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BY INVITATION: The slow boat in China is good for the region [Straits Times]...
East Asia Institute professional fellow John Wong with an overview on China’s rejigging of its growth rhetoric and how ASEAN stands to benefit. China has sustained hyper growth for more than 30 years....
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Why China’s Current Anti-Corruption Campaign is Different [Wall Street...
By hook or by crook, this systemic dent has always impeded China’s full potential. It has been one of its major Achilles heels since antiquity. That said and I argue again, it is not corruption that...
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Course teaches Chinese women how to marry ‘elite’ foreigner in 90 days [SCMP]...
Service or opportunism? Buying a stairway to marital dreams set to be more common as China’s burgeoning young and middle class seek material wealth but are encumbered by being time poor. That many are...
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China is not the world’s other superpower [Washington Post] #RisingChina #SinoUS
Fareed Zakaria poses challenge to China to stand up and be counted as a superpower in global terms. There are many loopholes in this assumption China does the world and its partners no good. However if...
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Summit to avoid ‘inevitable’ US-China tensions [The Age] #RisingChina #SinoUS
Torn in a great and powerful friends dilemma, Australia’s strategy to finely leverage both its American and Chinese friendships is a challenging one. The article below was fed across Aussie broadsheets...
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China’s New Backyard [Foreign Policy] #RisingChina #SinoUS...
The overt American pivot meets Chinese sleight of encirclement… Tit for that no matter the perception filter. Is this setting indicative for the early half of the twenty first century? Two camps...
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Chinese telco Huawei tries to shake off spy image after NBN ban [ABC News...
So it seems to wearing made in China is fine, or eating out of plates made there does not require too much afterthought. However, using their information infrastructure and equipment to send messages...
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China’s Expanding Life Spans—and Waistlines [Bloomberg] #RisingChina #Health...
Checking the rear view mirror of China’s rise: Urbanisation and public health concerns over the creeping obsolescence of physical activity in China’s time-compressed concrete jungles. - – - China’s...
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Greater US-China ties can cut both ways [Straits Times]
A greater engagement between the two countries is helpful, but it is a double-edged sword. Certainly, better understanding between leaders reduces the risk of greater distrust. But it could also expect...
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Percussion shows me the world [People's Daily] #RisingChina #GlobalPulse...
Good stuff! No pulse = no life. Better days ahead for the global pulse… without the excess baggage of visual culture nor colour symbolism. - – - Percussion shows me the world Edited and translated by...
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A letter to China’s first space teacher from U.S. predecessor [Xinhua]
From space, we’re all just part of the same pale blue dot… To better days ahead! To Morgan, distance cannot separate Americans and Chinese, and teaching seems to have no boundary. - – - A letter to...
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Foreign buyers eye Chinese drones [China Daily] #RisingChina #UAV #HardPower
A glimpse at one of three state backed UAV projects. For more, see Low-cost Chinese drone to be unveiled at Zhuhai show: Mainland enters lucrative global UAV market with prices well below US and...
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Here’s the real crisis in Australia [Bloomberg/The Age] #RisingChina...
Australia matters because it’s in the vanguard of nations, rich and poor, who are grappling with how to adjust to a slowing China. William Pesek Knowing where to look matters. For instance, Australia...
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Trial flight photos of China’s J-31 stealth fighter [Xinhua] #RisingChina...
Hard power update: the Shenyang J-31 is a fifth-generation jet fighter with stealth characteristics developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Please visit the Xinhua page for high res photos....
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Parents learn a costly lesson on homes [China Daily] #RisingChina #Education
The commodification of education meets the Chinese mind. A 28-sq-m one-bedroom apartment recently sold for 2.35 million yuan – an incredible 83,000 yuan per sq m – in the downtown district of Jing’an....
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Rules shouldn’t be made to be broken – Shanghai [Global Times] #RisingChina...
There is still some way to go before Beijing consensus and civilised society go hand in hand. How the new leaders set an example is vital. ‘...following a rule is not considered a matter of pride in...
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Chinese bus drivers in Singapore tossed aside after strike [China Labor...
It appears overseas Chinese workers are spared no quarter in a foreign land with a Chinese-majority complemented by a foreign workforce that takes up >20% of the island’s population - There are at...
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Market Research Trends in China [Thoughtful China] #RisingChina #MarketTrends
Social media agency Thoughtful Media on keeping ahead of China’s consumer boom. A blurp from their Youtube presence here - Collecting and evaluating market research is a critical step for every...
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Hospitals should be city’s priority – SHANGHAI [Global Times] #RisingChina...
Global Times: Chinese fourth estate at work, using a foreign voice to draw attention to China’s public healthcare chasm. ‘Upon arriving at the hospital, I was struck by the number of people lying on...
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Being Chinese in South-east Asia [Straits Times] #RisingChina #OverseasChinese
Once overshadowed by ethnic branding and stereotypes… This book disproves the lie that the Chinese cannot be integrated because of their racial exclusivity, their loyalty by default to China, and the...
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