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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
Football coach Pan Xin was impressed by the vibrant atmosphere at the Jiangsu City Football League’s opening match a month ago, but admits to being surprised it has persisted. The game drew a large crowd – including senior provincial officials – with cheerleaders adding a dash of colour, and was broadcast live by state media, he said. “It felt like a great start to the event, but I didn’t anticipate such a lasting impact,” said Pan, who coaches a youth football team in Danyang, Jiangsu province.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
The official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party has cautioned against an “addiction” to blind card packs and blind boxes among the country's youths as the summer holiday approaches. People’s Daily called for strict identity verification to curb the “out-of-control consumption” of blind boxes – opaque packages containing randomly chosen toys, models or cards – by minors in a report published on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
Supply chain competition between China and the United States is set to intensify over the next five years, with eight developing countries – including four in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) – poised to benefit from the relocation of manufacturing from China, according to a recent study.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Israel’s attack on Iran an “unacceptable” breach of international law and urged measures to de-escalate tensions in phone calls with his Israeli and Iranian counterparts on Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
As Chinese companies ponder how best to market their products internationally, the example set by Pop Mart – the Beijing-based brand behind the viral Labubu toy – has been praised by the country’s state media for the creativity that underlies its success.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo |Leopold Chen
After two days of closely watched trade talks between the United States and China in London, US President Donald Trump has declared the negotiations have led to a wide-ranging deal to maintain the fragile truce laid out after earlier talks in Geneva. The agreement, Trump said, would cover numerous points of contention, including shipments of rare earth minerals, student visas and tariffs.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Mandy Zuo |Leopold Chen
UN General Assembly president, Yang either forgot or doesn’t know the history of the region — and how the UN has undermined peace and the security of the Jewish state at almost every instance since 1948. To talk about a just peace and living with dignity in two states after the massacre of October 7 without first getting rid of Hamas, freeing the remaining hostages from Hamas clutches, and acknowledging Israel cannot safely go back to its 1967 borders is ludicrous.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
When Jack Wang enrolled as an undergraduate in microelectronics at a prestigious Chinese university, the year was 2019, and China was in the early days of its trade war with the United States. Looking back, his decision to focus on the field revolving around the design and manufacture of hi-tech microchips has proved prescient. Today, it complements Beijing’s aspirations to make world-leading semiconductors amid Washington’s amped-up efforts to curtail China’s technological progress.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
Soybean farmers in the United States have stepped up efforts to diversify their export markets while maintaining China as a critical buyer, despite ongoing trade tensions between the two superpowers, according to the head of a leading industry association.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Mandy Zuo
Subsidising men’s participation in household chores and childcare could help reverse declining global birth rates, according to a new study, offering a fresh approach to deepening demographic challenges in countries like China. The study, co-authored by researchers from Fudan University and the University of Hong Kong (HKU), argued that subsidies for fathers produce significantly higher long-term fertility gains than solely subsidising mothers.
