This is very sad.
David Webb’s collection of data has been a treasure trove for journalists and HongKongers alike.
Thank you, Mr Webb, for all your hard work.
Godspeed!
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Hopefully by the time the 2034 World Cup comes round, the message it’s not okay to grope visiting supporters will have been heard. What a grim story.
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Behind all the excitement of these TikTok escapees discovering Little Red, Chinese censors must be having kittens.
Chinese public have a lifetime of inate self-censorship, ease to fit XHS's ToS. "Free speech" American kids? Not so much~
🔮Surely many bans coming~ 🔮
Happy 2025! I started a Substack. Here's my first post: open.substack.com/pub/chinaspo...
Happy 2025! I started a Substack. Here's my first post: open.substack.com/pub/chinaspo...
This SCMP editorial on a "fresh start" for Chinese football feels like it's straight out of the Xinhua library. Utter tripe. www.scmp.com/opinion/comm...
They've played .575 hockey in the past 20 games, but even if they continue that for the rest of the season, their poor start means they'll still fall short of the playoffs - even though they might genuinely be a "playoff" team, were it not for Laine's injury.
Even just a few points higher would mean that being "in the mix" would be a reality, rather than a hope (as it is now) - and then could then learn those lessons on the fly.
So are you saying they would or would not be higher up the standings if Laine had stayed healthy?
(SCMP headline) Editorial | Real Madrid event needs to be a lesson learned • The disappointment of some football fans over a ‘meet-and-greet’ comes less than a year after Lionel Messi failed to play in an exhibition game
The lesson being Hong Kong is horrible at organizing exhibition football
Feels like this could have been written at any time in the last, say, eight years? I remember one finance expert keen to play down her own (excellent) dataset at least as far back as 2017.
Among his more 'provocative' works is the 2018 paper "Thinking with Birds: Ornithology and Indigeneity in Taiwan."
Wang Jianlin (Atletico Madrid)
Zhang Jindong (Inter Milan)
Guo Guangchang (@Wolves)
Dai Yongge (@ReadingFC)
All bought European clubs between 2015-2018
What else do they have in common?
They all sat on the National Committee of the CPPCC - which coordinates the UFWD
#China #football #influence
Four typos in four sentences for this BBC homepage piece on Vanuatu's earthquake. It's clear the editors were laid off there years ago, but what about Grammarly? AI? Or even a read through??
Are you coming to China for any of your research on this?
@lefisch.bsky.social
A 20-year prison sentence was handed down to former Everton and China player and national team coach Li Tie today - "short" according to what he could have received for admitting bribery charges of more than $10m. Sad end to a truly groundbreaking career.
Qi Jun, former director of the strategic planning dept of the CFA, who was also team leader of the men's national team during the 2022 World Cup qualification campaign, was sentenced to 7 years today.
Speculation in Chinese media that Li Tie's verdict could come as early as this week...
That, and the fact that "Hong Kong" was the reason why the NBA hasn't played games in China since 2019. No point in giving the critics - and there will still be plenty critical of this move - the neat and tidy "full circle" ironic headline.
Multiple straight minutes of Chinese Olympians applauding their president (rather than the other way around) if I'm not mistaken!
CCTV absolutely does!
Yes! The article mentions the teams were in China at the time, but it all, of course, kicked off in Japan *before* they even landed in China, which just served to stretch out the whole painful, week-long episode.
NBA games are returning to China next October - six years since a single tweet derailed the league there. Covered this a LOT in my book, as all my worlds - comms, sports, China, US-China - collided. Expect plenty more rhetoric next year... apnews.com/article/nba-...
This is explosive. Summary:
-WADA's investigation unit tells WADA that Chinese athletes are likely/historically taking trace amounts of TMZ.
-WADA then learns Chinese athletes tested positive for trace amounts of TMZ.
-But WADA does not inform its own investigation unit
WADA --> not fit for purpose
But then left when the business case for the programs didn't add up. We did some good stuff though - it was just a shame it was never seen by the intended audience!
The story we were told was that various people on the ATV board were suing each other for control of the company - and we were basically a victim of that chaos and subsequent fallout. Most of the team were later let go. I stayed on for another 18 months or so as Caixin tried to make a go at video.
So Caixin staffed up for a video team. We were supposed to be producing up to 9 China/economy-related programs, which would then air on ATV, but it never really got off the ground. I guess the deal must have been fairly well advanced otherwise they wouldn't have hired all of us.
But then left when the business case for the programs didn't add up. We did some good stuff though - it was just a shame it was never seen by the intended audience!
The story we were told was that various people on the ATV board were suing each other for control of the company - and we were basically a victim of that chaos and subsequent fallout. Most of the team were later let go. I stayed on for another 18 months or so as Caixin tried to make a go at video.
