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Trump to Press China on North Korea, Trade on Beijing Visit
Reuters
October 23, 2017
China, Pyongyang’s biggest ally says it will enforce U.N. sanctions banning coal, textile and seafood imports and cut off oil shipments to North Korea.
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China’s New Antipollution Push Could Cool Its Growth Engine
By Keith Bradsher via New York Times
October 23, 2017
China’s minister for environmental protection said Monday that even tougher measures will be coming.
Pollution, Economic Growth
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China’s Skewed Sex Ratio Makes President Xi’s Job a Lot Harder
Quartz
October 20, 2017
As odd as it sounds, China’s economic policy is being held hostage by its heavily skewed sex ratio.
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Xi Jinping's Leninist Quest for a Dynasty Inspires Congressional Love-In
Guardian
October 20, 2017
While the explosion of sycophancy over China’s president may seem almost comical, his reign will have ramifications far beyond the country’s borders
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Which Industries Will China Set up in Xiongan, the President's Dream City?
South China Morning Post
October 20, 2017
Appointment of banking regulator to key role would boost confidence that the shrinking reform camp will still be able to influence policy
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Why China’s Xi Jinping is Unlikely to Anoint a Successor
South China Morning Post
October 20, 2017
Hu Chunhua and Chen Miner unlikely to win promotion to Communist Party’s top decision-making body
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Dark Horses, Sure Bets: Who Could Rule China in the Next five Years (and Beyond)
CNN
October 20, 2017
In the world's most populous nation, seven men sit atop 1.4 billion people.
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China’s Party Congress Brings Crackdown on Critics, Nightclubs and Airbnb
New York Times
October 20, 2017
President Xi Jinping is sending a stern message to China and the world: I am in charge, and nothing can stand in my way.
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China Warns US to Drop Its Bias after Tillerson’s ‘Blunt’ Message
By Sarah Zheng via South China Morning Post
October 19, 2017
Beijing warned the United States to drop its bias against China after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington wanted to “dramatically deepen” ties with New Delhi to counter China’s influence in Asia.
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Chinese Property Boom Props up Xi’s Hopes for the Economy
By Tom Hancock via Financial Times
October 19, 2017
Ocean Flower Island is a vision of luxury, Chinese-style. A man-made archipelago off the coast of the tropical island of Hainan in the South China Sea, it will boast thousands of apartments, 28 museums and 58 hotels including one which is “7-star level” and another shaped like a European castle.
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China’s Reform Hopefuls Watch for Names. Only One May Matter.
By Keith Bradsher via New York Times
October 19, 2017
A decade ago, this city in southeastern China had a reputation as one of the country’s grimmest, with smoggy skies, chronic traffic jams and streams so foul that they had to be paved over to contain the stench.
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China’s "Rogue Aid" to Africa Isn't as Much or as Controversial as We Thought
By Lily Kuo via Quartz
October 19, 2017
A decade ago, a New York Times columnist coined the term “rogue aid” to describe China’s financial assistance in the developing world: nontransparent, nondemocratic, and above all self-interested. Since then, the label has stuck.
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Move over, America. China Now Presents Itself as the Model ‘Blazing a New Trail’ for the World.
By Simon Denyer via Washington Post
October 19, 2017
American presidents are fond of describing their nation as a “city on a hill” — a shining example for other nations to follow. But China is now officially in the business of styling itself as another polestar for the world, with a very different political, economic and cultural model.
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Xi Jinping: China's President ‘to Get Own Political Theory’
BBC
October 19, 2017
It will be known as “Xi Jinping Thought” and has 14 principles, the agency says.
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How Xi’s Redefinition of Deng Xiaoping’s Guiding Principle Could Change China’s Policy Course for Decades to Come
By Nectar Gan via South China Morning Post
October 18, 2017
President Xi Jinping on Wednesday redefined the “principal contradiction” faced by Chinese people, signalling a shift in the country’s development focus for the years, if not decades, ahead from unbridled economic growth to better quality expansion and improved wealth distribution.
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China Is Quietly Reshaping the World
By Anja Manuel via Atlantic
October 18, 2017
The Pakistani town of Gwadar was until recently filled with the dust-colored cinderblock houses of about 50,000 fishermen. Ringed by cliffs, desert, and the Arabian Sea, it was at the forgotten edge of the earth. Now it’s one centerpiece of China’s “Belt and Road” initiative, and the town has transformed as a result. Gwadar is experiencing a storm of construction: a brand-new container port, new hotels, and 1,800 miles of superhighway and high-speed railway to connect it to China’s landlocked western provinces. China and Pakistan aspire to turn Gwadar into a new Dubai, making it a city that will ultimately house 2 million people.
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China Vows to Scrap Secret Interrogations of Communist Party Members
Reuters
October 18, 2017
China’s ruling Communist Party will scrap the practice of secretive interrogations known as “shuanggui”, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, part of broader reforms of its anti-corruption architecture.
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The Human Cost of China’s Economic Reforms
By Robin Brant via BBC
October 18, 2017
Mr Yu is worried that millions of workers the Chinese government plans to lay off from failing state owned companies will be “abandoned” like he says he was 15 years ago.
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China’s Challenges Abroad: How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?
By Scott Snyder via Forbes
October 18, 2017
The importance of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th party congress to the future of Xi Jinping’s leadership and the direction of China has paralyzed policy debates on many issues, including North Korea. The paralysis has persisted despite the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to wheedle greater Chinese cooperation to rein in North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs before they can strike the U.S. mainland.
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Xi Jinping Opens China's Party Congress, His Hold Tighter Than Ever
By Chris Buckley via New York Times
October 18, 2017
When Xi Jinping strode out in the Great Hall of the People five years ago as China’s new leader, his tight smile barely hid the atmosphere of smoldering crisis.
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A Dazzling Spectacle of China's Totalitarianism
By Stein Ringen via Washington Post
October 17, 2017
When the Congress of the Chinese Communist Party convenes in Beijing on Wednesday, the world will be served up a dazzling spectacle of power and procedure.
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Delegates to Party Congress Highly Representative: Report
By Xinhua via Xinhua
October 17, 2017
The presidium of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its first meeting on Tuesday afternoon, approving a report on the examination of delegates’ qualifications by the delegate credentials committee.
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How China's Financial Cracks Could Spread
By Aaron Back via Wall Street Journal
October 17, 2017
Can financial turmoil in China play havoc with the rest of the world? It has already happened.
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Exile Guo Wengui Casts Shadow over China's Party Congress
By Lucy Hornby via Financial Times
October 17, 2017
If anyone thought that what happens in the Chinese Communist party stays in the Chinese Communist party, a determined gadfly ensconced in New York has proven them wrong.
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Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Will Crash to Earth within Months
By Michael Slezak via Guardian
October 17, 2017
The Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace” lab was launched in 2011 and described as a “potent political symbol” of China, part of an ambitious scientific push to turn China into a space superpower.
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The Communist App Store: China's Endless Apps for Tracking, Organizing, and Motivating Party Members
By Echo Huang via Quartz
October 17, 2017
China’s Communist Party is getting into app development big time, with dozens of apps to educate and promote social networking among party members hitting the country’s Apple and Android app stores.
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Chinese Museum Pulls Exhibit Comparing Animals to Black People
By Russell Goldman and Adam Wu via New York Times
October 16, 2017
A section of the “This Is Africa” exhibit at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan included side-by-side photographs of animals and people displaying similar expressions. One pair included a young boy and a howling chimpanzee, each photographed with their mouths agape.
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Guo Wengui, the Maverick Chinese Billionaire Who Threatens to Crash Xi’s Party
By Tom Phillips via Guardian
October 16, 2017
He paints himself as the Che Guevara of Chinese crony capitalism, a billionaire insurgent vowing to bring down the system from the comfort of his $68m New York home.
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Is Xi a Threat to Foreign Businesses in China?
By Peter Martin and Keith Zhai via Bloomberg
October 16, 2017
In a speech at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Xi Jinping said choosing protectionism was akin to “locking yourself in a dark room.” But his rhetoric doesn’t square with reality, multinationals say.
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China Stands at ‘a New Historic Starting Point,’ Communist Party Says
By Huileng Tan via CNBC
October 16, 2017
China is boasting of its growing economic and political development as the country comes to a standstill for the once-every-five-years Communist Party Congress.
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“We Could All Be Potential Refugees”: Ai Weiwei on the Epic Journey Of “Human Flow”
By Gary M. Kramer via Salon
October 16, 2017
Ai shot 900 hours of footage and conducted 600 interviews over the course of a year, and edited the film over six months.
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China’s Huawei Could Overtake Apple This Year in Smartphones, Top Analyst Says
By Arjun Kharpal via CNBC
October 16, 2017
In the second quarter of this year, Huawei held a 11.3 percent market share, shipping 38.5 million units, IDC data show. Apple meanwhile shipped 41 million iPhones and had a 12 percent market share in the same period.
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In China, Trading Begins on WeChat
By Lianting Tu and Carrie Hong via Bloomberg
October 16, 2017
Regulators elsewhere may be clamping down on the financial industry’s use of private messaging apps, but in the world’s second-largest economy the practice is flourishing.
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China Seeks Dominance of Global AI Industry
By Louise Lucas via Financial Times
October 16, 2017
While the National Science Foundation in the US has no increase in funding this year, China has promised to “vigorously use governmental and social capital” to dominate the industry.
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China's Pollution Crackdown Is Gaining Momentum
By Bloomberg News via Bloomberg
October 16, 2017
That political will overlaps with an economic need to rein in surplus production of steel, aluminum and other basic materials after years of over-investment. How and when that capacity gets replaced will be a key factor in the economy’s performance beyond 2017.
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China September Exports up 8.1%, Imports up 18.7% as Trade with North Korea Slides
CNBC
October 13, 2017
China reported strong trade data on Friday just days ahead of a major Communist Party Congress.
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Xi Jinping Has More Clout Than Donald Trump. The World Should Be Wary
Economist
October 12, 2017
American presidents have a habit of describing their Chinese counterparts in terms of awe. A fawning Richard Nixon said to Mao Zedong that the chairman’s writings had “changed the world”. To Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping was a string of flattering adjectives: “smart, tough, intelligent, frank, courageous, personable, self-assured, friendly”.
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China Rebuffs Criticism of Decision to Bar British Activist from Hong Kong
By Benjamin Haas and Tom Phillips via Guardian
October 12, 2017
China has rebuffed criticism of its decision to bar a prominent British activist from Hong Kong, declaring itself unshakably opposed to foreign interference in the former colony’s affairs.
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China Offers Support to Spanish Government amid Catalonia Crisis
South China Morning Post
October 12, 2017
China understands and supports the Spanish government’s efforts to protect the country’s unity and territorial integrity, Beijing said on Thursday, amid moves by Catalonia to declare independence.
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China Targets Pollution on Eve of Xi Jinping’s Second Term
By Tom Hancock and Lucy Hornby via Financial Times
October 12, 2017
A wave of environmental inspections in China has led to the closure of tens of thousands of businesses producing commodities from industrial chemicals to cement and rubber, pushing up prices and disrupting some global supply chains.
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China Threatens U.S. Congress for Crossing Its ‘Red Line’ on Taiwan
By Josh Rogin via Washington Post
October 12, 2017
In a rare pressure campaign, the Chinese government is demanding that the U.S. Congress back off passing new laws that would strengthen the U.S. relationship with Taiwan. Beijing’s efforts are the latest sign that it is stepping up its campaign to exert political influence inside countries around the world, including the United States.
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China’s Tightening Grip on Tech Giants: DealBook Briefing
By Amie Tsang and Michael J. de la Merced via New York Times
October 12, 2017
If the Chinese government goes through with a plan to gain board seats at some of its country’s top technology players, will that cause problems when those companies go hunting for deals overseas?
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The Communist Party Ghostwriters Who Wrote the Book on Xi Jinping
By Jun Mai via South China Morning Post
October 11, 2017
The call came in 2015. He Yiting, a vice-chairman of the training ground for top Communist Party cadres, was given a mission that would take the next two years of his life.
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China's Xi Looks Set to Keep Right-Hand Man on Despite Age
By Benjamin Kang Lim, Ben Blanchard, and Philip Wen via Reuters
October 11, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to retain his right-hand man, the graft-buster Wang Qishan, in a senior position at a key Communist Party Congress this month even though he has reached retirement age, according to a majority of people with ties to the leadership interviewed by Reuters.
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China Treats Its Foreign Aid Like a State Secret. New Research Aims to Reveal It.
By Adam Taylor via Washington Post
October 11, 2017
Since the turn of the century, China has become an unavoidable global provider of foreign assistance, funding everything from opera houses in Algeria to tobacco farms in Zimbabwe.
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China to Debtors: Pay up or Be Shamed
By Keith Bradsher and Ailin Tang via New York Times
October 11, 2017
Troubled by huge debts run up by big state companies and politically connected local governments, China is taking steps instead to go after the little guys.
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China Grabbed American as Spy Wars Flare
By Ali Watkins via Politico
October 11, 2017
The sun was setting over Chengdu when they grabbed the American. It was January 2016. The U.S. official had been working out of the American consulate in the central Chinese metropolis of more than 10 million. He may not have seen the plainclothes Chinese security services coming before they jumped him. In seconds he was grabbed off the Chengdu street and thrown into a waiting van.
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China Names New Leaders of Anti-Corruption Agencies at Financial Regulators
South China Morning Post
October 11, 2017
China’s Communist Party has named new top officials to lead anti-corruption agencies at the country’s banking and insurance regulators as it makes final preparations for a twice-a-decade party congress later this month.
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Asia's Longest-Serving Strongman Shows Power of China's Cash
By Blake Schmidt via Bloomberg
October 10, 2017
A few decades ago, the U.S. and its allies could use financial leverage over aid-dependent Cambodia to nurture a democracy forged after Pol Pot’s genocide wiped out about a fifth of the population. But these days the biggest spender is China, which has focused more on securing Cambodia’s backing in regional affairs than its embrace of free and fair elections.
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China Hastens the World toward an Electric-Car Future
By Keith Bradsher via New York Times
October 10, 2017
There is a powerful reason that automakers worldwide are speeding up their efforts to develop electric vehicles — and that reason is China.
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While U.S. Moves toward Coal, China Bets Big on Solar
By Ben Tracy via CBS News
October 10, 2017
In southern China, the country flipped the switch on the world's largest floating solar installation - built on top of a lake created by an abandoned coal mine. Projects like these helped China double its solar capacity last year. It is now twice as big as the U.S. capacity.
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Diplomat's China Speech Renews Australia University Debate
By BBC via BBC
October 10, 2017
Australia's education minister has urged universities to maintain academic integrity after a diplomat renewed a discussion about possible Chinese influence on campuses.
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China May Consider These Countries for Its Overseas Military Base
By Ralph Jennings via Forbes
October 10, 2017
China is most likely to put more military bases on the African east coast, as well as along the Indian Ocean or Arabian Sea.
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In China, Scholars Are Being Punished amid Growing Squeeze on Public Expression
By Anthony Kuhn via NPR
October 10, 2017
In late July, Beijing Normal University authorities fired Shi Jiepeng, an assistant professor, citing a number of offenses, including "expressing views outside the mainstream of society."
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Chinese Village Where Xi Jinping Fled Is Now a Monument to His Power
By Chris Buckley via New York Times
October 9, 2017
Almost 50 years after Xi Jinping first trudged into this village as a cold, bewildered teenager, hundreds of political pilgrims retrace his footsteps every day. They follow a well-trod course designed to show how the seven years that the young Mr. Xi spent in this hardscrabble village in China’s barren northwest forged the strongman style that he now uses to rule the world’s most populous nation.
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‘Blade Runner 2049’ Secures China Release Date (Exclusive)
By Patrick Brzeski via Hollywood Reporter
October 9, 2017
A disappointing North American debut has placed added pressure on the major Asian territories where the film has yet to open, led by the massive China market.
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China Congress: Military Facelift a Sign of Bigger Changes
By Cheng Li via BBC
October 9, 2017
Of the many noteworthy developments that have characterised Chinese President Xi Jinping's first five-year term, none stands out as much as military reform, and this reveals a great deal about the coming political trajectory in China, writes political analyst Cheng Li.
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Breakingviews - China's Oil Giants Brace for Electric Car Crash
By Katrina Hamlin via Reuters
October 9, 2017
China’s push into new energy vehicles (NEVs) – including battery-powered and hybrid cars – could curb demand for black gold. Sinopec and PetroChina will be hardest hit. The policy will also add to downward pressure on global crude prices.
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Philippines Apologizes to China over Wrong Taiwan Logo
By Jim Gomez via Bloomberg
October 9, 2017
The Philippine defense department has apologized to China for the "grievous but purely unintentional mistake" of using Taiwan's defense ministry logo during a ceremony where the Chinese ambassador turned over thousands of assault rifles to the Filipino defense chief and top military commanders.
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Accelerating Fintech in China
By Joshua Bateman via TechCrunch
October 9, 2017
China’s expeditious adoption of fintech is generating profits not only for startups, but also the companies investing in them. Sitting in the headquarters of FinPlus, a fintech venture capital firm and accelerator, its CEO, Mosso Lau, said, “There are very many opportunities.”
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This Year's Oscar Contenders from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Are the Perfect Lens into the Places They're From
By Josh Horwitz via Quartz
October 9, 2017
The Oscar nominations coming from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China have not attracted much buzz internationally, but each region’s submission touches on issues in that capture the ambitions, desires, and insecurities of its people. Taken as a trio, they provide the perfect glimpse into three culturally distinct, but closely intertwined, places.
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Does Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Plan to Hang on to Power for More Than 10 Years?
By Choi Chi-yuk Viola Zhou via South China Morning Post
October 6, 2017
The leader of China’s Communist Party, Xi Jinping, will begin a second five-year term this month. Many observers say it’s unlikely to be his last.
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Exclusive: Russia’s Rosneft Aims for Big Boost in Oil Exports to China - Sources
By Vladimir Soldatkin, Gleb Gorodyankin via Reuters
October 6, 2017
Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) wants to boost its supplies of oil to China through Kazakhstan to as much as 18 million tonnes (36,000 bpd) per year from around 10 million tonnes in 2017, three industry sources said on Friday.
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From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path
By Holland Cotter via New York Times
October 6, 2017
Strange to say, although China has 1.4 billion people, it has only one artist, Ai Weiwei. Or so you’d think if you followed the Western news media. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum wants to correct that impression. With work by some 70 Chinese-born artists and collectives filling most of the museum, it’s the largest American survey of its kind since Asia Society’s “Inside Out: New Chinese Art” in 1998.
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Waiting Game for North Korean Workers in China as Shutdown Deadline Looms
By Stuart Lau Choi Chi-yuk via South China Morning Post
October 6, 2017
On a quiet street in the embassy district of Beijing, a neon-lit national flag forms an impressive backdrop to an almost empty North Korean restaurant as young waitresses sent from Pyongyang stand around waiting for customers.
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It's Not Just Amazon: Chinese Tech Giants Are Selling Groceries Too
By Sherisse Pham via CNN
October 6, 2017
Amazon (AMZN, Tech30)'s move to swallow Whole Foods for $13.7 billion grabbed attention in the U.S., and the internet giant has also been dabbling in cashier-less grocery stores. But experts say China is already ahead of the curve.
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