China’s Social Credit System

The Lunar New Year holiday is among the priciest time to travel in China, but this year, Chinese internet user Lan He managed to score a one-way flight ticket from Kunming, Yunnan province, to her parents’ home about two hours away in Jian, Jiangxi province, for less than 500 yuan…

Last week, a friend suggested something unexpected: “Why not invite our husbands to see the Chinese feminist movie Her Story? ” Everyone agreed and we watched the film as a group. Afterwards, we discussed the movie as men and women sharing perspectives, in a way I had rarely experienced before.…

A challenge of being part of the establishment in a dying empire is the need to ignore and explain away obvious signs of imperial decline and demonise rival empires. Inevitably, the shock delivered to purported American AI supremacy by Chinese start-up DeepSeek — which even Trump supporters hailed as a…

Employees of a company in China faced off in a contest to "earn" their bonuses during an annual party that took place on Jan 25. Videos of Henan Mine's event on Douyin show long tables covered with cash, which employees are seen grabbing and counting. Employees were told to split into teams of…

The large model storm stirred up by DeepSeek is escalating in both China and the United States. On January 27th, the Apple App Store’s free list in China showed that DeepSeek had reached the top spot. At the same time, DeepSeek soared from sixth place to first place on the…

An aerial drone photo shows the snow scenery of the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall in Luanping County, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 26, 2025. (Photo by Zhou Wanping/Xinhua) An aerial drone photo shows the snow scenery of the Wangwu Mountain scenic spot in Jiyuan City, central China's Henan…

Photo taken on Jan. 24, 2025 shows the "KAWA Ningbo" cargo ship of the "China-Europe Express" in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The first container ship of the "China-Europe Express", the fastest direct route connecting Europe and China's Yangtze River Delta region, arrived at its destination at the Jade Weser Port in Wilhelmshaven…

A drone photo shows traffic flows on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 25, 2025. As the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) draws near, an unprecedented 9 billion inter-regional trips are expected during this year's chunyun, or 40-day Spring Festival travel rush. (Photo by…

This combo photo shows Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), speaking to representatives of troops across the military via video link, Jan. 24, 2025. Xi extended Spring Festival greetings to all servicemen…

On January 22, Amap officially announced that the first English map for overseas users in China has been launched. Currently, the Amap downloaded from Google Play and App Store still defaults to Chinese mode. However, the language setting function is available in the iOS version of Amap app. The button…