In-depth Reports

In-depth Reports 05/13/22, 05:34

On May 11, the Wall Street Journal reported under the headline "China's Forgotten Premier Steps Out of Xi's Shadow as Economic Fixer." The article revealed that people close to policymakers said Chinese Premier Minister Li Keqiang was trying to influence the selection of his replacement when he steps down as premier in less than ...

In-depth Reports 05/12/22, 01:20

According to Bloomberg, a Dutch investment firm has developed a screening tool that blacklists several assets from China. With 118 billion dollars under management, Van Lanschot Kempen NV said that the tool would filter environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks. Nikesh Patel, the firm's senior executive at the company, said that this ...

In-depth Reports 05/11/22, 03:13

Nature has always been one of the most revered cosmic aspects in classical Chinese culture. It is the scenario of the interaction of the forces that govern the relationship between Heaven and Earth, and human beings. And it is also the source of sustenance and social stability. In this sense, Chinese ...

Insights 05/10/22, 16:23

Postmortem workers were surprised to discover a corpse twitched on May 1. Funeral home employees in mainland China arguably experienced the biggest shock of their lives after a deceased older man suddenly moved. A video that went viral on the internet shows the harrowing moment at least three morgue staffers loaded the ...

In-depth Reports 05/10/22, 09:15

According to Comic Book Resources (CBR), on April 29th, Chinese box office analyst and reporter Oliver Chen confirmed that the long-awaited Doctor Strange sequel has been officially banned in China.  No official reason has been provided. However, according to CBR, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness drew some heavy criticism ...

In-depth Reports 05/09/22, 22:50

A Department of Defense study has shown the Chinese government is making use of a U.S. government-program to serve their own interests. The Pentagon’s Small Business Innovation Research program aims at promoting innovation among small U.S. companies. The awards process is competitive. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, the report finds ...

In-depth Reports 05/09/22, 18:56

The Han ethnic group represents 92% of the total Chinese population. That is more than 1.4 billion people, almost one-fifth of the world's population. The Han have always been the majority in the territory we know today as the Republic of China. They also ruled dynasty after dynasty, except for the ...

In-depth Reports 05/09/22, 07:52

China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) presented on May 7 that the country's foreign exchange reserves fell 68.2 billion dollars or 2.14% to 3.11 trillion dollars in April. This is the largest single-month decline since November 2016. As seen clearly from SAFE's data, China's foreign exchange reserves have experienced a ...

In-depth Reports 05/08/22, 06:58

Reuters reported that officials from the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) are in China to finalize a dispute over the auditing compliance of the U.S.–listed Chinese firms. PCAOB requests complete access to audit working papers of New York-listed Chinese entities stored in China. However, Beijing refused to let overseas ...

In-depth Reports 05/07/22, 14:03

Shanghai has been closed for more than a month, and extreme epidemic prevention measures have caused public outrage. Recently, Shanghai police summoned a citizen accused of playing "The Internationale"—a song once highly promoted by the CCP but now feared by the authorities—.  The case attracted the attention of netizens, and censors ...

News 05/06/22, 06:01

Unthinkable stories in Shanghai continue to appear during the pandemic lockdown period. A nursing home in Shanghai recently put a living person in a body bag and asked the funeral home to take it for cremation. The funeral home staff discovered that the old man was still alive in the bag ...

In-depth Reports 05/05/22, 09:22

On April 8, the 10th day after Shanghai's community was locked down, it was drizzling outside, and a man was reluctant to turn on the lights in the rental house. In the corner of the dim dining table, Li Xiang, who had been idle at home all the time, began ...

Human Rights 05/05/22, 02:51

Financial Times, citing four people familiar with the internal discussions, said the U.S. is moving toward imposing heavy sanctions on Hikvision, a Chinese video surveillance firm. The sanction is related to human rights abuses. The U.S. has long condemned Beijing for committing genocide. Washington also accused the company of supplying the Chinese regime ...

In-depth Reports 05/05/22, 00:53

Over the past several decades, China’s income gap has expanded significantly. The current inequality issue is so acute that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has explicitly emphasized the goal of “common prosperity” at a prominent meeting in August 2021 of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, requiring an “olive-shaped ...

Trending 05/04/22, 20:44

The Chinese communist regime, like any authoritarian model, seeks to homogenize the way its citizens think and act. Therefore, everything must happen as designed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which was the method used to perpetuate itself during the last decades. Western art, fashion, and ideals of freedom have always ...

In-depth Reports 05/04/22, 13:06

Shanghai began to release the number of deaths among its COVID-19 patients while the strict lockdown continues. Reuters reported that the official data released since April 17 shows a sudden increase in deaths. However, the reliability of those figures is questioned, as they remain far lower than elsewhere. Recently, the Jiading ...