South China Morning Post

An American skier has decided to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, prompting a wave of cheering on Chinese social media.

Eileen Gu, 15, changed her national affiliation from American to Chinese this month, according to the International Ski Federation.

While the Olympics allow athletes with dual citizenship to choose which country to represent, Gu is required by Chinese law not to keep her American nationality because China doesn’t recognize dual nationality.

“I feel…

Taiwanese actress and supermodel Lin Chi-ling has become the talk of the Chinese internet after announcing her marriage to Akira, a Japanese singer and actor.

“I’m married. I feel so blessed to have your support,” the 44-year-old actress wrote on China’s Twitter-like Weibo on Thursday night.

Lin met Akira, 37, during the production of a Japanese stage adaptation of the film Red Cliff, a period drama film set in ancient China starring the actress.

News of Lin’s marriage prompted a deluge of…

A Chinese official posed a question last week that would resonate among his fellow cadres: as China rises, why are we not making more friends and why are our voices not heard?

The question has gained weight as the trade war with the United States has deepened, and Chinese officials have scrambled to win the battle of public opinion at home and abroad.

It also came to the fore at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore on the weekend, when Chinese officials were faced with…

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been ridiculed for saying China is ahead of the United States in green technology.

The Democratic senator running in the 2020 election tweeted that China “leads on electric vehicles and renewable energy, while Trump says climate change is a hoax.”

China, with one-third our per capita income, leads on electric vehicles and renewable energy, while Trump says climate change is a hoax.

A Green New Deal would invest in building our electric buses, trains…

In a boxing ring in northwestern China last month, controversial mixed martial arts fighter Xu Xiaodong found himself up against a kung fu master who professed the ability to paralyze an opponent with the jab of his finger.

This mystical technique is sometimes called the “death touch.” But on May 18, touch was probably the last thing the kung fu master Lu Gang wanted.

Xu landed punch after punch to his face. Forty seconds and one broken nose later, the fight was over.

Over the past two…

A longstanding rule limiting the number of women in police colleges has triggered an intense debate on Chinese social media about a woman’s ability to work in law enforcement.

A recruitment notice from the Shandong Police College, posted on China’s Twitter-like Weibo on Tuesday, says it is looking to admit 1,300 students, but the number of female students should not exceed 15%.

Many Chinese police colleges have held the 15% cap on female recruits, citing the high risks and heavy workload…

At an internal meeting at the Chinese car-hailing giant Didi last year, the questions came thick and fast – as if a steam cooker had just blown its lid.

“Have we foregone safety to pursue scale and rapid growth?” asked an employee. “Do we just care about what our investors think?” asked another. “Have we simply paid lip service to ‘safety first’?”

Didi’s 36-year-old co-founder and chief executive Cheng Wei and president Jean Liu acknowledged the concerns, according to people familiar with the…

As academia becomes the newest battleground in the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China, scholars have raised concerns over the cost of distrust on the American education system.

Beijing on Monday warned Chinese students who wish to study in the US of increased visa denials as tensions mount over trade and technology.

“This is the next iteration of where this is going as it moves from the economy and security to people-to-people,” said Jude Blanchette, a senior adviser…

China launched a rocket into space from a civilian cargo ship on Wednesday, in its first rocket launch at sea.

In doing so, China has also become the first nation to fully own and operate a floating sea launch platform, which could significantly reduce the cost and risk of space missions.

One of China’s Long March 11 rockets, named “CZ-11 WEY,” blasted off from the ship in the Yellow Sea at noon Beijing time. About six minutes later, five commercial satellites and a pair of “technical…

A Chinese entrepreneur made a record bid to have lunch with Warren Buffett, hoping to woo the American billionaire and Bitcoin skeptic.

Justin Sun, the founder of a cryptocurrency platform called Tron, said Tuesday that he won a charity auction to lunch with Buffett with his $4.57 million bid.

I officially announce I’ve won the record-setting 20th-anniversary charity lunch hosted by @WarrenBuffett. I’ll also invite #blockchain industry leaders to meet with a titan of investment. I hope this…