Day: September 14, 2021

Advertisement There are claims that a new “Resolution on History” may be on the horizon in China. This would revise a previous “Resolution on History” issued under Deng Xiaoping in 1981 criticizing the Cultural Revolution. “Questions of the party’s historical experience and major successes” and “summarizing the 100-year struggle” will be the focus of the Sixth Plenum of the 19th Party Congress scheduled for November, according to a Xinhua report on August 31. Following Xinhua, on September 1 privately owned New York-based media company Duowei News claimed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a third “Resolution…

Advertisement A series of diplomatic statements by China has indicated a “cautious alliance” between the country and the Taliban. On their part, the Taliban have declared China to be Afghanistan’s “main partner.” In the wake of the violent return to power of the Taliban, international leaders have made much of China’s potential role in Afghanistan. Most statements emphasize the possible dividends of growing levels of Chinese investment in Afghanistan in the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – China’s central foreign policy scheme that seeks to create land…

Advertisement A Beijing court ruled against a Chinese woman on Tuesday in a #MeToo case that wound through the courts for three years, in a blow to the tamped-down movement whose legacy remains uncertain. The Haidian People’s Court said in a judgment released late Tuesday night that Zhou Xiaoxuan, who had become the face of the country’s #MeToo movement, did not meet the burden of proof in claiming that Zhu Jun, her superior at her place of work, sexually harassed her. Zhou, also known by her online moniker Xianzi, was…

Advertisement After the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China implemented a successful national lockdown to contain the spread of the virus in China. China’s government attributed the effective virus containment, represented by the long stretches of zero new COVID-19 cases, to the “phenomenal leadership of the Communist Party” and its “institutional superiority” over Western liberal democratic systems. The core logic of China’s COVID-19 containment policy is “zero-tolerance”: The Chinese government has shut down its borders to minimize foreign-imported COVID-19 cases and locks down any locality with COVID-19…

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and WeChat are two of the most popular social media platforms in China. Both apps, along with platforms from Alibaba, have been accused of blocking links to rivals, a practice Beijing is trying to stamp out. Photo: AP South China Morning Post