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Economist faces backlash for saying gig work improves welfare: ‘Flexibility is a benefit’

Gig workers routinely complain of difficult working conditions, long hours, and low or unstable pay

The Independent UK · Aug 25

China's netizens rage against professor who said gig work was a type of 'welfare'

A prominent economics professor's remarks on gig work as welfare ignited public anger in China. She argued flexibility offers welfare, contrasting it with regular employment benefits. This controversy highlights deep anxieties over job insecurity in China's cooling economy. Flexible workers, without permanent contracts, are projected to reach 320 million this…

The Economic Times · Aug 24

Olympians Liu and Gu travel very different paths, and China-US relations hang over their stories

Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu have turned the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics into a debate about identity and loyalty for Chinese Americans

The Independent UK · Mar 10

Money, power and the peril of courting Chinese nationalism

Nationalism in China has been invoked for political ends and financial gains, but it is also a destructive force.

Al Jazeera · Mar 2, 2024

China raises stakes in cyberscam crackdown in Myanmar, though loopholes remain

China has intensified a crackdown on online scams operated in border areas of Myanmar

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2023

Chinese law to ban comments that harm China’s ‘feelings’ prompts concern

Legal experts and bloggers say proposed crimes could be used arbitrarily and lead to more censorship

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2023

China Blames Foreigners for Inciting Protests

Analysts say foreigners offering critical comments about the protests or making contacts with protesters could be blamed for instigating, shaping, and guiding the demonstrations.

The News Lens · Dec 2, 2022

On China's internet, only plaudits for the party and Xi

While financial markets judged the outcome of China's Communist Party Congress harshly on Monday, on China's internet the only permitted response has been full-throated support.

Reuters · Oct 24, 2022

Xi’s fiery Taiwan rhetoric raises risk of war in his third term

President Xi Jinping proclaimed on Sunday that Taiwan’s status should be “settled by Chinese people”. Yet he faces a tricky balancing act managing public opinion among China’s 1.4 billion people on an issue that looks set to dominate his third term.

Bangkok Post · Oct 17, 2022

Apple to produce high-end iPhones in India as discontent grows in China over COVID-zero human, economic costs

Apple is to start making iPhone 14s in India, amid growing criticism over the economic and human costs of Beijing's strict COVID-zero policy.

ABC News · Sep 27, 2022