Taiwanese Influencers Push Back After China Issues Bounties for Their Arrest
China has issued bounties targeting Taiwanese online influencers, prompting swift and satirical pushback from those named and renewed debate in Taiwan about the Chinese...
Chinese People Going Extinct? Xpeng Launches Female Robot, Leftover Women Panic as Men Choose Bots
On November 5th, at Xpeng’s AI Day, a humanoid robot named IRON made a graceful debut. Standing at 1.73 meters tall, she moved with...
Lawmakers Urge Commerce Department to Probe Chinese Tech Company Over Security Concerns
A bipartisan group of 23 lawmakers is urging Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate networking equipment made by TP-Link Technologies and its affiliates, warning...
Cop30: climate protesters rally in Brazil at UN summit’s halfway mark
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Belem on Saturday to press for action from negotiators holding tough talks at the United Nations’...
Hong Kong’s history makers raise standards at Games with gold, silver, bronze
Hong Kong has got used to its athletes making history at major sporting events in the past, but even by those lofty standards, Saturday...
Shocking Revelations: Undercover “Girlfriend” and Missing USB — What Really Happened in Room 923?
China Insights delivers sharp, data-driven analysis of China’s politics, economy, and society. We connect the dots behind breaking headlines — from Beijing’s power shifts...
Italy’s South Tyrol region scraps planned dog tourist tax
Tourists will not have to pay a tax for their dogs in the Italian region of South Tyrol after the regional government withdrew a...
How Baumkuchen ‘tree cake’ survived disasters to become a Japanese favourite
Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started...
What Zohran Mamdani’s New York win could mean for future of China-US ties
Supporters erupted in joy last week as Zohran Mamdani won a commanding victory in the New York mayoral race, becoming the first Muslim elected...