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Social credit system: Dystopian nightmare or mundane regulatory law?
Scholar of Chinese law Jeremy Daum has been on a one-man mission to demystify China’s social credit system. His rage at inaccurate reporting on the…
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The island shared by Russia and China, and other links
“Located near the city of Khabarovsk, at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers, Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island has long held strategic importance for Russia,”…
Trade war, day 125: Pessimism surrounding U.S. elections, Singapore summit steals Shanghai trade fair’s thunder
Any hopes in Beijing that Democratic Party gains in the U.S. midterm elections would have some beneficial effect for China on trade issues are looking…
Trade war, day 124: Xi’s ‘firefighter’ at work
At the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore on Tuesday, Chinese Vice President Wáng Qíshān 王岐山 restated Beijing’s desire for trade talks with the U.S…
Mass relocations in Xinjiang
Xinhua News Agency reports: About 160,000 farmers and herders in the poverty-stricken areas of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will be relocated to ensure…
Trade war, day 119: Trump has ‘good conversation’ with Xi, then issues another technology theft indictment
At 10:09 a.m. this morning, Donald Trump tweeted: Just had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping of China. We talked about…
A miscellany of links
Sexism in state media: today the People’s Daily tweeted: “Make-up and hair services and food counters with cupcakes and cotton candy… Shanghai to hold a…
Trade war, day 117: U.S. Commerce Department bans technology export to Fujian Jinhua
Yesterday on Access (paywall), we noted how more and more companies with supply chains in China say they are preparing to move production out of…
Xinjiang: A homestay program for forced cultural assimilation
Yesterday, there were two well-documented new reports about the internment camps and other abuses being perpetrated in Xinjiang: Ben Dooley of Agence France-Presse reported on government…
The markets and the advance of the state
It’s worth contrasting state media’s drumbeat of “reform and opening up” with this cartoon from exiled satirist Rebel Pepper, recently published on Radio Free Asia’s…