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Chinese society is reeling from a series of deadly attacks. The reaction from authorities is often suppression.

The police in the city of Zhuhai detained a man who they said had rammed a small vehicle into people who were exercising at a sports center.

Beijing’s model is hitting roadblocks. It needs to move toward more home-grown spending – even if one-party politics makes that hard
China faces what the economist noted decades ago: explosive growth is unbalanced, and success embeds that unevenness into political, business and cultural institutions, making change tough. China now stands at this .
The Asian giant’s economic growth, which previously relied on exports and a debt-driven construction boom, is facing : the disastrous crash from a investment spree, big losses hitting the banks, and local governments facing a crippling debt crisis. With households highly indebted, China cannot just build more apartments to sell. Sustaining an export-led boom will become harder as anti-dumping measures and Donald Trump’s tariffs hit. All this when Chinese firms plunging profits.

At least 35 people are killed and 43 injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of people in Zhuhai.

Today I went into Chinese Latino restaurants and ordered in Chinese and Spanish simultaneously. They were totally shocked! This is a rare type of restaurant in NYC combining cuisine from both China ...

UK’s biggest pharmaceutical company ‘committed to China’ as it raises 2024 profit forecast and announces $3.5bn US investment
AstraZeneca’s chief executive has said it is taking investigations by Chinese authorities into its business in the country “very seriously” and insisted it is committed to China in the long run.
Authorities are thought to be investigating the importation of two cancer treatments manufactured by Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company into China.

Kaja Kallas says Ukraine’s victory in war is ‘a priority for us all’, adding that it is also in the US interest
China should face “a higher cost” for supporting Russia in the war against Ukraine, the EU’s incoming foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said.
The former Estonian prime minister was speaking to MEPs during a three-hour hearing before she takes office, when she listed Ukraine’s victory as a priority – stronger words than vaguer formulas of support voiced by some EU politicians.

New visualizations of the Chinese stealth bomber Xi'an H-20 have surfaced on Chinese social media. The aircraft, under development since 2016, is reportedly being designed in a flying wing ...

Man detained after incident on Monday night in Zhuhai, in which 35 people were killed and 43 injured
A driver killed 35 people and severely injured another 43 when he rammed his car into people exercising at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, police said on Tuesday.
Police had detained a 62-year-old man at the sports centre in Zhuhai after the ramming late on Monday, on the eve of an airshow by the People’s Liberation Army that is hosted annually in the city.

Rubio reportedly in line for secretary of state, while Waltz expected to be made national security adviser
President-elect has reportedly decided to appoint the prominent China hawks Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz as his respective secretary of state and national security adviser.
Rubio was arguably the most hawkish option on Trump’s shortlist for secretary of state, and he has in past years advocated for a muscular foreign policy with respect to America’s geopolitical foes, including China, Iran and Cuba.

An irascible priest loses his patience with a newcomer to Hong Kong’s funeral traditions in punchy melodrama of a film
Starting out as a prickly comedy in which wedding planner Dominic (Hong Kong standup icon Dayo Wong) switches to the funeral business, The Last Dance takes a sudden sombre turn. Dominic lands a seemingly unhinged client, turned down by all his competitors, who wants him to embalm her young son. As a string of putrefied matter hangs from the boy’s back while he is dressing him, Dominic realises he has already been dead for six months. It’s not the only mortician scene – and not the only note of unsettling realism with which writer-director Anselm Chan ballasts this well-constructed and punchy melodrama.
Bequeathed the funeral agent gig by his girlfriend’s retiring uncle, Dominic must get to grips with his new business partner: ball-breaking Taoist priest Master Man (Michael Hui), who performs the “breaking hell’s gate” rites that liberate departing souls. The veteran is unimpressed by the commercially oriented newcomer, who is so keen on flashy gimmicks that he commissions a paper Maserati for the funeral of someone who died in a car crash. It becomes apparent, though, that Man’s traditionalism is covering up his own grief and leads to his unbending treatment of anyone in his vicinity.

Chinese stocks and the yuan slumped as fears of worsening Sino-American tensions further undermined investor confidence after a slew of disappointing economic developments.