Day: November 30, 2021

The public has only seen tightly orchestrated videos and photos of tennis star Peng Shuai since she accused former top communist party official Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her. In one of the photos, uploaded to Twitter by a journalist for state-run CGTN, Peng appears with a Kung Fu panda in front of a photo of Winnie the Pooh. In this Just Us episode of China Unscripted, we discuss the cryptic messages Peng might be trying to transmit through this photo, as well as how the Chinese internet has tried

China is striving to dupe the Automatic Identification System or the AIS to prevent world monitors from tracking the shipping data off China’s shores. Fixed-point terrestrial AIS receivers on China’s coastline and interior waterways, which used to transmit the locations of nearby ships dozens of times per minute, are now mostly dark. AIS data is vital for shipping companies for tracking and securing their ships, along with accordingly facilitating ship traffic, to avoid clogging and congestion at destinatio

Today I will talk about how I look at the latest Omicron variant, the Covid19 situation in China, and why the CCP has to impose a “zero tolerance” policy in its pandemic control effort? I will also show you a short video of people fighting for food in China, and discuss what we can learn about China and Chinese society from that video. So, please make sure you stick around till the end.