Ukraine enters the danger zone: China-Russia weekly update
Is China nervous about Russia spoiling the Olympics with a Ukraine invasion? This is the week that was in China-Russia news.
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India-China tensions flare up again over border issues and Tibet
Indian domestic politics erupted in controversy over China last week. The fallout is limiting the government’s room to maneuver to resolve a border crisis.
The Kazakhstan protests and Sino-Russian relations
What do the protests in Kazakhstan mean for China and its relationship to Russia, which has sent troops to the central Asian nation to crush the unrest?
Lithuanian president says Taiwan office naming was ‘a mistake’ after ‘unconventional measures’ from Beijing
After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a “Taiwanese representative office” in its capital, Vilnius, last November, China has escalated its diplomatic and economic pressure on the EU state.
In the China-Laos Railway, Beijing reveals its designs for Southeast Asia
As the first leg of an envisioned Chinese-built network connecting Kunming, Yangon, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, and Singapore, the China-Laos rail moves a Chinese-led Southeast Asian order one step closer to reality.
Taiwan rolls out digital vaccine certificates recognized by 60 countries
Sixty countries, including the U.S. and EU member states, will now accept Taiwan’s official digital vaccine certificate as proof of vaccination or PCR test results.
Russia might invade Ukraine. What will China do?
As the second Ukraine crisis unfolds will Beijing “lean to one side”?
The top ten news stories of 2021, according to Chinese state media
Chinese state media has published various year-end lists this week. Here are some of them, covering everything from satellite photography to — of course — Xi Jinping's favorite slogans.
Intel apologizes as Biden signs Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law
A new law will ban U.S. companies from buying anything at all from Xinjiang unless they can prove it was not made with forced labor. Intel is already dealing with the fallout.
Inside the DOJ’s China Initiative with the MIT Technology Review
The Department of Justice launched the "China Initiative" two years ago to counter perceived "national security threats." This week, Sinica talks to the investigative reporters who published a scathing indictment of the China Initiative in the MIT Technology Review.