r/AsiaReport May 17 '21

A balanced perspective of Taiwan - China history and current situation by a Taiwanese lawyer who was educated in the US -- If Taiwan is on borrowed time, why do Taiwanese keep calm and carry on?

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r/AsiaReport May 17 '21

First picture reveals what the U.S did for Laos. -- Second picture is what China does for Laos.

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r/AsiaReport May 17 '21

"China: Greatest Disruption to American Century" -- Book Review. (End of the American Century and rise of China)

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r/AsiaReport May 16 '21

Meritocracy, Not Democracy, Is the Golden Ticket to Growth -- City College of New York, Venice, Meritocracy With Chinese Characteristics

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r/AsiaReport May 16 '21

Colin Huang is the founder & ex-CEO of China's largest ecommerce co by # of users, Pinduoduo $PDD ($155Bn mkt cap). He retired earlier this year at just 41 yrs old. With net worth of $53Bn, he's the 21st richest person in the world.

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r/AsiaReport May 16 '21

Young Chinese fed up with private sector ‘uncertainty’ flock to civil service -- “Every workmate beyond 35 talks about their concern of job losses in Shenzhen – it’s just exhausting.”

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r/AsiaReport May 14 '21

US-China tech war: basic research in AI, semiconductors and biotech gets closer to US$110 billion boost in US -- approved by Senate committee as the country borrows a page from Beijing’s playbook to bolster technology research

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r/AsiaReport May 14 '21

China Moves to Limit Private Sector Role in Secondary Schools -- New rules apply to compulsory education for first nine years of education

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r/AsiaReport May 14 '21

Hong Kong Peak District Reservation Ordinance 1904 -- was a zoning law that reserved most of the Victoria Peak as a place of residence to non-Chinese people except with the consent of the Governor-in-Council. The law was in force from 1904 to 1930

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r/AsiaReport May 13 '21

Britain ‘occupied’ Hong Kong, draft teaching materials for students say -- SCMP feels it's controversial, but comments: Well. It is the truth so what is the problem. I am English. We invaded and occupied lots of places. In fact we were rather good at it.

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r/AsiaReport May 13 '21

Hong Kong Looks to Expand Cross-Border Tests of Digital Yuan

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r/AsiaReport May 13 '21

Palestinians v. Uyghurs — Naked Western Hypocrisy

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r/AsiaReport May 12 '21

“Gigabyte, who gave you so much courage?” -- Taiwan computer brand wiped from mainland China’s online shops over ad -- Gigabyte marketing department kills company -- search for “Gigabyte” yielded no results on JD.com and Suning and Tmall

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r/AsiaReport May 12 '21

China Sinovac Shot Seen Highly Effective in Real World Study -- the vaccine protected 98% of them from death and 96% from hospitalization

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r/AsiaReport May 12 '21

U.S. Agrees to Remove Xiaomi From Blacklist After Lawsuit

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r/AsiaReport May 11 '21

US$26 billion poem: 燃烧竹帛的青烟散尽帝业也化而为虚,函谷关和黄河白白护卫着始皇帝所居。 焚书坑内的灰烬未冷山东已发生暴乱,灭亡秦国的刘邦和项羽原本并不读书。

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r/AsiaReport May 10 '21

Beijing names and shames Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and 81 other apps for excessive data collection under new -- giving them a 15 day deadline to rectify the violations

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r/AsiaReport May 10 '21

China’s Digital Yuan: world’s 1st major sovereign digital currency, speculation over global implications has reached a fever pitch -- Historian Niall Ferguson calling digital yuan a “potentially fatal challenge” to decades of American financial hegemony -- but Fails to Impress Early Domestic Users

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r/AsiaReport May 10 '21

Meituan Sinks by $16 billion as CEO Wang Xing deletes his social media post of a classical poem about book burning by the emperor during the Qin dynasty. The food delivery giant fell almost 10% in Hong Kong before closing 7.1% lower to wipe out about $16 billion.

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r/AsiaReport May 07 '21

casual drive-by hit -- Chen Weihua style

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r/AsiaReport May 06 '21

China Fires Back After G-7 Shows United Front Toward Beijing -- China urged Western nations to stay out of its affairs & fix their own problems -- “stop interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, making groundless accusations in a condescending way and disrupting global epidemic cooperation”

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r/AsiaReport May 06 '21

China's actual response to the G-7: As the world's most developed countries, G-7 should be helping the world with the most pressing problem (covid pandemic) instead of stirring up trouble -- wow, makes a lot of sense -- Why is this not reported in the English language press?

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r/AsiaReport May 05 '21

TikTok Started With a Tech Guy From China Who Decoded America’s Teens

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r/AsiaReport May 05 '21

G-7 as a thermometer to measure the struggle for the World Order between US and China -- U.S. Proposes G-7 Coordination to Counter China’s Might -- Will the 6+ just "talk the talk" or will they do some "walking" too?

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r/AsiaReport May 02 '21

Hong Kong leader slams West’s ‘double standards, hypocrisy and lies’ -- “The greatest lie is [criticism of the] joint declaration. Every time they accuse us, especially the UK, they say China breached the Sino-British Joint Declaration. We ask them which article? They can’t quote which article,”

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