The Apple iPhone 14 during an event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on September 7, 2022. Apple is once again seeing high demand for its latest handsets in China, where it makes up nearly half of the premium smartphone segment. Photo: Bloomberg South China Morning Post
Advertisement After letting it lie dormant for several decades, the Hong Kong government, as part of the current crackdown on the opposition, has dusted off a sedition law under the local crimes ordinance to apply in numerous prosecutions. Public advocacy that had previously passed as legal public protests and critical debate has now been branded sedition. This narrowed public sphere in Hong Kong should be of concern to anyone dealing with the formerly vibrant city. In the parade of sedition prosecutions, a recent case involving a children’s book about sheep…
Li Yifeng, also known as Evan Li, is a household name and hugely popular in China, with 60 million followers on the country’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo platform. He has been in the public eye since 2007, when he participated in a national TV talent contest. BBC
The rise of China has been the biggest story in the global economy in recent decades. But amid concern about its stumbling property market and global fears about inflation, the emergence of its neighbour, India, as a potential new economic superpower may be going under the radar. You won’t find mention of it in Liz Truss’s blueprint for a “modern brilliant Britain”, but the UK has just been overtaken by India as the world’s fifth biggest economy. The nation of 1.4 billion people is on track to move into third…
Chinese censors have reportedly been ordered to flood social media with innocuous posts about Xinjiang to drown out mounting complaints of food and medication shortages in a region under lockdown for more than a month. The Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture, also known as Yili, is home to about 4.5 million people, and is believed to have been first put into lockdown in early August, without official public announcement, after an outbreak of Covid-19. In recent days social media has hosted reams of post about food shortages, delays or refusals of…