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☆ How Chinese Marijuana Operations Cropped Up in Small-Town America
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Maine officials said they seized some 3,400 marijuana plants and 111 pounds of processed marijuana in June at a property in Carmel, Maine, identified as one of many unlicensed marijuana-growing operations in the state run by Chinese networks. Photo: Penobscot County Sheriff’s OfficeCARMEL, Maine—An astronomical electricity bill was the first tipoff that something unusual was going on at a former chicken farm in this town of 3,000 people off Interstate 95. A Massachusetts-registered construction company had bought the 5.5-acre property in 2021. But instead of construction equipment moving in, a new power pole sprang up. Electricity use jumped to nearly $7,000 in December 2022 from $600 a month a year earlier.

Organizations: Office Locations: Maine, Carmel , Maine, Penobscot County, Office CARMEL, Massachusetts

☆ Wu Zunyou, the Face of China’s Covid Controls, Dies at 60
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wu Zunyou became a household name in China during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: China News Service/Imago/Zuma PressWu Zunyou, China’s top epidemiologist, never wanted the spotlight, believing that a successful public-health professional should be “invisible.” His last role, as the face of China’s draconian Covid-19 restrictions, was anything but. In China, the decisions that kept the country in isolation with closed borders and rolling lockdowns for three long years—policies deemed extreme by the global public-health community—were made by the Communist Party leadership. Still, by the time Wu died, on Oct. 27 at the age of 60, he had become the target of much of his countrymen’s anger over China’s pandemic response.

Persons: Wu Zunyou, Wu Organizations: China News, Zuma, Communist Party Locations: China

☆ Antisemitic Comments Increase Across Chinese Social Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli Embassy in Beijing this month. Photo: wu hao/ShutterstockAs war erupts between Israel and Hamas, a wave of antisemitic comments is sweeping through China’s social media. In recent days, searches and mentions involving the phrase “anti-Jew” skyrocketed on the Chinese app WeChat . On news stories about the Middle East turmoil, some comments have ranged from outright threats against Jews to negativity directed at anyone defending Israeli actions in the conflict. Influencers on Chinese social media who identify as Jewish have found themselves trolled by online mobs.

Persons: hao, ” Organizations: Embassy, Hamas Locations: Beijing, China, Israel

☆ Fight to Save a New York Birth Center Tests State Law
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Liyan Qi | Photographs Cindy Schultz For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ NYC’s Migrant Crisis Roils ‘Brooklyn’s Chinatown’ Ahead of Fall Elections
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Liyan Qi | Photographs Mary Inhea Kang For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Madalyn Carter, 15, (left) said she prefers skateboarding and being with her friends on the boardwalk at night. “We just want to have some space and hang out with our friends, without anybody yelling at us,” she said.

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☆ New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Is Under Fire for NYC’s Migrant Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Erin Ailworth | Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Jersey Shore Towns Try to Curb Unruly Teens With Curfews
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Liyan Qi | Photographs Rachel Wisniewski For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ China’s Fertility Rate Dropped Sharply, Study Shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Chinese Investors Warm to Sweetened U.S. Cash-for-Visa Program
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver Dies at 71
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ As China Reopens Borders, Trafficking of Women and Girls Resumes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ China Detains Teenager Who Hugged Soccer Star Messi
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Executive of China-Backed Infrastructure Bank Criticizes It After Quitting
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Liyan Qi | Sha Hua | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ China Faces Uphill Battle as It Tries to Instill ‘Pro-Birth’ Culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Enforcers of China’s One-Child Policy Are Now Cajoling People to Have Three
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ China Confirms Campaign Against Alleged Spying by Foreign Consulting Firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Police have raided corporate offices as part of China’s efforts to shield the country from foreign influence. Photo: Cfoto/Zuma PressChina’s national security agencies have uncovered espionage by local units of foreign consulting companies, according to state media, in the first official confirmation that a nationwide sweep of corporate intelligence and due diligence firms is under way. Police recently raided offices of Capvision across China, alleging the New York-based provider of expert consultations and research paid employees of state-owned companies to leak secrets, China Central Television reported Monday. The rare and detailed disclosure of such investigations came after authorities raided U.S. due diligence firm Mintz Group ’s Beijing office and detained local staff in late March. Police also questioned employees at Bain & Co. ’s office in Shanghai last month.

☆ China Confirms Campaign Against Alleged Spying by Foreign Consulting Companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

China is scrutinizing and pressuring Western management consultants, auditors and others that multinational companies rely on. Photo: Cfoto/Zuma PressChina’s national security agencies have uncovered espionage by local units of foreign consulting companies, according to state media, in the first official confirmation that a nationwide sweep of corporate intelligence and due diligence firms is under way. Police recently raided offices of Capvision across China, alleging the New York-based provider of expert consultations and research paid employees of state-owned companies to leak secrets, China Central Television reported Monday. The rare and detailed disclosure of such investigations came after authorities raided U.S. due diligence firm Mintz Group ’s Beijing office and detained local staff in late March. Police also questioned employees at Bain & Co. ’s office in Shanghai last month.

☆ China Signals Spying Fears Amid Probe of Consulting Firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( James T. Areddy | Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Police have raided corporate offices as part of China’s efforts to shield the country from foreign influence. Photo: Cfoto/Zuma PressChina signaled through state-run media that its national security agencies are engaged in a nationwide investigation into whether the due-diligence industry that has grown up to serve Western businesses in the country has been used for foreign espionage. State broadcaster China Central Television and other official news outlets said that amid Western pressure on China, profit-oriented consulting firms sometimes have a weak awareness of the country’s national security concerns, and had frequently operated at the edge of legality to gather information in sensitive sectors of the military, the defense industry, the economy and finance. CCTV said some consultants in China have caused harm to national security, ultimately becoming accomplices to the West in “spying, buying and extorting state secrets and intelligence.”

☆ China Is Facing a Moment of Truth About Its Low Retirement Age
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ China Sentences the Husband of Woman Found Chained in a Shed
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stills from a video clip from China last year showing a woman in a shed with a chain around her neck. A Chinese court on Friday sentenced the husband of a woman found chained in a shed early last year to nine years for abuse and illegal imprisonment. Five others received sentences in the same case ranging from eight to 13 years for “the abducting and selling of women.”A video clip showing the woman chained by the neck set off nationwide outrage after it started circulating on social media last year. It showed the woman in a thin sweater, a metal chain around her neck in a structure without a door. It ignited soul searching about women’s status in China and exposed a dark history of women being sold into marriages.

☆ Chinese Doctor Who Sounded the Alarm on SARS Dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Military surgeon Jiang Yanyong, who challenged China’s official line about SARS, has died at age 91. Jiang Yanyong , a military surgeon who sounded the alarm on Chinese authorities’ efforts to cover up the extent of a 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, died over the weekend at age 91, according to people close to Dr. Jiang and his family. Unlike Li Wenliang , a Wuhan doctor who was initially punished for circulating an early warning about the spread of Covid-19 before his death from the disease in 2020, Dr. Jiang wasn’t penalized for drawing attention to the impact of SARS in 2003. Both doctors were eventually hailed as folk heroes in state media.

☆ A Fish Bone Stuck In Your Throat? In China, It’s a Medical Specialty
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Yu Yuan, an interior designer from the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, is still bewildered by her encounter with a mandarin fish at the family dinner she hosted in December. Tucking into the fish, braised whole in soy sauce as locals prefer, Ms. Yu felt a small bone catch in her throat. She swallowed mouthfuls of barely chewed rice and bread on her husband’s advice in a bid to dislodge the bone, but that only succeeded in making it stick deeper.

☆ Single Mothers in China Face Fewer Hurdles as Beijing Tries to Boost Births
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Even as China’s Communist Party emphasizes what it calls traditional family values, it has become more accepting of out-of-wedlock births. In the years since China started actively encouraging couples to have more children, birth numbers have continued to drop. In one response, authorities across China are starting to make it less of an obstacle course for unmarried women to have children.

☆ In China, Young Women Become Accidental Symbols of Defiance
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Shen Lu | Liyan Qi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Late on Nov. 27, book editor Cao Zhixin, who was about to turn 26 years old, joined a protest near Beijing’s embassy district with a few of her friends. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision that accidentally made them symbols of the most public display of defiance in a generation—as well as the state’s forceful response. The rally was billed as a vigil for victims of a deadly fire in an apartment building in China’s west that had been under Covid-19 lockdown. Ms. Cao and her friends brought flowers and candles and sang, along with the crowd, the traditional Chinese lament “Farewell.”

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