1) It’s awesome to be a Chinese officialOfficials can enjoy many perks, big and small, get all their whims pampered and live a privileged lifestyle that even money can’t buy.A […]
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Back to news homeChina’s Economy Is Slowing, a Worrying Sign for the World
BEIJING — Construction and property sales have slumped. Small businesses have shut because of rising costs and weak sales. Debt-laden local governments are cutting the pay of civil servants.China’s economy […]
China Evergrande Gets Soft Treatment in Chinese Media
As China Evergrande Group teeters on the edge of collapse, videos of protesting home buyers have flooded social media. Online government message boards teem with complaints and pleas for intervention […]
Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic Minnow Defies a Rising Superpower
VILNIUS, Lithuania — It was never a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cellphones. But it came as a shock to officials […]
Evergrande’s Struggles Offer a Glimpse of China’s New Financial Future
HONG KONG — Xu Jiayin was China’s richest man, a symbol of the country’s economic rise who helped transform poverty-stricken villages into urbanized metropolises for the fledgling middle class. As […]
How China Plans to Avert an Evergrande Financial Crisis
“The government can place them under watch and pressure them through their employers or relatives not to make trouble,” said Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College […]
New Limits Give Chinese E-Gamers Whiplash
Many in China’s gaming industry agree that games have some downsides. The most popular games in the country are made for smartphones and are free to play, meaning the businesses […]
Memoir Details How China Keeps Business in Line
To build a logistics hub next to Beijing’s main airport, Desmond Shum spent three years collecting 150 official seals from the many-layered Chinese bureaucracy.To get these seals of approval, he […]
China #MeToo Figure Vows to Appeal After Losing Landmark Case
A former television intern who became a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment has vowed to fight on after a court in Beijing ruled that […]
How Afghanistan Changed China’s Taiwan Calculus
The U.S. policy toward Taiwan is “strategic ambiguity” — there is no explicit promise to defend it from Chinese attack. In this tense environment, U.S. policymakers and experts are feverishly […]