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Our collection of weekly news for the period July 27 - August 4, enjoy!

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👩🏻‍💻 DOMESTIC POLITICS

You have a choice: China’s top court empowers people to say ‘no’ to facial recognition use by private businesses

🇨🇳🇦🇫 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

王毅会见阿富汗塔利班政治委员会负责人巴拉达尔 – Wang Yi meets with Baradar, head of the Taliban Political Committee in Afghanistan

📊 ECONOMICS

“China will continue with efforts to expand access for foreign investors,” said China’s banking and insurance watchdog

Chinese Central Bank said that “China will maintain a prudent, flexible and targeted monetary policy in the second half of the year”

🕹 TECHNOLOGY

Tencent tumbles after China media calls online gaming “spiritual opium”

🐫 CULTURE

The Musical “The Voice of the Silk Road” staged at the Shaanxi Grand Theater – 音乐剧《丝路之声》上演

What happened last week? Here’s a recap!

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 CHINA-USA

US Deputy Secretary of State added China to her Asian itinerary

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 DOMESTIC POLITICS

How to implement the three-child policy?

🧑🏻‍🎨 SOCIETY

The patriotic illustrators trying to paint the internet red

🏯CULTURE

“Quanzhou: China’s world marine trade center in the Song and Yuan dynasties was listed as a world heritage site

⛈CLIMATE

Dozens of deaths and hundreds of thousands were displaced after heavy rain pounded the central province of Henan

📈BUSINESS

US-listed Chinese companies must disclose the risks of the Chinese government interfering in their business

Another week of news related to , as explained in Western and Chinese newspapers.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

G7: U.S. calls on allies to follow its lead in containing China

G7: China’s Response

🆘 DEFENSE

Shifting Focus, NATO Views China as a Global Security Challenge

🎯 ALLIANCES

June 15, 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of SCO’s birth

🐉 DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

89.14 million trips have been made during the Dragon Boat Festival, recovering to 98.7% of pre-pandemic levels

🚀 SPACE

Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship launched in northwest China on Thursday

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How successful has China's vaccine diplomacy been and what are the challenges lying ahead?

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"Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown, after launching space station hub"

‘Out-of-control’ Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown, after launching space station hub

"China Sounds Abroad: Migration, Mobility, and Modernity"

China Sounds Abroad The conference aims at a systematic investigation of the sonic dimension of China’s modern history and rising global presence. With its focus on travel, mobility, reception, and meaning of Chinese musical sounds abroad, this international and interdisciplinary meeting seeks to come to a better und...

"The man told police he arrived in a 2.6m rubber dinghy he bought online"

Chinese man seeking ‘freedom and equality’ says he travelled to Taiwan in dinghy The man told police he arrived in a 2.6m rubber dinghy he bought online

"With the unprecedented success of Chloé Zhao and Nomadland at this week’s Oscars, Film Quarterly here offers a special Quorum edition: Gina Marchetti applies her expertise in Chinese cinema to decipher the influences lurking just under the surface of a film that may just be more Chinese than anyone realizes."

Chloé Zhao and China: The Nomadland Moment Gina Marchetti on the various ways in which China marks Chloé Zhao's "Nomadland".

"The Chinese defence ministry urged the United States on Thursday to rein in its frontline forces which Beijing has said have become more active in the air and seas near China this year."

China urges U.S. to restrain frontline forces in nearby seas The Chinese defence ministry urged the United States on Thursday to rein in its frontline forces which Beijing has said have become more active in the air and seas near China this year.

"Sixteen children and two teachers were hurt on Tuesday when a knife-wielding man ran amok in a kindergarten in southern China."

16 children stabbed in Chinese kindergarten as man goes on rampage Two youngsters suffer ‘relatively serious’ injuries, two teachers also hurt in attack in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, CCTV says.

堂吉诃德

Chinese Don Quixote is translated into Spanish after 100 years Lin Shu’s forgotten 1922 text, The Story of the Enchanted Knight – with a less deluded Don Quixote – in edition for China and Spain