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Chinese tea brand LELECHA faced backlash for using the much-respected literary figure Lu Xun to promote their 'Smoky Oolong' milk tea, sparking controversy over the exploitation of his legacy. 🔗whatsonweibo.com/lu-xun-vs-lele…

China's annual migrant worker survey is out, and, as ever, it's a banger. Just a few of the hits:
1. Migrant employment in the construction sector fell by 6.5 million in 2023, the largest annual decline since the survey started in 2008. 1/

Is that for real or has the official website been hacked? That's our version of 'Tell France's story well' / 讲好法国故事？

Some sort of epiphany…

Part of a long list of growing contentious points between the EU and China…
euronews.com/my-europe/2024…

Wind and solar power installed capacity now amounts to 37.3% of the country's total installed power generation capacity!
nea.gov.cn/2024-04/22/c_1…

The dilemma: 1. boost contributions to what is the world’s largest social security system to better support the country’s aging population vs. 2. calls to reduce the financial burden amid a wobbly economy and the slowest wages growth in up to 40 years. caixinglobal.com/2024-04-22/cov…

Back from the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings, where — six weeks after the beginning of the work at the G20 on a coordinated taxation of the super-rich — there was palpable 'tax the rich' energy in the room

A few notable developments 🧵

2023 Hong Kong district council poll = HK$1.2 billion, with a record-low election turnout of 27.59%;
2019 Hong Kong district council poll = HK$635 million, with a record-high election turnout of 71.23%. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

Video: the number of Japanese students studying abroad in the United States peaked in the 1990s at over 46,000 and has since dropped to less than half that number. (data from Open Doors)

Core population health indicators show that societies have not yet fully recovered from the pandemic, with many people still struggling mentally & physically.

Following #WorldHealthDay , discover the latest insights from @OECD_social's Health at a Glance: brnw.ch/21wIBmq

Because of the worsening fiscal situation of local governments, driven by their plummeting land revenues & massive debts, missed payments to private enterprises are on the rise, contributing to China’s slumping business confidence.
piie.com/blogs/realtime…

hk01.com政情/1003653/23條-西方雙重標準-陳文敏-關鍵是有否民主-言論自由監察機制

A summary of the four horsemen of China's macroeconomic slowdown and their impact on the sectors hardest hit in the Chinese economy.

1. Real estate
2. Local government fiscal constraints
3. Insufficient domestic demand
4. Economic bureaucracy

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Yesterday Hong Kong released the latest resident population data for the end of 2023: 7,503,100 (↑0.4% from last year).

Here’s a bit more data:
- Median age: 47 (unchanged)
- Age 65+ population: 1,680,800 (↑86,100)
- Population born 1997 or after: 1,507,600 (↓17,400)

A new publication on anti-China protests w/ Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell 김상훈 金相勳 ,Do Young Gong and
Shuyuan Shen
now out
World Development
Special thanks to Lynette Ong for reading our early draft. Open access sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In light of yet another sweatshop scandal, let us remember that upholding the freedom of association (the right to form & join trade unions) stands as the most effective means of fighting all forms of labour unfreedom–from Mauritius to India or Bangladesh. theconversation.com/debt-wage-thef…

In Depth: For the first time since its launch, Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index has fallen for four years in a row. Turning it around will depend on restoring investor confidence, which is in the hands of policymakers in Hong Kong and Beijing. caixinglobal.com/2024-02-16/in-…

Moins d'un Français sur dix part aux vacances d'hiver credoc.fr/publications/m…