Category: China

China played a role in this year’s presidential election in Brazil, with all candidates talking tough on China. But if you look at the two frontrunners’ track records on China, their actions tell a different story. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at Lula Da Silva’s record on China when he was president, Jair Bolsonaro’s track record on China when he was president, and what each has said about Brazil’s China problem.

Chinese police stations have been cropping up all over the world, and not with the knowledge or permission of the host country. That’s according to a report by the human right organization Safeguard Defenders, which uncovered 53 police stations in 30 countries. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at which countries have launched investigations, which have not, and which are brushing it off.

It happened, Apple capitulated to China once again!

Faced with worsening urban floods, cities in China are embracing nature and building ‘sponge cities’. These sponge cities allow urban areas to absorb water in times of high rainfall and release it in times of drought. #China #SpongeCity

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GOME Retail Holdings, once one of China’s leading electronics retailers, continues to reduce its holdings. As of November 19, Gome’s share prices have tumbled from HK$0.66 at the beginning of the year to HK $0.122, with a current market value of about $562 million (HK $4.4 billion). —

Four Henan rural banks froze 40 billion RMB ($6 billion) of retail deposits in April 2022. Chinese homeowners threatened to halt mortgage payments on development project apartments within three months. Though unrelated, many people associate the two events. The mortgage boycott began so soon after the rural banking crisis, which fears about frozen savings may have spurred, and both incidents were disproportionately focused on Henan; this huge, agriculturally important, landlocked province in central China’s

Could China stop the flow of deadly fentanyl that killed more Americans last year than car accidents? Some say yes, and that China’s not even trying to because fentanyl is part of its chemical warfare strategy aimed at weakening the US. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about China’s use of chemical warfare as part of its unrestricted warfare stratefy, the US recognizing China as an adversary, and how China could use TikTok to its advantage. Joining us in this podcast is Cleo Paskal, a senior fel

This is a scene from a high-speed railway station in Nanchang, a provincial capital city of China, on November 12th, 2022. At 20:00, a transformer on the side of the road at this station caught fire and made explosive noises. One day before the fire at Nanchang West Station, on November 11th, 2022, an explosion occurred in two subway cars on Shanghai Metro Line 11. From the video, you can see the trains emitting sparks, smoke, and a loud explosion. The accident happened in the morning, during work hours. T