Earl Wang

Jun 25, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Jiannan Luo |Daniel Sneider |David Camroux |Earl Wang

In late April 2024, a man committed suicide after allegedly being swindled by his girlfriend, igniting gender tensions on the Chinese internet. Millions of online comments defended the man, known as ‘Fat Cat’, and attacked the girlfriend — discourse that quickly grew into generalised criticism of all women, accusing them of having a ‘money-worshiping’ mentality and squeezing men out of the dating market.

Jun 23, 2024 | exbulletin.com | David Camroux |Earl Wang

If Chinese President Xi Jinping's European tour in May 2024 was intended to warm increasingly frosty relations with the European Union and weaken transatlantic ties, it was a failure. The European Union's announcement of taxes on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and the anti-Chinese tone of the G7 leaders' communiqué less than a month later made this clear. Three countries were carefully chosen by China for Xi's European tour. In France, Xi celebrated 60 years of diplomatic relations.