🔥 This is premium content and also appeared in the Weibo Watch newsletter. Subscribe to stay in the loop. How did Evil Unbound (731), one of the most anticipated Chinese war movies... Read more »
Hundreds of international students accepted on courses by University College London have been left in limbo and facing thousands of pounds in costs, after the university admitted it had run out of... Read more »
British prosecutors suspected that China’s fifth most senior official was in receipt of intelligence from Westminster in a controversial and now-abandoned espionage case, the Guardian understands. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said... Read more »
China, via a state-run enterprise, has reportedly banned its steel manufacturers from buying iron ore from Australian mining giant BHP, amid a strategic bid by Beijing to reduce prices of the crucial... Read more »
Welcome back to Lingua Sinica. The official closure of USAID back in July, coming on the heels of crippling cuts for Radio Free Asia and the gutting of Voice of America, naturally... Read more »
Vanuatu remains open to signing a wide-ranging deal with Australia but must assert its sovereignty and will not be subject to pressure or “bullying” from larger countries, the country’s internal affairs minister,... Read more »
The death of Jerome Cohen last week at the age of 95 prompted a wave of tributes to the legendary professor of Chinese law. Outside legal circles, Cohen may have been best... Read more »
In the run-up to the Global Women’s Summit slated for October in Beijing, which will mark the 30th anniversary of that city’s influential 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women, some WeChat accounts... Read more »
Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was arguably the most influential and prolific of the architects associated with the British postmodern movement. At the start of his private practice in 1965... Read more »
Serving Process on Chinese Defendants: Hague Service in China and the New Rules on Judgment Enforcement An American company spent years litigating a breach of contract case against a Shenzhen supplier. They... Read more »