JD’s Richard Liu faces rape lawsuit
JD.com, China’s number two ecommerce company, made headlines last year in September, when founding CEO Richard Liu…
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Who owns Huawei? Not its employees, says research paper
Huawei’s 2018 Annual Report states that Huawei…
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‘Automated racism’ — facial recognition software targets Uyghurs
In a front-page story in today’s New York Times print edition (link to newspaper front;
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Chinese employers might not favor U.S. university graduates
Inside Higher Ed reports that companies in…
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Hype and reality in Chinese artificial intelligence
In MIT Technology Review, Jeff Ding shares five takeaways from his experience writing about and translating Chinese-language…
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Chinese trespasser at Mar-a-Lago was going to Cindy Yang event
A few weeks ago, it was revealed that a Chinese businesswoman named Cindy Yang (Yáng Lì 杨莅), who…
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The day in Sino-American hostilities
Exactly 265 days ago, the Trump administration imposed large-scale tariffs on China,…
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1.5 million Muslims are in China’s camps — scholar
Adrian Zenz is a researcher at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany. Last year, he…
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Is Google still developing a censored search engine for China?
One of the biggest stories about technology and China last year was the revelation…
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An underwhelming trade deal forms
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal
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Trade war update: Lighthizer testifies, ‘much still needs to be done’
Since a January 31 tweet from Donald Trump that emphasized, “No final deal will be made until my…
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U.K. and Germany not aligned with U.S. on Huawei ban
Since 2012 the U.S. has effectively shut Huawei out of the American market. More recently, the Trump…
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Huawei and Pacific Reset update
The top three stories today from the U.S.-China trade war, or tech cold war, or what we…
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Swedish ambassador to China under investigation after bizarre incident recounted by Angela Gui
Swedish citizen and seller of books that Chinese leader Xi Jinping doesn’t like, Guì Mǐnhǎi 桂敏海, was…
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‘Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’ highlights China’s #MeToo movement, online censorship, and Uyghur repression
In the first episode of its second season, Netflix’s current events and culture satire show Patriot Act with Hasan…
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