Netizen Voices: Sardonic Comments on “How to Get Back at Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi” Offer Socio-Political Commentary on China
Ongoing Sino-Japanese diplomatic tensions—touched off last month by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae...
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On “Xiaohongshu Balance-Sheet Comparisons”: “Can You Still Ignore the Fact That You Live on the Wrong Side of a One-Way Mirror?”
The mingling of so-called "TikTok refugees" with Chinese users on the PRC-based social network Xiaohongshu spawned a range of reactions, from some Chinese users’ excitement at the unexpected opening of a window...
China’s Drug Evaluation Center Curtails Public Data Access Amid Generic Medications Scandal; Whistleblower Deletes Weibo Account
After several doctors voiced concerns about the poor quality of domestically produced generic medications included in China’s national health-care plan—and after online sleuths found numerous examples of data fraud in clinical...
Glowing Post-Third Plenum Ministerial Press Conferences Met With Online Skepticism, Comment Filtering
For the past several months, China’s State Council Information Office has been hosting a series of press conferences intended to showcase the accomplishments of various government ministries and provincial-level...
Word(s) of the Week: “White-haired Movement” (白发运动, Báifà Yùndòng)
The “White-haired Movement” (白发运动, Báifà Yùndòng) refers to protests led by elderly and retired workers in Wuhan and Dalian in February 2023, and in Guangzhou in January 2023. The protesters were objecting to medical insurance...
Netizen Voices: “XXXX Is Good, XX Will Care For You When You’re Old”
A news article lauding the police work behind the arrest of a 64-year-old construction worker in Shanghai’s Pudong district instead drew attention to the financial insecurity experienced by China’s elderly workers. The...
Netizen Voices: Retirees in Wuhan, Dalian Protest Proposed Medical Insurance Cuts
On February 15, just weeks before the opening of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) legislative session in Beijing, thousands of Chinese retirees in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian held large demonstrations against...
Debt Plagues China’s COVID Patients Amidst Medicine Shortages
China’s recent COVID-19 wave has left patients and their families struggling with medical debt. A Peking University study estimated that as of January 11, 900 million people in China had been infected with COVID-19, and China’s...
China-Style Obamacare for 1 Billion People
At Bloomberg, Natasha Khan and Daryl Loo describe China’s $180 billion push to extend basic...
Frustrated “Lower-class” Parent Calls Out Classism
After a child in Shanghai received detention at school for failing to turn in a notice for a health insurance program his or her family did not qualify for, one of the child’s parents turned to the Internet to vent...
Cancer in China Influenced by Pollution, Poverty
The Xinhua News Agency looks at the different patterns of cancer treatment in China versus the west, due to China’s notorious environmental pollution and lack of adequate medical insurance: While the incidence rate of...
In China, Too, a Health-care System in Disarray
In the Washington Post, Steven Mufson reports on government efforts to reform a health care system that has left many uninsured or with poor quality care: China’s health-care system is in disarray, a side effect of the...
Kathrin Hille: Taiwan to rescue health insurance programme
From the Financial Times: Taiwan’s government has launched an emergency package to save the island’s health insurance scheme from imminent bankruptcy. The crisis of the scheme, which is running aground only 10 years after its creation, highlights the difficulties shared by all major industrial economies in finding a way to sustainably finance social security programmes […]
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