent to Huawei’s “indefinite” plan to delay launching a new computer to cannabis in…
Chinese Corner: Baidu’s bad year, doping for gaokao, and the perfect sex doll
Chinese Corner is Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet. Baidu’s very bad year 首次亏损，百度是怎么把一手好牌打烂的? First loss for…
Hong Kong police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at protestors
Hong Kong police in riot gear fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in skirmishes with protesters surrounding the city’s Legislative Council…
In Beijing, two parks where the old and single look to mingle
In China, more than 43 million seniors are widowed, divorced, or unmarried. In Beijing, you’ll find many of them…
Whispers of ‘Umbrella Movement II’ as protesters gather in Central, Hong Kong
Photo by Anthony Tao Demonstrators were back on the streets in Hong Kong on Tuesday night, with protests continuing into Wednesday morning….
‘Western Pacific’: U.S. messaging in the South China Sea includes recommitment to Taiwan
Washington, D.C., is signaling its commitment to the Western Pacific — a favored umbrella term for any part of the Pacific Ocean that…
ChinaEconTalk: Peter Hessler talks China, Egypt, and the craft of foreign correspondence
In the latest ChinaEconTalk, we have veteran journalist Peter Hessler, who spent seven years in China as a correspondent for The New Yorker,…
Sina Finance publishes remarkably sexist, ageist commentary, angers everyone
An article about Taiwanese supermodel Lín Zhìlíng 林志玲 and her recent marriage to Japanese pop star Akira, which was published online by Sina…
