South China Morning Post

China’s military parade on October 1 – one of the largest in human history – to observe the 70th anniversary of the communist republic’s founding was largely aimed at a domestic audience.

But the bigger impact of the massive display of Chinese military hardware was on the world stage, particularly on its neighbors and the US-led West, whether it was intended or not.

Beijing proclaimed that the parade was showing a “peace-loving and responsible China.”

Nevertheless, the widely asked question…

A week into a crisis in China caused by a controversial tweet, the NBA may have found some hope for a turnaround.

Online giant Tencent, the league’s exclusive streaming partner in the country, resumed live streaming NBA pre-season games on Monday, just days after it suspended streaming of exhibition games between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets.

But it’s not yet business as usual for the NBA in China. 

Tencent has scheduled the majority of the pre-season games to be streamed in…

Hong Kong police said they would investigate a claim of sexual assault made by a female college student arrested during anti-government protests. 

The woman, Sonia Ng, revealed the allegation and her identity on Thursday night during a town hall-style meeting with the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she is an undergraduate studying early childhood education.

Ng, who was arrested in August, was the first protester to waive her anonymity in order to accuse the Hong Kong…

Late last month, Jiayang Fan, a Chinese-American journalist, was harassed and interrogated by some demonstrators after she spoke Mandarin while covering the anti-government protests in Hong Kong.

Derogatory insults and accusations like “yellow thug” and “commie agent” were thrown at her.

“My Chinese face is a liability,” she tweeted, “just got asked if I’m from the US and am a reporter why I have Chinese face.”

On September 18, the 88th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of northeastern…

It’s been a tough week for NBA fans in China, who feel torn between their favorite sport and expressing loyalty to their country.

Days before Thursday night’s pre-season game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets in Shanghai, many were worried the game wouldn’t happen at all. 

But despite online calls for a boycott, the fans showed up, filling up the 18,000 seater Mercedes-Benz Arena, even if they were feeling emotionally conflicted about being there. 

Just watching the game…

Washington’s flood of ill will toward Beijing may be spilling onto America’s streets, according to pundits and policymakers measuring the impact of a Twitter post that sparked the National Basketball Association’s China crisis.

The now-deleted tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting Hong Kong protests has elevated the topic of China’s censorship among Americans in a bigger way than President Donald Trump’s trade war has highlighted trade imbalances, copyright violations…

China is a big, lucrative market with 1.4 billion potential consumers. But it’s also a notoriously competitive place where many foreign companies – including Amazon, Uber and Best Buy – have failed.

Still, some enterprising foreigners have managed to become rich and successful in the country.

Five of them even made it onto the annual Hurun China Rich List, which has been ranking the country’s wealthiest people since 1999. 

Here are their stories, in ascending order from rich to super rich: 

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Tipped as a front runner for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Can Xue is one of a handful of Chinese avant-garde writers who have wowed international critics with their inventiveness.

Susan Sontag was said to consider Can Xue the one Chinese writer worthy of the Nobel Prize.

On Thursday, the Swedish Committee announced that the 2018 and 2019 prizes went to Peter Handke of Austria and the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk.

Ahead of the announcement, Can Xue said that it wasn't her time yet for the…

Apple has come under fire in China after approving an app that allows protesters to report and monitor police movement in Hong Kong.

The People’s Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, on Tuesday published a commentary that ridicules the iPhone maker for protecting “rioters” in Hong Kong by making the HKmap.live software available on its app store.

Does Apple “not worry about damaging its reputation and hurting the feelings of consumers?” the article reads.

The criticism puts…

On Saturday, Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, flanked by 14 wooden-faced officials, condemned the violence and destruction during what she described as a “very dark night.”

In an episode of savage protest the night before, mobs had smashed, clubbed and burned their way across the city. The violence occurred after the government brought emergency regulations into effect in order to ban face masks.

Violence is now a constant in the Hong Kong protests. Mass demonstrations, once peaceful, used to…