On March 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy was off to a good start in 2024, with reported 5.3% year-on-year GDP growth in the first quarter of the year. The better-than-expected...
A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen Guangbiao urging the Chinese government to keep its hands off people’s pocketbooks has attracted many supportive comments from...
In recent weeks, two very familiar household names in China—Nobel prize-winning novelist Mo Yan and bottled water company Nongfu Spring—have come under fire from extreme Chinese nationalists, who have accused the pair of odd...
By inadvertently “saying the quiet part out loud,” three recent media gaffes have touched off public debate on questions usually left unspoken. For some Chinese social media users, these blunders have provided an opportunity to...
Originally posted in 2011, this Ming’en Media video explains just how much every...
After breaking U.S. IPO records in September, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba this week made...
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every...
As the Year of the Water Snake comes to a close, the South China Morning post notes the...
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
Kim Severson at the New York Times reports that unusually high pecan consumption in China,...
Local government seizure of farmland is a major cause of social unrest in the Chinese countryside,...
After China’s infamous air pollution attracted much international attention last winter,...
Despite Wal-Mart’s turbulent run in China, the Arkansas based company has now received approval for its previous bid to raise its stake in an online supermarket. From Reuters: Wal-Mart had said in February it would raise its...
With news that mainland Chinese gold imports hit a record high in November, The Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese demand for gold has propped up global prices as consumers and investors alike stock up on the precious...
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a new column, CDT Money, a once-a-week roundup of business and economic news from China. We’ll be giving an overview of business and economic trends from the...
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, visited Wal-Marts across China and has written a lengthy piece for The Atlantic looking at the “interactive”...
The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog suggests that rising wages in China could spell the end of the cheap, plentiful manufactured goods to which Western consumers (or overconsumers) have become accustomed. $11 for a pair...
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