South China Morning Post

The Chinese owner of Grindr has been forced to sell the gay dating app by June next year over American national security fears.

United States officials raised concerns over the ownership of the app, which collects the personal data of millions of users, including their sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV status.

The app’s owner, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co, said on Monday that it had reached a deal with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) to sell the app before June 30,…

China’s powerful central planning agency quietly had its remit ­expanded last month to govern whether ­foreign investments in the country threaten ­national security.

Experts say that the new powers, together with a new article in China’s foreign investment law, enable Beijing to make strong legal cases against American firms investing in the country amid an escalating US-China trade war.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission is now charged with reviewing foreign investments to…

Students at some of China’s top universities are selling their eggs for up to $14,600 each, cashing in on high demand from couples who cannot have children.

Academic performance, height and looks were the three most valued characteristics, and donors that possessed these traits were able to charge a premium, according to a newspaper investigation.

In the case of “ordinary” donors, the price could be as little as $1,400 – but some young women were still willing to go through with the deal so…

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly that China, not the United States, will bear the cost of US tariffs on Chinese imports.

But in an acknowledgment of reality, Trump’s chief economic adviser has said that “both sides will pay” as Chinese goods are charged extra duties when they enter the US.

Economists have long argued that no one wins in a trade war, and US retailers have warned time after time that Americans will foot the bill of the US-China trade war.

But while what adviser…

China has many options for retaliating against the United States and is likely to implement sanctions that go beyond tariffs on trade in goods, a former top government official has said.

“China will not only act as a kung fu master in response to US tricks, but also as an experienced boxer and can deliver a deadly punch at the end,” Wei Jianguo, a former vice-minister at the Ministry of Commerce responsible for foreign trade, told the South China Morning Post.

Beijing is considering how it…

CBS has been accused of pandering to Beijing after it pulled an animated segment from legal drama The Good Fight that criticized censorship in China.

The irony was not lost on the network’s critics. But despite CBS’ self-censorship, the show is being erased from the Chinese internet after it depicted China’s mass internment of a Muslim minority in the western region of Xinjiang.

The popular online movie database Douban has delisted the latest season of the show and shut down an accompanying…

China’s retaliation will kill off US exports to the world’s biggest consumer market, American companies fear, after Washington hiked up tariffs on Chinese goods.

The US increased tariffs from 10% to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese goods on Friday, with Beijing saying it “will have no choice but to implement countermeasures.”

Jaime Castaneda, senior vice-president of the US Dairy Council, said much of his industry was already hit with a 25% tariff by China last year, which caused total dairy…

When the Notre Dame Cathedral was burning in Paris last month, some Chinese wasted no time in venting their Schadenfreude online.

According to their logic, the fiery destruction of a cultural symbol beloved by the French was vindication for the burning and looting of Beijing’s Summer Palace by French and British troops in 1860.

In fairness, these jingoistic rants were roundly criticized by many, including China’s heritage and other government bodies, as mean-spirited, misguided and childish.

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When China levied additional tariffs on pork from the United States last year, Zhu Mengzhou, a manager of an imported food distributor in Guangzhou, was one of many traders who stopped buying it.

“Unless the tariffs are adjusted, the cost is too high for us,” Zhu said.

Even as an outbreak of African swine fever threatens to decimate China’s most important meat market, Zhu cannot afford to resume US purchases due to two rounds of trade war tariffs which added a total of 50% to import duties…

“Those more outstanding than you also work harder.”

This is a trendy aspirational phrase in China in the digital era, meant to remind people who do not come from well-to-do families that the only way they can catch up is by working hard.

Had the Stanford University admissions scandal involving, among others, sophomore Zhao “Molly” Yusi not made headlines, she would still be looked up to as living testimony of how diligence alone pays off in the end.

But last week, the fairy tale unraveled.

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