Chinese professor at a Japanese university goes missing on a trip home, sparking worries about detention. Two other Japan-based Chinese scholars disappeared while visiting home in 2013 and 2019. They turned out to have been detained for alleged spying
japan.thenewslens.com/article/5889

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Xi Jinping has urged bankers to develop a new financial culture with “Chinese characteristics”. This week on our “Drum Tower” podcast, Alice Su 蘇奕安 and David Rennie 任大伟 analyse this shift and ask: where does this idea come from? econ.st/3IAKwOE 🎧

Highly recommend David Rennie 任大伟 & Alice Su 蘇奕安's latest
episode of Drum Tower. On the falling out between Xi Jinping and the stock market.
economist.com/audio/podcasts…

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How does China control 1.4bn people with a surprisingly small police force? On “Drum Tower”, Alice Su 蘇奕安 and David Rennie 任大伟 reveal the secret of the country’s surveillance state econ.st/49FlQQX 🎧

Nostalgia for China’s boom years is common today, as the economy continues to slow. On “Drum Tower” Alice Su 蘇奕安 and David Rennie 任大伟 watch a film that shows a darker side of this period. Listen to the podcast econ.st/3Icwd2N 🎧

“Lost in Beijing” captures the essence of booming late-2000s China. On “Drum Tower” Alice Su 蘇奕安 and David Rennie 任大伟 discuss what the film reveals about the dynamics of money, gender and power econ.st/3wyFWxF 🎧

Will China be able to harness the power of generative AI? On our “Drum Tower” podcast Alice Su 蘇奕安 and Don Weinland discuss Ernie Bot, its answer to ChatGPT econ.st/48pWyF2 🎧

1/A few days ago, files from a contractor for Chinese police quietly dumped online went viral. But though analysts thought the files authentic, they weren't 100% confident.

Now, after a visit to the company's offices, I can confirm the leak is real:
apnews.com/article/china-…

New regulations on religion in Xinjiang is the latest attempt to suppress Uyghurs. The revisions aim to forcibly transform religious practice to be consistent with Chinese Communist Party ideology—to do otherwise risks imprisonment. See latest by Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/01/3…

Absolute must-read by ⁦Don Weinland⁩ about approx 110m affluent (not super-rich) Chinese who’ve been huge beneficiaries of decades of growth, endlessly rising house prices etc but who are now on the wrong side of Xi Jinping’s remaking of the economy economist.com/briefing/2024/…

This year investors in Chinese stocks have been on a hair-raising ride. Far from embracing the need for broad change, Xi Jinping is making things worse econ.st/4bvWYMN

War between Taiwan and China is a real possibility. What do Chinese people think about that? David Rennie 任大伟 and Alice Su 蘇奕安 find out, on our “Drum Tower” podcast econ.st/3HRqWNW 👇

Breaking: Australian father and pro-democracy writer Yang Hengjun sentenced to death with a two year reprieve by a Chinese court smh.com.au/world/asia/yan…

Some 67m Chinese children have been left in the countryside while their parents work as migrants away from home. On “Drum Tower”, David Rennie 任大伟 and Alice Su 蘇奕安 examine a new policy that could stop that from happening econ.st/3SnLYsk 👇

Our latest investigation: how Taiwanese manufacturers are exploiting the sanction loopholes, keeping Russia supplied with machine tools crucial for military industry. Some of the machine tools were even acquired by nuclear research institutes and missile developers in Russia. 🧵

On the one hand, the Chinese authorities seem to support Palestinian struggles; at the same time, however, Chinese investment in Israeli infrastructure projects and colonial policing means that they cannot be too vocal, write Darren Byler and Karissa Ketter. madeinchinajournal.com/2024/01/25/on-…