Weibo Scolded Over Content Control, Trend Manipulation
Social media platform Weibo has once again been targeted by Chinese regulators for failing to...
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LatestLi Guoqing: Who Says China Isn’t a Market Economy?
On December 11, as China celebrated 15 years since its accession to the World Trade...
1,000+ Arrested for Trafficking Babies on the Internet
China’s Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday that more than 1000 people have...
In China, E-Commerce a Legal Grey Area
Sijia Jiang of the South China Morning Post reports that with no law specifically governing...
Symptoms of the Hukou System and a Map to Reform
China Dialogue has republished a Caixin editorial from June outlining the benefits...
Police Turn Blind Eye To Baby Smuggling Trade
Zhang Suxia, an obstetrician in Shaanxi’s Fuping county, who for eight years allegedly sold her patient’s healthy babies on the booming black market, is at the heart of a recent baby-trafficking scandal, which has...
Coin of Realm in China Graft: Phony Receipts
The New York Times’ David Barboza describes China’s booming trade in fake fapiao tax receipts: To begin to comprehend China’s vast underground economy, one need only visit this city’s major transportation depots and...
New Measure Bans Private Adoptions of Orphans
China’s central government announced on Tuesday that individuals and groups who find abandoned children cannot privately adopt them. From the Associated Press: The new rules say people wanting to adopt must go through...
Facing Counterfeiting Crackdown, Beijing Vendors Fight Back
The Silk Street Market in Beijing is famous among locals and tourists alike as a massive mall of fake designer goods. Now Silk Street vendors of counterfeit bags and clothing are protesting a crackdown on their stalls by the...
China’s Black Market iPhones Surpass 1 million
Paul Ruppert reports on China’s black market iPhones, which represent 20 percent of the phone’s global market. From Mobile Messaging 2.0: Everyone is gaga about the iPhone–summer silly season–even in China where it...
Smugglers Return iPhones to China
Apple’s stalled negotiations with China Mobile may have delayed the iPhone’s official debut in China, but perhaps millions have already been sold by smugglers, some for more than $600. From the New York Times: These...
N.Y., China Investigating Black Market in Bodies
From ABC News: Authorities in China and New York have opened investigations into allegations that a black market in Chinese bodies, which may include executed prisoners, is sending corpses to the United States for public...
