China’s crackdown on lavish civil servant perks will ‘harm’ the economy, experts warn | China

Adjacent to a municipal government building in Beijing, a normally bustling restaurant is now eerily quiet, at lunchtime most of its seats are empty. The recent crackdown on civil servants frequenting restaurants... Read more »

NGOs urge Nandy to halt sale of Telegraph over China links | Telegraph Media Group

A group of nine human rights and freedom of expression organisations have called on the culture secretary to halt RedBird Capital’s proposed £500m takeover of the Telegraph and investigate the US private... Read more »

China Trend Watch: Deadly Nanchang Stabbing, Animation Hit ‘Nobody’ & Diplomatic Rift over Dalai Lama

1. Chinese Fruit Retailer Pagoda Faces Backlash Over CEO’s Tone-Deaf Remarks on High Fruit Prices [#百果园称不会迎合消费者#] [#百果园#] The Chinese fresh fruit retail chain Pagoda (百果园) is in hot water after its chairman... Read more »

Chinese warship crashes into own coastguard vessel while chasing Philippine boat in South China Sea | South China Sea

The Philippines has released dramatic footage of a Chinese warship colliding with a vessel from its own coastguard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat in the South China Sea. The incident occurred... Read more »

“Are They Going to Refund All the Fines Paid by People Who Exceeded Childbirth Quotas Back in the Day?”

In an effort to combat falling birthrates, China’s central government has announced a plan to provide families with annual cash subsidies of 3,600 yuan per child under the age of three. Ninety... Read more »

Trump sparks concern after suggesting he might allow sales of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips in China | China

Donald Trump has flagged allowing Nvidia to sell chips in China that are more advanced than currently allowed, in another “deal” that would loosen export restrictions despite deep-seated fears in Washington that... Read more »

China Trend Watch: What’s Trending on Weibo Today (Aug 11-12, 2025)

Chinese Fruit Retailer Pagoda Faces Backlash Over CEO’s Tone-Deaf Remarks on High Fruit Prices [#百果园称不会迎合消费者#] [#百果园#] The Chinese fresh fruit retail chain Pagoda (百果园) is in hot water after its chairman Yu... Read more »

Why Peak China may finally have arrived | George Magnus

Proclamations about the inevitability of China’s dominance of the global economic system, or the so-called Chinese century, were made long before Donald Trump’s attempts to stymie its trade with the US. Common... Read more »

Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US | Technology sector

The chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenue from advanced chips sold to China in return for export licences to the key market, in... Read more »

‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head | Transnational repression

It was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As... Read more »