‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks | Climate crisis

World leaders have unveiled new targets to cut planet-heating pollution at the United Nations, in a bid to spur fresh impetus to the beleaguered climate effort a day after Donald Trump called... Read more »

China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts | Climate crisis

China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe. The... Read more »

The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich | Margaret Sullivan

In 2020, only a tiny fraction of Americans got news from TikTok. These days, that number has soared to one in five. For young adults, those figures are much higher, with almost... Read more »

Opponents of Australia cutting emissions pointed to China’s lack of a target. That argument just got harder to make | Australian politics

Anything China does on energy and climate change is very big news. Its plans ripple around the world, whether that’s in changing the demand for fossil fuels or affecting the impacts on... Read more »

Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal | Technology

The White House has confirmed a deal to transfer ownership of TikTok to a group of US investors. Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that creates a structure for the... Read more »

Trump signs executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners | TikTok

Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday outlining the terms of a deal to transfer TikTok to a US owner. Trump said he and China’s president Xi Jinping had come to an... Read more »

Merch sellers cash in on Kirk’s killing with flood of social media ads | Charlie Kirk shooting

Just hours after Charlie Kirk’s death was confirmed, hundreds of advertisements for memorial merchandise appeared on Facebook and Instagram. In a viral post with more than 8,000 shares and hundreds of thousands... Read more »

Evil Unbound (731): How a Chinese Anti-Japanese War Film Backfired

🔥 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 »

“Lying Down” Vloggers Banned for Espousing the Simple Life

Some popular social media accounts that depict “lying down”—eschewing the rat race in favor of a more frugal, less ambitious, low-consumption lifestyle—have recently been deplatformed, to the dismay of their many fans.... Read more »

Contract Enforcement in China: What Works and What Doesn’t

Our clients will sometimes tell us that they view contract enforcement in China as impossible. They’re partly right. Enforcing contracts in China is complicated, unpredictable, and very different than in the West.... Read more »