A short essay on awkward Sino-British relations, unusual photos of laughing Xi Jinping, robots for entertainment and last-mile delivery, and more:

Trump's China theatrics of the last nine months have achieved nothing, except for concentrating minds in Beijing on the urgent need for technological and financial independence from the U.S., and maing clear "how much stronger China has become":

New @thechinaweek.com: - The Emperor of Xinjiang - Art and advertising stunt in Tibet for Arc’teryx goes wrong - Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan gets another 4 years on trumped up charges - Links to eulogies for Jerome Cohen - And more

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This week: • A week of authoritarian pageantry in China • Troubled U.S.-China trade war pause • Heart drugs • Hit animated film • Brain-computer interface plans • Zambian Jehovah’s Witnesses leaning Chinese • And more…

The latest: • Soaring markets and another DeepSeek breakthrough •Putin and Modi to attend military parade • Trump's crumbling trade war update • Journalist denied Hong Kong visa • Youth culture, old consumers

New @thechinaweek.com: • China schmoozes India, Pakistan, Afghanistan • Xi in Tibet • U.S.-China trade and tech wars • Robot games • New visa to attract scientists • Short video on broadcast TV • Nigerian bullet train • Another diplomat disappears, and more

This week's newsletter is out: • Liu Jianchao detained • 40% of cars sold in China this year were electric • Trump chickens out again on trade and tech war • China Coast Guard ship rams Chinese Navy vessel • Star banker out of jail • China's mystery rooms in new U.K. embassy • Evergrande delisted

The China Week for the dog days of August: • The Party's Beidaihe retreat • Hong Kong floods • Free preschool • Bullying and non-consensual porn • First arrest under Macau's National Security Law • NVIDIA under scrutiny in China, and more

The China Week is up: • Deadly Beijing floods • Sex and corruption at Shaolin Temple • Supplicant Trump goes soft on Beijing • EU-China talks • $500 a year to have a baby • Belt and Road is back.

The latest China Week is out:

A lot of solar power, 100 million Communist Party members, a military drone the size of a mosquito, a lot of hot air from Trump, and more in the latest issue of The China Week:

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A quiet week full of noise: the latest China Week is out:

• China promises new funding for WHO which will partly make up for shortfall from U.S. withdrawal • BYD crushes Tesla • Huawei launches Harmony OS laptops • Turkey and spying on Uyghurs • New rules for "military-industrial facilities" • Cool Chengdu

The China Week May 13 to 20: • Battery giant CATL raises $4.6 billion • Xi's sweet potato economy • New cancer drug • Hamas “atrocities” are “unforgivable” • Hungary is more loyal to China than to Trump • Beijing warns against U.S. Huawei curbs • Coffee culture and business • And more…

The latest China Week: • Trade war update • Chinese jets shoot down India's planes • Xi in Moscow • Latin America comes to Beijing • Mixed economic signals • CATL listing, cars, operating systems, chips

The China news you need to know from the last week: • Labor day travel • Trade talks this weekend • Xi goes to Moscow • PLA Air Force in Egypt • Laws to protect the private sector • Hot new tech • CIA recruitment videos

This week's newsletter: • Beijing is ready for a long trade war • May travel boom • Xi❤️AI and delivery app wars • Dueling flags in the South China Sea, • Transnational repression • China jobs • Chinese views on Americans and Indians.

The latest @thechinaweek.com is out: • Xi's not going to dial that phone—my analysis • Charge your car for five minutes, drive 500 miles, plus sodium-ion batteries, robots, flying taxis • China's ceasefire team in Burma • Forced TV confessions are back • Will China stop illegal fishing?

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Tuesday's @thechinaweek.com • Chinese soldiers in Ukraine—Beijing denies sending cannon fodder to Russia • Suddenly, everybody ❤️ China • Trade war: Beijing calls Trump is a bully and a joker • Another military leader purged • Tech news: robots, AI adoption by government, low altitude economy, EVs

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The front cover of the March 1959 issue of Youth Pictorial magazine 青年画报. A detail of this image will illustrate The China Week newsletter, to be published tonight.

This all caps headline is rather misleading, see @fbermingham.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fber...

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He said yes. So that implies 45 percent tariffs on Chinese imports next week, if nothing changes. That’s potentially a huge deal for global trade.

Confessions of a Chinese internet censor: "My impression is that they need us to know about these things to do our job properly, but…they’re afraid of us knowing too much. They’d prefer we forget everything after executing their instructions." www.chinafile.com/re...

Asta Zeneca will likely find it easier to recruit American-trained scientists for this new research center too…

"Highlights of the event, which is now in its fifth year, include the launch of two CNY50 billion (USD6.8 billion) funds to support the development of the real economy"

China and Europe must lean ‘closer’ as Trump-led US turns its back on multilateral world, Norwegian foreign vice-minister Andreas Kravik says – SCMP

Spanish PM and senior officials from Italy and Portugal to China: www.reuters.com/world/spanis... english.news.cn/20250321/a60... english.news.cn/20250321/813...

//Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China.//

“the bulk of censorship implementation remains a low-skilled, low-paid, and labor-intensive task performed by human workers in the private sector.”

“Akeso’s new immunotherapy drug targeting non-small cell lung cancer, called ivonescimab, allowed half of its patients to go 11.1 months without their condition worsening”

“China's nationwide survey-based urban jobless rate was at its highest in two years at 5.4%, according to data released by the statistics bureau on Monday.”

From @joycekaram.bsky.social: How China gains from Trump-Houthi escalation www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ch...

Nice propaganda photo of Xi Jinping lecturing the locals in Guizhou from @sinocism.com.web.brid.gy: sinocism.com/p/xi-inspect...

As Tesla dies, BYD soars and XPeng flies

The latest issue of @thechinaweek.com is out, with a wrap up of the Two Sessions, news about the coming struggle to over the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, and the usual robots, AI, and flying cars:

This week's China Week newsletter is out: • China flexes Pacific muscles • Farm productivity boost to reduce China’s grain imports? • Alibaba boosts markets • Putin phones Xi, Beijing talks to Damascus • Flying cars: Move over Cybertruck

The latest newsletter from The China Week is out, including: • Who attended Xi Jinping's meeting for business and tech executives and what it means • Nezha 2's box office bounty • Uncertain times for Taiwan • Beijing tickles Elon Musk’s soft underbelly

China's spent the better part of the last five years proofing itself against the kind of trade measures the U.S. is taking now against it - in fact, it was literally a part of their last Five Year Plan. www.npr.org/2020/10/29/9...

It’s not just soft power. China is starting to eat America’s technology lunch, a trend sure to be hastened by funding cuts to research, and hostility to skilled immigrants. Links and summaries below.

New @thechinaweek.com dropped: • Real great leaps for Chinese soft power and tech • Marriages down by 20.5% • All the latest on China-U.S. tariffs and trade war • China's positions on Israel and talks with Arab states • The Chinese internet mourns Big S