Wuhan goes into lockdown as coronavirus infections double
Map of reported 2019-nCoV infections in China, according to DXY.cn. Since our report for Access members 24 hours ago, the number…
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GDP targets cut down in most provinces
Reuters reports that many Chinese provinces are cutting their GDP targets for 2020 to align with national targets, which are…
Continue readingChina to drastically reduce single-use plastics
Reuters reports some good news on the environmental front in China: Single-use plastics, which the United Nations identified as “one…
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China’s birth rate falls three years in a row
Photo credit: China’s population 1949–2019, and future trends, from Tsinghua Hengda Research Institute. The number of babies born in China…
Continue readingIs the government hiding Wuhan virus numbers?
There have been a number of worrying reports recently about the outbreak of a new type of coronavirus that started in…
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The phase one U.S.-China trade deal signing show
Photo credit: The top image of the Xinhua report (English, Chinese) on the signing of the U.S.-China phase one trade…
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Is Trump about to get a Chinese lesson?
Photo credit: SupChina illustration by Derek Zheng. As we wrote yesterday, the U.S. and China appear to be about to…
Continue readingU.S.-China trade deal that satisfies no one to be signed Wednesday
“We must bear in mind that the trade war is not over yet — the U.S. hasn’t revoked all its…
Continue readingIs China losing the Czech Republic?
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, made waves and garnered media attention a few months ago when the city’s mayor, Zdenek…
Continue reading‘Impossible’ to organize independent film festival in today’s China
The South China Morning Post reports that the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF), held annually since 2003, has been shut down…
Continue readingTechnical issues at China’s top aircraft manufacturer
One would think that the multiple catastrophic failures — both technical and with PR — at the American airplane manufacturer Boeing would…
Continue readingThe mental health crisis in Hong Kong
One of the lasting impacts of the current Hong Kong protests is likely to be a more civically engaged city,…
Continue readingOne measure of Islamophobia in China
A new study by Yue Hou, Chuyu Liu, and Charles Crabtree, forthcoming in the Journal of Comparative Economics, has come to…
Continue readingDid the district council elections calm Hong Kong?
Sebastian Veg, a scholar who splits his time between the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris…
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U.S. Congress report urges sanctions for China’s ‘crimes against humanity’
Photo credit: Uyghurs hold up pictures of friends and relatives who have disappeared in Xinjiang, at the annual report launch…
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