LONDON — Less than 12 hours after Raf Simons unveiled his first codesigned men’s wear collection with Miuccia Prada, the Italian luxury brand is trending on China’s microblogging site Weibo for a whole different reason.Chinese actress Zheng Shuang, who last week appeared in the brand’s Chinese New Year campaign alongside Chung Xia and Cai Xukun…

By Stanley Chao · January 18, 2021I said it after the Tiananmen riots in 1989. And I’m saying it again now, during the worst epidemic the world has seen in more than 100 years.China is back!The numbers don’t lie. Due to a successful COVID-19 containment policy, China has emerged from the pandemic largely unscathed. Consumer…

GENEVA – An independent panel said Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak, and criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an international emergency until Jan. 30.The experts reviewing the global handling of the pandemic, led by former New Zealand…

Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels TIANJIN, China — The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government.The Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing, was sealed and its employees were being tested for the coronavirus, a city…

AdvertisementContinue reading the main story The government is expanding university capacity, but some young people worry that the option will only postpone a crisis stemming from a shortage of well-paying work. A graduation ceremony at Wuhan University in China last June. With the encouragement of the government, many students will go on to graduate school.Credit…Agence…

Tinker, tailor, soldier . . . Zoom spy? The late, great David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, did not pen a novel about the defining geopolitical rivalry of the 21st century, between the US and China. But if he had, he might have modelled one of his inimitable protagonists on Jin Xinjiang, aka Julien Jin, a former China-based executive…

TIANJIN, China — An army of forklifts races to bring in pallet after pallet of medical supplies at a warehouse at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, roughly a half-hour drive from the heart of its namesake city. The heavily wrapped packages, containing masks and other materiel for the war on COVID-19, await shipment abroad.But all this…

HSINCHU, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese troops using tanks, mortars and small arms staged a drill aimed at repelling an attack from China, which has increased its threats to reclaim the island and its own displays of military might. Maj. Gen. Chen Chong-ji said, “No matter what is happening around the Taiwan Strait, our determination to…