China Issues
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Why Taiwan’s dominant role in supplying world’s computer chips has the US worried
Washington has been trying to convince the island’s top manufacturer to establish a base in the US and to stop making advanced chips for Chinese firms.
Maria Ryan, The Conversation
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With Winter Olympics only weeks away, can China fix its international image problem?
Many Western governments have announced a diplomatic boycott of the games over Beijing’s treatment of the Uyghurs and individuals who exercise dissent.
Jennifer YJ Hsu, The Conversation
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China is browbeating students into silence – even on American campuses
Learners and scholars who criticise the Communist regime can face quick retaliation from fellow students and officials who harass their families back home.
Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica
Trending
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Gujarat ignored trial court’s opinion as board with five BJP members set Bilkis Bano convicts free
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Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl: A marriage that defied the Third Reich
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An 18th-century letter to Bombay shows what it was like to be in service of the East India Company
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‘They are Brahmins...have good values’: BJP MLA defends release of Bilkis Bano gangrape convicts
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In Godhra, Bilkis Bano convicts felicitated by RSS member soon after their release
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In China, ‘leftover women’ are using money power to fight the stigma of being single
Women now contribute some 41% to the GDP, the largest proportion of any nation in the world.
Chih-Ling Liu, The Conversation & Robert Kozinets, The Conversation
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China is targeting ‘sissy men’ in its crackdown on big tech
The government regulators have banned the appearance of ‘niang pao’ – literally, ‘girlie guns’ – on both television and video streaming sites.
Shuaishuai Wang, The Conversation
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China bans ‘effeminate men’ on TV
In a crackdown on the entertainment industry, the government called for limits on performers’ pay and for the promotion of ‘traditional, revolutionary’ culture.
Scroll Staff
Video
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'Never gonna give you up': British musician Rick Astley recreates his 1987 hit for insurance ad
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Caught on live TV: Man steals beachgoer’s bag in Barcelona, arrested later
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Watch: Elephant returns a child’s shoe that fell into its zoo enclosure
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Caught on camera: Criminals rob Rs 6 lakh at gunpoint from Prayagraj shop with people inside
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‘Looks like fried rice’: Comedian Saloni Gaur’s mother, grandmother roast her in spoof on complexion
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After decades of restricting religion, the Chinese Communist Party is carefully allowing its revival
The party’s support for faith comes with caveats and restrictions.
Mario Poceski, The Conversation
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Even in China’s newfound environmentism, there is a streak of authoritarianism
A newly published book by scholars Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro provides a cautionary take on the consequences of Beijing’s coercive green push.
China Dialogue
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China bans actors with tattoos and hip-hop singers from television
The country’s top media regulator said hip-hop represented a decadent culture and issued warnings to rappers.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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‘Khamosh Pani’ revisited: ‘A reminder of the path we took and the price we pay now’
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‘Between Two Dawns’ review: A gripping film about workplace ethics
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Deepa Mehta’s ‘Earth’ is a reminder of lines arbitrarily drawn between countries and hearts
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Watch: ‘Pippa’ teaser is out, release date set for December 2
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Does Netflix series ‘The Sandman’ make your every comic-loving dream come true?