Family and Relationship Trends in China — Across generations, across the urban-rural divide
There’s been much talk recently about China’s demographic challenges: a fast-ageing population, a fall in the number of marriages, and record low birth rates - despite the relaxation of the One Child ...
2 Heinä 41min
World Cup Dreams and Own Goals — Football in China
Despite the extra places on offer at this year’s expanded FIFA World Cup Finals, the Chinese men’s soccer team once again failed to qualify, continuing a series of disappointments dating back to 2002,...
17 Kesä 39min
Did China trump Trump? — After the Beijing summit
Donald Trump's visit to Beijing, the first by a US president in nine years, not only included plenty of pageantry, but produced some apparently substantive agreements. Aside from China resuming purcha...
21 Touko 42min
China's Middle East Balancing Act — Peace plans, pragmatism and economic prospects
The war in the Middle East has affected China in many ways: as well as targeting Iran, a country with which Beijing has a comprehensive strategic partnership, it has disrupted exports, rattled consume...
6 Touko 35min
Slower Growth, Hi-tech Self-reliance, and 'Ethnic Unity' — China plans the future
China's legislature this month set the nation's GDP growth target at 4.5 – 5%, the lowest since 1991, and also approved the country's new five year plan, which calls for higher quality growth with an ...
18 Maalis 40min
China's Economic Plans — and Consumer Challenges
China’s legislature is meeting in March to approve the nation’s new Five Year Plan, which aims to promote higher quality growth, and make China increasingly self-sufficient in new technology of all ki...
3 Maalis 43min
Xi Jinping and his Father — Power, purges, parenting
The run-up to the lunar year has been a busy one for China’s President Xi Jinping, with world leaders beating a path to Beijing to meet him; he also found time to purge two of the Chinese military’s t...
17 Helmi 45min
