Travel: A cross-cultural dive into Hani traditions in Yunnan – The China Project
There are at least 25 ethnic minority groups in Yunnan Province, including 16 that are indigenous to the region. One of those is the Hani, whose people — as our author learns in her trek through a traditional village — are constantly striving to balance traditions with modern living.
The anti-COVID lockdown protests: The view from Beijing – The China Project
I think one of the reasons is that everyone knows that there’s a problem to be solved here. I think a lot of people were thinking, “Well, now wait a minute. There’s a lot of things we’re upset about and there’s a lot of aspects of the quarantines and lockdowns that we would like to be, at least modified, if not canceled, but we have a big problem to solve here, which is this virus.” And this is something that the government has got to take charge of, and we have got to participate in it. And this is not the time for a full-fledged revolution where the police, the resources of the government are wasted on things like crowd control and the people on the street will only exacerbate the infectious rate. And so, I think a lot of people, there was a kind of a sensible, immediate pullback, is the way I felt for people I was talking to.
They’ve already relaxed restrictions on foreigners coming into China. For example, the business visa processing and application process took only a few days. It used to take two months to get a business visa, and an approval letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Also, the quarantine time: One year ago, it was 14 days in a quarantine hotel. Now it is 10 days, and will likely be reduced again. In my view, by springtime next year, they will further relax COVID controls.
Taiwanese artist Pan Chunling draws the minutiae of life – The China Project
Whether it’s a street vendor grilling sausages, a cyclist biking through a narrow alleyway, or an old man waiting his turn in front of a packed barbershop—these quotidians scenes we come across are often quickly forgotten, replaced in our short-term memory by more important matters. However, these seemingly trivial moments are what gives a city its vivacity, and they’re the moments that Pan chooses to highlight in her work.
China is building gigantic wind turbines, but are they too cheap? – The China Project
The largest wind turbine in the world rolled off the production lines on November 23 at the Fujian Three Gorges Offshore Wind Power International Industrial Park, according to Chinese media reports. The 16-megawatt (MW) GWH252 offshore wind turbine will be erected off Fujian Province in the Taiwan Strait, and it’s indeed fantastically large: …
Geopolitical tensions key consideration for future China-UK relations - OMFIF
… In view of the tensions between Britain’s global ambitions and geopolitical and economic realities, there was criticism at the conference (from the UK side) of Britain’s ‘s incoherence’ as it sought to lay down a sensible policy on China. …
At the 22 November seminar there was talk (on the British side) of the UK government taking protectionist measures under the guise of security considerations.
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