Social Issues

Beijing ends a decades-long tax break on contraception while subsidizing matchmakers, as births plunge and the population rapidly ages.

A violent message targeting a Japanese school follows recent attacks and growing nationalist rhetoric as Tokyo urges citizens to stay vigilant.

The sales growth is significantly lower than last year, which indicates ‘poor quality growth’ amid deflation.

The unusual publicity of such cases by the regime is intended for deterrence, while indicating tightened control, said analysts.

The new bridge was meant to showcase China’s meeting its infrastructure goals. It only opened to traffic a few months ago.

Meanwhile, some orphanages in one province are seeing more adoptions as it appears that more Chinese choose to raise children without tying the knot.

China’s export-based economy and technological dependence on the west are in conflict with the regime’s ‘major country’ diplomacy, analysts say.

State media touted economic progress, while Chinese people have described worsening hardship, political contradictions, and fading public trust in Xi’s rule.

Days before the CCP’s Fourth Plenum, China cracked down on international travel for employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions.

On Chinese social media, the topic ‘ordinary people feel nothing about the Fourth Plenum’ has gained significant traction.

Beijing’s generous K-visa angers job-hungry locals and, analysts say, it acts as a soft-power lure for young tech workers from the Global South.

Business owners and residents say the actual situation is worse than what official data show.

The regime called Yu Menglong’s fall accidental, but social media posts claim he was drugged before falling or pushed from the window.

The extreme control measures are not necessary and spark suspicion that other diseases are spreading at the same time, according to experts.

Chinese state media said the ‘China-Europe Arctic Express’ is ‘far more than just a new shipping route.’

Alternative routes can’t replace the China-Europe Railway Express mainline that goes through the Poland-Belarus border, according to analysts.

Analysts said China’s unemployment crisis is long-term as it’s rooted in the ruling regime’s structural problems.

‘It’s a very difficult situation,’ Pope Leo XIV said.

Beijing ends a decades-long tax break on contraception while subsidizing matchmakers, as births plunge and the population rapidly ages.

A violent message targeting a Japanese school follows recent attacks and growing nationalist rhetoric as Tokyo urges citizens to stay vigilant.

The sales growth is significantly lower than last year, which indicates ‘poor quality growth’ amid deflation.

The unusual publicity of such cases by the regime is intended for deterrence, while indicating tightened control, said analysts.

The new bridge was meant to showcase China’s meeting its infrastructure goals. It only opened to traffic a few months ago.

Meanwhile, some orphanages in one province are seeing more adoptions as it appears that more Chinese choose to raise children without tying the knot.

China’s export-based economy and technological dependence on the west are in conflict with the regime’s ‘major country’ diplomacy, analysts say.

State media touted economic progress, while Chinese people have described worsening hardship, political contradictions, and fading public trust in Xi’s rule.

Days before the CCP’s Fourth Plenum, China cracked down on international travel for employees of state-owned enterprises and institutions.

On Chinese social media, the topic ‘ordinary people feel nothing about the Fourth Plenum’ has gained significant traction.

Beijing’s generous K-visa angers job-hungry locals and, analysts say, it acts as a soft-power lure for young tech workers from the Global South.

Business owners and residents say the actual situation is worse than what official data show.

The regime called Yu Menglong’s fall accidental, but social media posts claim he was drugged before falling or pushed from the window.

The extreme control measures are not necessary and spark suspicion that other diseases are spreading at the same time, according to experts.

Chinese state media said the ‘China-Europe Arctic Express’ is ‘far more than just a new shipping route.’

Alternative routes can’t replace the China-Europe Railway Express mainline that goes through the Poland-Belarus border, according to analysts.

Analysts said China’s unemployment crisis is long-term as it’s rooted in the ruling regime’s structural problems.

‘It’s a very difficult situation,’ Pope Leo XIV said.