Day: November 10, 2022

Xi Jinping has asked his army to prepare for war. The Chinese President believes China’s security has been increasingly “unstable and uncertain”. Molly Gambhir tells you more. #Gravitas #China #XiJinping

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0:00 Highlight 0:27 Apple to cut iPhone shipments due to unexpected lockdown of China’s major plant 2:58 China’s Belt & Road ‘debt trap’ enlist a newcomer? This time, in Africa 4:48 As Confucius Institutes go down, Luban Workshops are on the rise 7:46 Emergency! Drought in Zhejiang: only 50 days of water supply left in many places —————– #SpotlightOnChina #China #ChinaInsights

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Nov 10, 2022 00:27 You are targeted! China’s Party Congress sends a signal to rich Chinese. 02:38 ‘Going out registration form’ in Zhengzhou is like entering or leaving a prison form. 03:50 Chinese billionaires see wealth drop most over two decades amid an economic downturn. 06:19 ‘New Long March’: spreading in the Chinese business world. —————– #SpotlightOnChina #China #ChinaInsights

The supply and marketing cooperatives, which we will abbreviate as SMC, may be unfamiliar to young people today, but is very well known for Chinese people over the age of 40. Growing up in China’s planned economy, the SMCs were the only channel for purchasing production and living materials in the rural areas, and everything had to be bought with a ticket. Founded in the 1950s and 1960s, SMCs were the darlings of the planned economy. They relied on “centralized purchasing and marketing” to buy and sell fo