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07.02.15Local Filmmakers Must Raise Their Game to Compete With Hollywood
Hollywood Reporter
Chen Kaige says that while the movie industry booms in China, local filmmakers need to raise their standards to compete with Hollywood.
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07.02.15Foreign Films Rise Again at China’s Box Office
Wall Street Journal
China’s movie market is booming, with $3.3 billion worth of ticket sales in the first half of the year, up nearly 50% from the same period in 2014.
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07.01.15China Parliament Ratifies BRICS Bank Agreement
Reuters
The BRICS Bank, is one of two international development banks that China is promoting as an alternative to western institutions such as the World Bank.
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07.01.15Taiwan Youth to China: Treat Us Like a Country
Reuters
Activists tie themselves up in chains, block mountain roads, scale fences and throw red paint balloons in a wave of anti-China sentiment to turn politics in the next election.
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07.01.15China's Military Must Help Xinjiang Modernize
Guardian
China’ wants to bring “modern civilisation” to the southern areas of Xinjiang, where Muslim ethnic Uighurs are in a majority, and help develop its economy
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07.01.15China Invites Kim Jong Un to Beijing in September
Wall Street Journal
China has invited Kim Jong Un to attend events in Beijing in September to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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07.01.15Why it is Better to Stay Out of China A-shares
Financial Times
Where did the argument for China A-shares go? In the last two weeks the case for the booming stock market of mainland China has turned at least two somersaults.
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07.01.15China Parliament Ratifies BRICS Bank Agreement
Reuters
China ratifies an agreement with the world's largest emerging nations to create a new development bank, alternative to western institutions such as the World Bank.
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07.01.15Beijing Works to Calm Tumbling Stock Market
Financial Times
Beijing will do whatever it takes to avert a collapse in the stock market; authorities have already taken steps to boost sentiment and liquidity, including an interest rate cut.
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07.01.15The Chinese Ride-Hailing Startup That’s Out-Ubering Uber
Wired
Didi Kuaidi is taking on Uber for the title of largest ride-hailing company in the world’s largest country--or, Uber appears to be trying to unseat the homegrown favorite.
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07.01.15Airbus Wins $18 Billion China Deal, Plans Jet-Completion Site
Bloomberg
Airbus Group SE wins an order from China for 75 A330 jets worth $18 billion as it finalizes an agreement to open a facility for fitting out and painting the plane.
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07.01.15Chinese Stocks Fall Into a Bear Market
New York Times
China’s central bank cuts interest rates and fails to stem the route in Chinese share prices; the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets closes with steep losses.
Caixin Media
06.30.15
Tesla’s Ambitious Quest for Traction in China
Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk was mobbed like a pop star last year while introducing Chinese consumers to his U.S. company’s Model S electric car.Amid the frenzy, the American billionaire-entrepreneur ambitiously predicted China would...
Media
06.26.15
‘Why Do Chinese Lack Creativity?’
On June 19, the University of Washington and elite Tsinghua University in Beijing announced a new, richly funded cooperative program to be based in Seattle and focused on a topic that has become a sore point in China: innovation. Republican...
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06.26.15Techies Are Trying to Get Chinese Consumers to Rack Up Debt
Wired
In recent years, as the growth of the Chinese economy has slowed—thanks to declining demand for exports and new real estate projects—the government has been desperate to get its thrifty citizens to spend, spend, spend and drive economic growth from...
The China Africa Project
06.25.15
South Africa Tourism in Crisis as Chinese Reject New Visa Regulations
South Africa’s tourism sector is in crisis as a series of new visa regulations have prompted dramatic falls in arrivals, particularly from the world’s largest source of tourists: China. The number of Chinese visitors to South Africa has plunged a...
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06.25.15China's Alibaba to Remove Listings with Confederate Flag Imagery
Reuters
Alibaba pledged to pull down links to products with Confederate flag imagery in the wake of the shooting in South Carolina.
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06.25.15China Reveals Misuse of $2.7 Billion in Lottery Funds
Reuters
China uncovered the misappropriation of $2.72 billion from its state lottery program, used to buy and build office buildings and hotels.
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06.25.15China Invests in the World
Diplomat
China’s outward foreign direct investment for the first five months of 2015 is up 50 percent from the same period in 2014, says Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
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06.25.15China to Boost Textile Industry in Xinjiang
Shanghai Daily
China's cabinet issued a guideline on Thursday to bolster the textile and garment industry in the western Xinjiang region in the hope of increasing local employment and exports.
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06.25.15South Africa Tourism in Crisis as Chinese Reject New Visa Regulations
The number of Chinese visitors to South Africa has dropped 32 percent after new visa regulations make travel difficult.
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06.24.15China's Alibaba Pictures Investing in Paramount's 'Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation'
Hollywood Reporter
Alibaba Pictures says 'Mission: Impossible 5' will be its first Hollywood investment.
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06.23.15Alibaba is Selling US E-Commerce Site 11 Main Just a Year After it Opened
Quartz
Alibaba’s been more tentative in the U.S. than it has in China, because it is a latecomer in a mature market.
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06.22.15China Voice: Cooperation Prevails Over Confrontation in China-U.S. Ties
Xinhua
The dialogues will help pave the way for President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. in September.
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06.22.15The Village and the Girl
BBC
The destruction of rural China became for pig farmer Xiao Zhang a liberation and an opportunity.
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06.20.15Hunt for Deep Panda Intensifies in Trenches of U.S.-China Cyberwar
Reuters
Deep Panda is one of several hacking groups that cybersecurity companies accuse of hacking U.S. networks.
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06.20.15Attack Gave Chinese Hackers Privileged Access to U.S. Systems
New York Times
Chinese intruders' attack gave them “administrator privileges” into Office of Personnel Management computer networks.
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06.19.15State Department Stays Quiet About Exit from Chinese-Owned Waldorf Astoria
Guardian
UN general assembly will be held at different hotel for first time in decades.
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06.19.15Chinese Stocks Drop 10% From Peak
Bloomberg
China’s benchmark stock index tumbled from this year’s peak amid growing concern that the country’s longest-ever bull market has propelled valuations to unsustainable levels.
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06.18.15CAA China’s Leader on Censorship, Why China Needs a Global Hit and Translating for Spielberg
Hollywood Reporter
The first U.S. talent agency with full-time representation in China marks 10 years in Beijing.
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06.18.15Hong Kong Vetoes China-Backed Electoral Reform Proposal
Reuters
The rejection was expected and will likely appease activists who demanded a veto of what they call "fake" reforms.
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06.16.15‘Jurassic World’ Speaks A Universal Language
NPR
Jurassic World was No. 1 last week in China, where only about 30 Hollywood movies may screen officially each year.
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06.15.15Nicaragua Canal Protest: Thousands Oppose Atlantic-Pacific
BBC
Some protesters, who were mostly farmers, accused President Daniel Ortega of selling Nicaragua to the Chinese.
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06.15.15China’s Unsettling Stock Market Boom
New York Times
After a peak in October 2007, prices fell about 70 percent over 12 months. This time, the risks are bigger and broader.
Sinica Podcast
06.15.15
The People’s Republic of Cruiseland
from Sinica Podcast
We have enough favorite writers on China that we’ve had to develop a sophisticated classification system just to keep track of everyone. That said, one of our hardest to place within the long-form taxonomy is Chris Beam, who you may have heard on...
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06.12.15Investors Flee China Funds in Historic Rush
CNN
Chinese funds just experienced the biggest exodus of money ever.
Conversation
06.11.15
How Will Beijing Treat Myanmar’s Symbol of Democracy?
Burmese opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent 15 years under house arrest in Myanmar, is visiting the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing for five days this week, through Sunday. Also courted by...
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06.10.15China’s Troubling Robot Revolution
New York Times
China may face a staggering challenge as it attempts to adapt to the realities of a new age.
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06.09.15China Blacklists 38 Cartoons, Violence, Porn Cited
Hollywood Reporter
Among the banned are a 2014 animated TV series set in a Tokyo after a terrorist attack has destroyed the city.
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06.09.15Tencent Customers Come for the Music, Stay for the Perks
Wall Street Journal
Internet giant tries to pull off something few have achieved in China: get people to pay for digital music.
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06.09.15The $6.5 Trillion China Rally That’s Making Stock-Market History
Bloomberg
The sum is the value created in just 12 months of trading on Chinese stock exchanges, a rally some say has gone too far.
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06.09.15Uber Spends Heavily to Establish Itself in China
New York Times
Fat with almost $6 billion in venture capital, San Francisco-based Uber is doling out bonuses up to three times its fares.
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06.08.15Americans Buy a Fifth of China’s Exports
Bloomberg
Americans bought almost $1 out of every $5 worth of goods that China exported in May, the highest share since August 2010.
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06.08.15Obama Vows to Boost U.S. Cyber Defenses Amid Signs of China Hacking
Reuters
U.S. officials said the probe into a massive breach of federal government networks has yielded growing signs of a direct Chinese role.
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06.08.15Alibaba’s Jack Ma Visiting U.S. to Lure Businesses Into China
Bloomberg
Ma is looking for revenue beyond China, where the nation’s economy is projected to grow at its slowest pace since 1990.
Conversation
06.06.15
Should the U.S. Change its China Policy and How?
The past several months have seen a growing chorus of calls for the U.S. to take stock of its policy toward China. Some prominent voices have called for greater efforts by the U.S. and China to forge “a substantive sense of common purpose,” while...
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06.05.15China in Focus as Cyber Attack Hits Millions of U.S. Federal Workers
Reuters
Hacks possibly compromised the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees.
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06.05.15Survivor Accounts Raise Questions About Yangtze Ship’s Final Moments
New York Times
Four days after the ship, the Oriental Star, flipped over in a ferocious storm, leaving 442 dead or missing.
The China Africa Project
06.04.15
NO! China is NOT Exporting Convict Labor to Africa!!!!
Fifteen minutes into almost any conversation about the Chinese in Africa, the question about Chinese labor invariably comes up. “The Chinese are exporting convicts to work on construction sites,” according to one of the pervasive myths, or, “Chinese...
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06.03.15Alibaba to Invest in China Business News
Wall Street Journal
E-commerce giant to pay about $200 million for a 30% stake.
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06.02.15Chinese Democracy Isn’t Inevitable
Atlantic
Can a political system be democratically legitimate without being democratic?
Media
06.02.15
Chinese Netizens to Fiorina: You’re Right, We Don’t Innovate
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a declared Republican candidate for U.S. president, evidently has strong opinions about the capacities of Chinese people. “Yeah, the Chinese can take a test,” Fiorina told an Iowa-based video blog...
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06.01.15Chubby Blue Cat Hints at Thaw in Ties Between China and Japan
New York Times
In September, three Sichuan newspapers attacked the animated cat Doraemon as a tool of Japan’s “cultural invasion.”
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06.01.15Made in Chindia: Giants Take Different Manufacturing Paths
Bloomberg
Made in Chindia: Giants take different manufacturing paths http://www.livemint.com/Politics/5dpo7KGpdaYBigaTctF8BJ/Made-in-Chindia-Giants-take-different-manufacturing-paths.html
Reports
06.01.15
Chinese FDI in Europe and Germany
Mercator Institute for China Studies
The authors have—on the basis of a unique transaction dataset—analyzed the newest trends of Chinese direct investment in Germany and the E.U. The study is able to clearly establish that the new wave of Chinese investment offers exceptional...
Media
05.29.15
Is the Shanghai Stock Market Bubble Finally Bursting?
A customer strolls into a bookstore, goes the popular Chinese joke, and tells the salesperson: “I’m looking for a book with no killers, but much bloodshed; with no love, but great regret; with no spies, but constant paranoia. Can you make a...
The China Africa Project
05.27.15
Chinese Racist Views Towards Blacks and Africans
When riots broke out in the U.S. city of Baltimore in May 2015, the reaction across the Chinese social web was sadly predictable as Internet users posted countless anti-black racist comments. However, what was interesting about their posts is how...
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05.27.15Should Authors Shun or Cooperate With Chinese Censors?
New York Times
A PEN American Center report found some books were expurgated by Chinese censors without the authors knowledge.
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05.26.15Sex Trade Goes Underground in China’s ‘Sin City’
CNN
More than 2,000 hotels, saunas and massage parlors were shut down in Dongguan.