Month: August 2026

The US has proposed a new US$103,265 fee for H-1B visa petitions – a move that could ramp up the cost of hiring skilled foreign workers, with Chinese and Indian professionals particularly hard hit. It comes at a sensitive time for US-China relations, with visas already a long-running source of friction and Beijing stepping up efforts to attract global tech talent as competition intensifies between the world’s two largest economies. The US Department of Homeland Security proposed the additional fee on Monday for every H-1B petition subject to the annual…

The South China Morning Post has launched a major data project diving into President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign. A series accompanying the data project looks at its main conclusion and the story behind the numbers. Updated: 25 Aug, 2026 South China Morning Post

China’s top legislature has reviewed a draft law aimed at combating cross-border corruption as part of Beijing’s latest efforts to expand its anti-graft legal framework beyond borders. On Tuesday, the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law was submitted for its first reading during the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), which runs until Friday. The text of the bill is not yet available to the public. Enacting the law is a vital initiative to complete China’s foreign-related legal framework, protect national interests, promote compliant overseas…

Guo Yanliang, a champion debater who honed his argumentation skills in international contests and on online variety shows, has left one of Europe’s top quantum laboratories to set up his own research group in Beijing. Guo, 33, says he sees scientific research as a debate between different opinions, which made him more compatible with China than Europe. This year, he returned to China to take a position as associate professor at Renmin University of China where he is building an ultracold atom experiment platform. While he has had papers published…