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Day: January 27, 2022
How Australia’s PM presented WeChat account loss as a China threat
But some analysts say the greatest impact of a boycott would fall on Chinese Australians, for whom WeChat is a big part of daily life. It’s used most commonly to communicate with family in China, but is also a marketplace, a social space, and even a payment platform. BBC
Entering Beijing’s Olympics Bubble Is a Surreal Experience
Advertisement For the thousands of athletes, journalists, and others descending on Beijing for the Winter Olympics, China’s strict pandemic measures are creating a surreal and at times anxious experience. China is isolating everyone coming from abroad from any contact with the general public for the duration of the Games, which open next week. That means being taken from the Beijing airport in special vehicles to a hotel surrounded by temporary barricades that keep participants in and the public out. “I know the only experience of Beijing I’m going to experience…
Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’
The author of Fight Club has praised the “happy ending” afforded to David Fincher’s film of his book for a new Chinese cut of the movie. Chuck Palahniuk described the change, in which the police successfully foil an anarchist plot and the heroes are incarcerated, as “SUPER wonderful”. Palahniuk told TMZ: “The irony is that … they’ve aligned the ending almost exactly with the ending of the book, as opposed to Fincher’s ending, which was the more spectacular visual ending. So in a way, the Chinese brought the movie back…
Covid Case in Beijing Olympic Bubble Is Linked to a German Team
A supervisor in Germany’s Olympic delegation has tested positive for the coronavirus within the closed loop in Beijing, the German Olympic Sports Confederation said on Thursday, confirming one of the first cases connected to an athletic team within the bubblelike environment meant to shield participants from the rest of the world. The positive case was identified on Sunday after a P.C.R. test administered in Zhangjiakou, where many of the snow events will take place about 100 miles northwest of Beijing, the confederation said. The supervisor is asymptomatic and is currently…
The Chinese Watch Brand That Beat the Swiss
In 2016 Zhang Jianmin was on a visit to Milan when he decided to buy an expensive suit. The purchase was something of a flight of fancy: Mr. Zhang, founder and president of CIGA Design, a wristwatch manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, imagined wearing it to the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. The annual awards event, commonly called G.P.H.G. or the Grand Prix, is often described as “the Oscars of watchmaking.” “I told myself, I will only wear this suit on the G.P.H.G. stage when I win the award,” Mr.…
ASEAN Supports Supply Chains Amid Trade Diversions
ASEAN Supports Supply Chains Amid Trade Diversions | South China Morning Post At the China Conference: United States 2021, Dr. Mary E. Lovely, Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Sourabh Gupta, Head of the Trade & Tech Program at the Institute for China-America Studies spoke about the growing importance of ASEAN and the current state of shifting supply chains the Southeast Asian region. This conversation was hosted by Owen Churchill, U.S.-Based Reporter at the South China Morning Post. READ FULL ARTICLE South China Morning Post
Global SinoPhoto awards – Chinese culture in pictures
An image titled The Dancing Dreams of a Mountain Girl, depicting a young mountain girl dancing for her grandmother in a village in China, is the overall winner of an international photo competition celebrating Chinese culture. The Global SinoPhoto awards invited photographers to tell Chinese stories, imagining, interpreting and inspiring connections between Chinese culture and the rest of the world. The awards covered four categories: water (as 2022 is the year of the water tiger), home, work and play, and environment. The Museum of East Asian Art (MEAA) in Bath…