Friday song: Vava, queen of Chinese hip-hop, demands ‘look at me’ on Crazy Rich Asians soundtrack
From its first line, you know exactly what Vava’s hit song, “My New Swag” (我的新衣 wǒ de xīn yī),…
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Trade war, day 77: September 24 escalation forebodes a long and bloody conflict
We’ve been calling it a trade war for a while. “Day 1,” by our counting, was marked by the…
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Trade war, day 76: Who will win as the Chinese and American economies ‘divorce’?
In less than five days, the scope of the U.S.-China trade war is set to more…
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Trade war, day 75: Trump’s $200 billion to be met with $60 billion retaliation from China
As we noted in our Access newsletter yesterday (paywall), President Trump issued a statement late on Monday…
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Trade war, day 70: ‘No pressure to make a deal with China’
Yesterday, news broke that the U.S., led by Steven Mnuchin at the Treasury Department, was reaching out…
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Increasing Uyghur activism abroad against abuses in Xinjiang
The South China Morning Post says: “Emboldened by international scrutiny, the American Uyghur diaspora is increasingly willing…
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Trade war, day 69: More talks proposed, but no signs of structural change
The U.S. Treasury Department, led by Steven Mnuchin, is again attempting to find a deal on trade with China. …
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Trade war, day 68: ‘The risk of China and the US sliding into a new cold war is increasing’
The Financial Times has the latest must-read article (paywall) to understand the trade war, the key point of…
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Beijing dismisses reports of enormous abuses in Xinjiang
As we noted in our Access newsletter yesterday (paywall), several events coincided over the weekend and on Monday…
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Trade war, day 63: Chaos in D.C. deepens trenches even further
The public comment period for a $200 billion package of new tariffs on Chinese good is due to end…
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Trade war, day 62: Both sides dig in for long conflict
President Donald Trump is expected to soon move forward with slapping tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese goods…
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China-Africa forum kicks off in Beijing
The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has been held every three years since 2006, alternating between Beijing and various…
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Trade war, day 61: Japan and Southeast Asia win; $200 billion more Trump tariffs coming
This Thursday, September 6, the U.S. Trade Representative will wrap up its public comment period for what would be…
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Trade war, day 56: Trump ties North Korea to trade, again
At this point, U.S.-China trade relations seem locked in to a tense state for months to come,…
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Will the U.S. sanction China over its Muslim ‘re-education’ camps?
Over the past year, a vast system of extralegal internment camps for Muslims in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang…
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