The use of the standard Party formulation of Xi Jinping “pointing the way forward” on various policy issues has become so commonplace that the phrase has become an object of satire, a way of mocking Xi’s cult of personality and...
A collection of 40 jokes about China’s “zero-COVID policy” and its enforcers was posted by @丁逸峰 on Zhihu, the popular Chinese question-and-answer site. Many are styled in the grand tradition of “Soviet Jokes,” which have, at...
Since Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
In the days following the Sichuan earthquake, thousands of volunteers have arrived at quake sites to offer assistance. Peter Ford of The Christian Science Monitor reports on the societal and political implications of their...
Rowan Callick reports in the Australian: A half dozen friends from Beijing steer their three new four-wheel-drive cars, now caked in mud, to the side of the rock-strewn road to allow a People’s Liberation Army mobile...
Tom Mitchell reports in the Financial Times: The emergency teams that converged on Dujiangyan, one of the cities worst hit by this month’s devastating Sichuan earthquake, were joined by a small caravan from the Chengdu Catholic...
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