A Chinese and a Taiwanese comedian walk into a bar ...
Taiwanese comedian Vickie Wang and Chinese comedian Jamie Wang work through the lived experience of cross-strait tensions through comedy.
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German government wants companies to 'de-risk' from China, but business is reluctant
Tough new rhetoric on China from some members of Germany's governing coalition has led to disagreement rather than unity on what the government's policy should be.
They flocked to build China's cities. Now builders are aging with little retirement
A booming migrant workforce helped propel China's growth in the past four decades. Now those workers are approaching retirement age and straining local governments and social services.
Affluent Chinese have been moving to Japan since the COVID lockdowns
Middle- and upper-class Chinese are joining a migration wave to Japan.
China's millennial and Gen Z workers are having to lower their economic expectations
Their parents saw decades of significant economic expansion. But today, China's young workforce faces the prospects of slower economic growth.
Taiwan's election was a vote for continuity, but adds uncertainty in ties with China
Taiwan's vice president and candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Ching-te, will be the island's next leader. Tensions with Beijing seem poised to rise.
Taiwan's China-skeptic ruling-party candidate wins presidential election
Lai Ching-te of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party is Taiwan's new president-elect, after a three-way election that will determine the self-ruled island's future stance towards China.
As China looms large, two opposing visions face off in Taiwan's election
The two parties that have historically dominated Taiwanese electoral politics are trying to sell voters their visions of the island's future – starting with the issue of China.
Taiwan deals with lots of misinformation, and it's harder to track down
As Taiwan heads to an election, false information on social media has been picked up by TV networks — much of it appearing to originate from Taiwan itself.
China launches a satellite over Taiwan, days before island's election
China routinely ramps up its intimidation toward Taiwan before any elections because Beijing claims it has control over the self-ruling Asian island.