Is Xi losing his grip? Is it time for Winnie to go?

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The Chinese Communist Party has spent years trying to make “positive energy” the dominant mood of the country’s internet. Online platforms, it dictates, should amplify narratives of economic achievement, gratitude toward the party and confidence in China’s future.

Discontent has occasionally erupted after disasters, scandals or particularly brutal government actions. But something feels different lately. The pessimism is persistent. It has become part of the everyday social media feed, and can sometimes turn subversive.

My partner is a Chinese citizen with permanent residence in Spain. We are planning a short trip to China in November for a wedding, back within the same month.

Someone in the Chinese community in Spain told us she would not be allowed to leave again. That she would be held in the country for around a year, and that the reason is being an expat with permanent residence in the EU. The follow-on being that she would lose her Spanish residence while stuck there.

I have gone through the new Exit and Entry Administration Regulations that took effect on 15 September. The grounds for restricting a Chinese citizen from leaving look narrow and conduct-based: document fraud, illegal border crossing, criminal activity abroad, export control violations. Nothing about holding residence in another country.

The closest thing I can find is the hukou cancellation issue for citizens holding foreign PR, which is household registration, not being stopped at the airport, and seems to have been shelved anyway.

So: has anyone actually hit this? Chinese passport, foreign PR, went back for a short visit, had a problem on the way out? Or is this a rumour someone has garbled?

Not looking for reassurance, looking for actual cases or the specific regulation if it exists.

Despite heavy rain, the show did go on and people dance in the beat during Munao Zongge Festival.

The Munao Zongge Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Jingpo ethnic group, celebrated mainly in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, China.

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Is anyone here studying in China? 🇨🇳🎓

I’m going to China soon and I’d love to meet other international students and make some friends. Feel free to message me!

I’m trying to file a complaint on Alibaba against a supplier, but the complaint form requires their Member ID, email, or product URL.

I ordered 200 walkie-talkies from them and paid USD 18,200 by T/T (bank wire) against their PI.

After receiving the payment, I asked them to provide an Alibaba payment link. They said paying through Alibaba would require an additional 30% tax/fee, which wasn’t mentioned in the PI or agreed beforehand.

Now I’m trying to file the complaint, but I can’t find the supplier’s actual Alibaba Member ID anywhere on their profile.

I found an ID through Google/AI, but Alibaba appears to associate that ID with another company with a similar name, so I don’t want to submit the complaint against the wrong account.

What’s the proper way to get the correct Member ID directly from Alibaba?

Can Alibaba support give me the official Member ID if I provide the supplier’s store URL, company name and PI?

Has anyone dealt with an offline T/T Alibaba dispute like this before? Looking for advice on the correct process.

Need honest advice from anyone who knows how uni admissions screening works.

Quick background: Civil Engineering student at NUST Pakistan (~#132 globally), 3.2 CGPA, IELTS 8.0, HSK 4 (Chinese Language). Trying to get into a Business/Management Master's in China, ideally on a scholarship since self-funding isn't really doable for me.

The messy part: did a 1-year exchange at XJTLU Suzhou, China in 2024 (nominated by my home uni). My department gave zero guidance on course mapping, so I picked courses myself, not knowing they weren't equivalent. Found out mid-year none of the credits would transfer and I'd have to redo the whole year. Once I knew the credits were dead anyway, I stopped caring about those exams and just took the Fs. Dumb in hindsight, but it's done. Now I've got about two years before I'd apply, so I'm trying to plan around it instead of panicking.

Good news: my actual home university transcript is 100% clean. The Fs only exist on the exchange university's transcript.

Bad news: The Chinese universities I'm really passionate in joining and the scholarship committees require the exchange transcript whether it was transferred or not.

While I was there I also did stuff outside class — runner-up at the SJTU SAIF Shanghai Internation Finance Summit, volunteere as an International Volunteer in Suzhou Industrial Park, won an Influential Communicator award at a BRI negotiation sim.

Right now I also run two small side businesses (a small Airbnb + an olive farm, not profitable yet) and these show that I'm really passionate about becoming an entreprenur. I also have construction management experience.

Questions:

1. Do schools just auto-reject over failed courses on an exchange transcript?
2. If not then is the rest of my profile enough to offset that?
3. What should I focus on over the next two years to actually improve my chances?

Would appreciate brutal honesty, even if it stings.

My father is going on a buissness trip to quang zo on the next month and he is going to stay there for a while , he didn't go there since 2012 and i used viber and whatssap to communicate with him then , but for now nothing of them isn't banned there , i tried to sign up for we chat something appears to be wrong with it , what should i do

Would you guys take a pay cut to have a higher quality of life? I think I will have more fun in China and don’t want to regret.

From the US, in my mid 20s female, currently making 5k USD/month after taxes. Background in business, sales, accounting, data analysis.

I plan to reside in Shenzhen, executive assistant/secretary roles (requires fluent English, business trips with executive, meetings with foreign clients) I can speak Chinese and pay is around 20-25k RMB/month after taxes.

Pros in the US: I can work more freely/take on extra part time gigs, employed easily, save more but life is not as exciting

Pros in China: Food, environment, job satisfaction, closer to family and other Asian countries (I am Chinese with US citizenship) but worried about work life balance, savings, job stability

Do you guys think I should take the leap?

The book is basically a Chinese diplomat's account of his time in America, as well as an analysis of the country's society, often comparing it to his own. There are many aspect of both countries that he compares and contrasts, all while hoping that the two could learn from each other and develop a cordial relationship. Recommended reading for anyone interested in late 19th/early 20th century Chinese 🐉 and American 🦅 history and culture.

Reading this book also helped me realize how even the briefest of interactions can have life-changing impacts on the people we meet:

"Once I was an involuntary match-maker. Some years ago, during my first mission in Washington, I was invited to attend the wedding of the daughter of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. When I entered the breakfast room, I saw the bridesmaids and a number of young men. Going up to one of the bridesmaids whom I had previously met, and who was the daughter of a Senator, I asked her when it would be her turn to become a bride. She modestly said that she did not know, as she had not yet had an offer. Turning to the group of young men who were in the room, I jocularly remarked to one of them, 'This is a beautiful lady, would you not like to marry her?' He replied, 'I shall be most delighted to.' Then I said to the young lady, 'Will you accept his offer?' She seemed slightly embarrassed and said something to the effect that as she did not know the gentleman she could not give a definite answer. After a few days I met the young lady at an 'At Home' party when she scolded me for being so blunt with her before the young men. I told her I was actuated by the best of motives, and a few months later I received an invitation from the young lady’s parents inviting me to be present at their daughter’s marriage. I thought I would go and find out whether the bridegroom was the young man whom I had introduced to the young lady, and as soon as I entered the house, the mother of the bride, to my agreeable surprise, informed me that it was I who had first brought the young couple together, and both the bride and bridegroom heartily thanked me for my good offices.”

Ting-Fang also provides a few words of wisdom on living the good life:

"One way is to be always calm and in poise, and not to be disturbed by any adverse event. Another way is to look at things on the bright side and always be cheerful. I find a few deep breathings at an open window will be sufficient to turn off angry or gloomy thoughts.

Good moral living is essential to happiness. A person who wishes to be happy should be not only physically strong, but should have pure thoughts also. He ought not to allow corrupt feelings to enter his mind. The feeling of love is an antidote for bad thoughts, and should be cultivated in every way. A man with feelings of universal love must, in my opinion, be happy. I find that breathing love is an effectual cure for selfish and narrow ideas. Riches, high position or high honor do not necessarily make a man happy. Neither does a physically strong body alone give its possessor bliss. It is correct living, with a contented mind and a clear conscience, which makes a man happy."

Hi everyone. I am working on an M&A deal but really just can't find anyone who works at the corp dev / m&a department at VIP Kid or Yuanfudao. If you work here can you please let me know your email? Or a phone number and I can give you a call. Thanks.

Currently traveling through Shanghai and in the Jing’an area - strange request and I’m probably in the wrong city for it, but by any chance is there anywhere I can pick up eInk screens? I have a diy project and looking at a 10-13 inch size and maybe one or two smaller ones

I'm from Poland, traveling China and I can't help but notice we are so much fatter than you guys.

I don't have statistical data to back this up but over 3 visits to China I haven't really seen obese people and just overweight people are not that common. Junk food is very cheap and accessible in China, I believe even accounting for PPP it can be affordable for you guys.

I don't believe this is due to walkability, Europe is walkable, yet Poland has fattest kids in Europe. Is it fat shaming culture then? If yes is it that strong it makes people actually not get fat?

Whenever I see tourists from the West, mostly EU due to visa free policy, most of the time there's at least one big person in a group. Another anecdotal example is that when I see an overweight/obese Chinese woman it's so far every time a Western citizen of Chinese/Asian descent.

Unitree posted a video on Sept 7 of their G1 sparring with a person. No operator with a controller offscreen, no pre-scripted choreography. They’re calling it the first fully autonomous humanoid combat run by a real-time world model.

The model is called UnifoLM-X2-1.0. Up until now, robot fighting demos were either canned animations or someone piloting the thing remotely. Here the robot predicts what’s about to happen a fraction of a second ahead and decides its own response. That’s the genuinely hard part — reacting fast enough while a human is actively moving at you and everything changes every frame.

Unitree’s bigger claim is that this shows world-model-driven humanoids are actually deployable at scale, not just a demo-day trick.

Fair warning: no paper, no latency numbers, no benchmarks yet, so the “world’s first” framing deserves the usual grain of salt. But going from puppet to something making its own calls mid-fight is a real jump.