As the ongoing controversy with the NBA over a team general manager’s tweet in support of Hong Kong has laid bare, foreign corporations and other entities operating in China face an increasingly erratic environment, where...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The names of the issuing bodies have been omitted to protect the sources. All websites: Remove all...
On October 8, Cover News launched a survey questionnaire on Weibo asking for readers’ take...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All websites: Delete the episode...
On October 6th, a Sina Weibo user who was unhappy with the backlash over the Houston Rockets...
Following a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in which he expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the Chinese government has made moves to ban the team–one of the most popular NBA...
More than 100 scholars have protested the inclusion of 239 English words and abbreviations including NBA and PM2.5 in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary. From Global Times: In the letter, experts point out that including such...
The Wall Street Journal reports that New York Knicks fans aren’t alone in their disappointment over the news that Jeremy Lin will play for the Houston Rockets next year: As unhappy as some U.S. basketball fans may be at...
Vice President Xi Jinping, who is slated to take over the helm of the Party from Hu Jintao later this year, will visit the U.S. next week. His visit comes as tensions with the U.S. are heightened over a number of issues:...
The Wall Street Journal calls attention to Jeremy Lin, who has suddenly become China’s newest NBA idol in the absence of the now-retired Yao Ming: Lin, a former Harvard star who went undrafted out of college, gives up 14...
With Yao Ming set to announce his retirement from the NBA tomorrow, China is set to lose its largest (and tallest) international sports star. The New York Times reports: For nearly a decade, China has been enthralled by the cult...
NBA star Yao Ming is planning to retire from professional basketball, Reuters reports: Yao had cast doubt on his return to the NBA last month when he admitted to the possibility he may not play again because of his ongoing...
Turns out the closely-watched decision by basketball star LeBron James to join the Miami Heat had everything to do with China. The Forbes blog explains: At that moment, though, Stephen Smith interjected and emphatically,...
The Washington Wizards basketball team is visiting China to commemorate a trip to the country thirty years ago by the same team (then called the Washington Bullets), which marked the first visit to China by a professional U.S....
From AFP: Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert has signed an agreement to sell a minority stake in the National Basketball Association team and its arena to a group of Chinese investors. A Chinese group led by Huang...
The NBA has launched a plan to help build 12 new arenas throughout China. From AP: NBA commissioner David Stern did not say when the plan would be starting, or where the buildings would be located. “We weren’t going...
From New York Times: Amid a bustling Chinatown in Flushing, Queens, Ken Niu is among the many only-when-it-is-convenient basketball fans. He catches a game when he can, but is not necessarily disappointed when he cannot. Niu is...
From International Herald Tribune: NBA playoff games have been dropped by CCTV. The network’s sports channel director, Jiang Heping, explains that “Since the May 12 earthquake, we’re careful about the way we...
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