Police in one Inner Mongolia city published photos of 90 people who joined protests against Mandarin-language education policies. The photos appeared to be taken from surveillance-camera footage. “The police will thoroughly investigate them all." @evawxiaoon.wsj.com/3hV2rRh
@evawxiao "In response to the civil unrest and boycotting of classes this past week, the local government also instructed cadres to discipline those who spread rumors, especially those with 'inappropriate views' of the central government." @evawxiaoon.wsj.com/3hV2rRh
@evawxiao “Our ethnic language will slowly disappear—parents are worried about this,” said one woman whose daughter is starting third grade. In Inner Mongolia, which is one-sixth ethnic Mongolian, children already pick up Mandarin via TV and daily life, she said. on.wsj.com/3hV2rRh
@evawxiao “China’s ethnic minorities do not have the power to protect their own culture.” “I am Chinese, I am Mongolian, you can take anything from me except my mother language. Without language, I cannot say that I am Mongolian.” @evawxiao on.wsj.com/3hV2rRh
@evawxiao The former president of Mongolia has come out in support of the Inner Mongolia protests: "We need to voice our support for Mongolians striving to preserve their mother tongue and scripture in China." bit.ly/3bmauUN
@evawxiao Mongolia's current president has also sent an oblique message of support, reciting a poem by a Mongolian from China and emphasizing the connections between Mongolian language and Mongolian identity. @jdierkesbit.ly/3lOigM3
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China’s push to replace foreign technology is now focused on cutting American chip makers out of the country’s telecoms systems.
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@lizalinwsj @raffaelehuang @rachelliang5602 Officials this year directed China's largest telecom carriers to phase out foreign processors that are core to their networks by 2027, a move that would hit American chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, people familiar with the matter said. wsj.com/tech/china-tel…
@lizalinwsj @raffaelehuang @rachelliang5602 China's deadline aims to accelerate efforts to halt the use of such core chips in its telecom infrastructure. State-owned mobile operators must inspect their networks for non-Chinese semiconductors and draft timelines to replace them, the people said. wsj.com/tech/china-tel…
BYD is running into challenges in its overseas expansion, finding that its rapid growth at home doesn’t necessarily translate into quick success in big foreign markets such as Europe.
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@selina_cheng @riverakiradavis @raffaelehuang Executives at BYD, which overtook Tesla late last year as the top global seller of EVs, said the issues included weak market demand, too-high pricing, quality control and internal tension over how quickly BYD should seek to grab market share. wsj.com/business/autos…
@selina_cheng @riverakiradavis @raffaelehuang They said the company’s inexperience showed in some problems that have arisen, such as the handling of mold in cars and the piling up of thousands of vehicles in European warehouses. wsj.com/business/autos…
U.S. officials across the political spectrum have described Chinese corporate theft as a defining threat of our times. A Justice Department loss last week underscores the challenges in addressing it.
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When engineers and managers at the Taiwan factory of U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology left with hundreds of internal files for a rival teaming up with a Chinese government-owned company, it seemed an open-and-shut case of state-sponsored corporate theft. wsj.com/tech/micron-ch…
A federal judge in San Francisco disagreed, acquitting Chinese state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit last week of charges of economic espionage and conspiracy. It was a crushing defeat for the U.S. Justice Department. wsj.com/tech/micron-ch…
Two days after Lai Ching-te wins the presidency in Taiwan, Beijing makes its move, poaching Nauru, a Pacific island nation of about 10,000 people—and, until today, one of Taiwan's 13 formal diplomatic allies.
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@joyuwang @ByChunHan Nauru’s government said it would stop recognizing Taipei and instead seek formal relations with Beijing—a switch that marks “a significant first step in moving forward with Nauru’s development,” according to the island nation’s Facebook page. wsj.com/world/asia/tai…
Taiwan responded by ending official ties with Nauru, said Tien Chung-kwang, a deputy foreign minister, at a news conference in Taipei. Tien accused China of using money to win over Nauru, and described the diplomatic switch as a sudden move. wsj.com/world/asia/tai…
"China’s Jobless Don’t Always Show Up in the Data. But They Show Up in the Library. Unemployed and afraid to tell their families, many need a place to figure out their futures; for some, it’s the stacks"
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@xinwenfan Every weekday, Qin Ran arrives early at a Beijing public library, settles into her favorite cubicle, and tries to figure out what to do with her life. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
It has been two years since Qin, 36, lost her job at a private-equity firm. Yet after submitting a hundred or so résumés, she’s only landed two failed interviews. She now spends her days browsing social media and studying for a grad school entrance exam. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
The Economist: "Japanification is too mild a diagnosis of China’s ills. A chronic shortfall in growth would be worse in China because its people are poorer. Japan’s living standards were about 60% of America’s by 1990; China’s today are less than 20%." economist.com/leaders/2023/0…
"And, unlike Japan, China is also suffering from something more profound than weak demand and heavy debt. Many of its challenges stem from broader failures of its economic policymaking—which are getting worse as President Xi Jinping centralises power." economist.com/leaders/2023/0…
"Mounting policy failures…look less like a new, self-sacrificing focus on national security, than plain bad decision-making. They have coincided with Mr Xi’s centralisation of power and his replacement of technocrats with loyalists in top jobs." economist.com/leaders/2023/0…