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Marvel movies return to China after 4-year break

BEIJING: Chinese film fans on Wednesday celebrated the return of Marvel movies to the country’s cinemas after an absence of nearly four years.

Bangkok Post

Lunar New Year rush starts in China after virus rules lifted

Millions of Chinese are taking advantage of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions to make an emotional journey back to their families for Lunar New Year holidays

The Independent UK

What it would take for Apple to disentangle itself from China

The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America’s biggest geopolitical rival. But is diversification even possible?

Financial Times

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China's pessimistic Gen Z poses challenge for Xi post-COVID

The first weekend after COVID-19 restrictions ended last month, dozens of young Chinese jostled in the dark at a heavy-metal concert in a tiny Shanghai music venue that reeked of sweat and hard liquor.

Reuters

US-China trade is close to a record, defying talk of decoupling

Trade between the U.S. and China is on track to break records, a signal of resilient links between the world’s top economies amid the heated national security rhetoric in Washington and fears of “decoupling.”

Tribune News Service

How will China respond to ChatGPT?

Fortune

Biden administration imposes China chip curbs on Macau

The Biden administration on Tuesday hit Macau with sweeping new export controls it previously imposed on shipments of advanced chips and chipmaking equipment to Beijing, flagging the risk that the technology could be diverted from the region to the rest of China.

Reuters

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Chinese doctors avoid the C-word

BEIJING: During a busy shift at the height of Beijing’s Covid wave, a physician at a private hospital saw a printed notice in the emergency department: doctors should “try not to” write Covid-induced respiratory failure on death certificates.

Bangkok Post

Chinese woman says she is detained in secret location after Beijing protest

Video purportedly shows 26-year-old editor, who accuses police of forcing her and friends to sign blank arrest warrants

The Guardian - UK

Australian justice appointed to Hong Kong court argues foreign judges shouldn’t ‘vacate the field’

Exclusive: Some legal figures have raised concerns about message his appointment sends in light of Beijing’s crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong

The Guardian - AU

Factbox-How China is seeking to boost its falling birth rate

China saw its population fall by roughly 850,000 last year - its first drop in six decades that marks the start of an expected long-term decline in citizen numbers with major economic consequences.

Reuters

China's economy grows at slowest pace in decades

BEIJING: China's economy grew last year at its slowest pace in four decades as it was hammered by Covid-19 lockdowns and a property crisis but the forecast-beating reading raised hopes for a strong recovery as it reopens.

Bangkok Post

China's population shrinks for first time since 1960

BEIJING: China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the world's most populous nation faces a looming demographic crisis.

Bangkok Post

China's first population drop in six decades sounds alarm on demographic crisis

China's population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications for its economy and the world.

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Tribune News Service

Yellen sets surprise meeting with China’s vice premier in Switzerland

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will hold her first face-to-face meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Wednesday in Zurich, making a detour on her way to talks in Africa.

Daily Mirror

Massive explosion at China chemical plant kills five with more than 30 injured in disaster

Five were killed and eight remain missing after an enormous fire broke out at a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city of Panjin in north-eastern China, east of the capital of Beijing

The Times of India

Coronavirus: China’s hospital Covid death data just a tenth of total toll

BEIJING: The nearly 60,000 Covid-related deaths China reported for the first five weeks of its current outbreak, the largest the world has ever seen, may underestimate the true toll by hundreds of thousands of fatalities, experts said.

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong keen on Thai investors

Hong kong: Thai startups are being encouraged to explore business opportunities in Hong Kong, after Beijing eased its Covid-19 rules and reopened borders on Jan 8.

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What happened to Zhao Lijian? China's 'Wolf Warrior' diplomat has been mysteriously shifted aside

China's controversial diplomat Zhao Lijian has stepped back from China's diplomatic front line. Does that mean China will give up the aggressive and assertive Wolf Warrior diplomacy?

Reuters

China, Hong Kong resume high-speed rail link after 3 years of COVID curbs

China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as it dismantles travel curbs after Beijing scrapped quarantine for arrivals a week earlier.

Reuters

WHO says its chief spoke with Chinese officials, welcomes COVID-19 data

The World Health Organization's head has spoken with Chinese authorities and the agency welcomed new information about the situation in the country, WHO said on Saturday after Beijing released new data showing a big jump in COVID-19-related deaths.

Bangkok Post

China links Covid to 60,000 recent deaths

BEIJING: Chinese health authorities on Saturday reported almost 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month, in the first major update released by the government since the loosening of its virus restrictions in early December.

Reuters

China reports huge rise in COVID-related deaths after data criticism

China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last month, a huge increase from previously reported figures that follows global criticism of the country's coronavirus data.

Reuters

Japan's Kishida says allies must act in concert on China

Japan, the United States and Europe must act in unison on China, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in Washington on Friday, during a visit aimed at enhancing Tokyo's U.S. alliance in the face of growing challenges from Beijing.

The Guardian - UK

China to take ‘golden shares’ in tech firms Alibaba and Tencent

Move marks shift in focus by Beijing as it tries to extend influence and keep sector in check

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