Candice Chan

Apr 26, 2024 | thinkchina.sg | Candice Chan

- 26 April 2024 The prosperous and primitive era started with the reform and opening up of the 1980s and ended with the internet explosion of the 2010s. In this narrow time frame, broadband internet became a memory of the millennium. The Chinese Dreamcore has recently gained attention from niche visual arts — the concept is new, but the substance is not. With China’s rapid economic and technological development, a lot of memories and processes are becoming blurrier.

Apr 25, 2024 | thinkchina.sg | Tang Hanyu |Chen Yiying |Candice Chan

Translated by Candice Chan on 25 April 2024 (By Caixin journalists Zhou Xinda, Tang Hanyu, Chen Yiying and Han Wei.)The Chinese government is caught in a dilemma: there is a pressing need to boost contributions to what is the world’s largest social security system to better support the country’s ageing population, while simultaneously address growing calls to reduce the financial burden amid a wobbly economy and the slowest wages growth in up to 40 years.

Apr 25, 2024 | thinkchina.sg | Candice Chan

Translated by Candice Chan on 23 April 2024 Cambodia’s plan to build the Funan Techo Canal, a 180-kilometre waterway linking a port in its capital Phnom Penh with Kep province and onto the Gulf of Thailand, has made recent headlines, particularly in Vietnam. Pitched as a plan to revive Cambodia’s historic but under-utilised water systems, the canal will be 100 metres wide, 5.4 metres deep, and will accommodate ships of up to 3,000 deadweight tons (DWT).

Apr 25, 2024 | thinkchina.sg | Candice Chan

Translated by Candice Chan on 23 April 2024 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Washington and North Carolina in the US in April 2024, and held numerous meetings and exchanges, including a summit with US President Joe Biden and an address to the US Congress. The two leaders also issued a joint statement entitled “Global Partners for the Future”. This statement is believed to be aimed at upgrading the Japan-US alliance in terms of time frame and geographical space.

Apr 23, 2024 | thinkchina.sg | Candice Chan

Translated by Candice Chan on 18 April 2024 At the end of last year, it became a hot topic in Japan that Germany’s GDP in 2023 was set to exceed Japan’s. In February this year, data showed that if the GDPs of Japan and Germany in 2023, announced in November 2023, are converted into dollars at the average exchange rate of the same year, Germany’s GDP would be US$4.46 trillion and Japan’s GDP would be $4.21 trillion.