Tencent resumes NBA streaming as gaming companies censor their staff and players
Pictured: Mei, a character from the Blizzard game Overwatch, as depicted by the artist Yuumei, via Pro Guides.
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A tentative, partial, ‘phase one’ trade truce [UPDATE]
The infographic above, tweeted by scholar Ankit Panda, accurately describes some of the events of the week in Washington, D.C. Chinese…
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NBA stands firm as CCTV cuts preseason broadcasts and brands flee
Two days after the NBA groveled to Chinese fans over a tweet by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey that supported Hong…
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Xinjiang sanctions finally come, two days before 13th round of trade talks
The system of mass internment camps for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been documented in a steady…
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NBA grovels for Chinese forgiveness after ‘erroneous comments on Hong Kong’ by Houston Rockets GM
Photo credit: SupChina illustration. Chinese basketball superstar Yáo Míng 姚明 played on the Houston Rockets from 2002 to 2011. Over…
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Will Hong Kong invoke emergency powers?
Local Hong Kong media have indicated that the city government is considering invoking emergency powers not used in over 50…
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World opinion on China becomes more negative
The Pew Research Center has released an update on its Global Attitudes Survey, which tracks opinion of China on a yearly…
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Hong Kong: 18-year-old shot by police in stable condition
Tsang Chi-kin, the 18-year-old student of Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College who was shot in the chest on…
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An enormous parade, party to celebrate 70 years of the P.R.C.
For the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing held a nearly three-hour-long parade. The South China Morning…
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Hong Kong protester shot by police amid citywide chaos
As Beijing held festivities for the 70th anniversary of the P.R.C., Hong Kong protesters held what they called a “day…
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Christian Uyghurs also detained in Xinjiang
The re-education campaign in Xinjiang is ostensibly about stamping out islamic extremism. But Nathan Vanderklippe of the Globe and Mail reports that…
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Meng Wanzhou back to court, and not for the last time
The other side of U.S.-China trade tensions, of course, is technology tensions. That Washington identified this as a core concern…
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‘Drops of one-fifth or more’ in Chinese student enrollment at American universities
The Associated Press reports that U.S.-China political tensions, and increasing visa uncertainties under an American administration hostile to foreigners and Chinese students in…
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The difference between TikTok and Douyin
For the New Yorker, Jia Tolentino describes in gorgeous detail (porous paywall — definitely worth the click) the addictive algorithms of TikTok,…
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Trump attacks China, defends religious freedom, totally ignores Uyghurs
Before he began swatting at the Democratic Party’s impeachment inquiry earlier today, President Donald Trump was at the United Nations General…
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