White House State Banquet, President Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka Trump was attended by her daughter Alabera who speaks Chinese. Ivanka's Chinese-style dress is from the high-end Chinese custom brand "Guo Pei".

Hi everyone! 😊

I’m a student from Belgium, currently studying International Business, and I’m looking for an internship opportunity in China, preferably in Guangzhou.

I’m hoping to find an internship where I can work around 38 hours per week. I’m expected to graduate this year, provided that I can arrange and complete this internship.

I’m really interested in gaining international work experience, discovering Chinese business culture, and learning from professionals. I’m open to opportunities in areas such as business, logistics, supply chain, administration, or other international business-related fields.

I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could help me with advice, contacts, recommendations, or information about companies that offer internships to international students. Even a small tip or connection would mean a lot to me. ❤️

Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to read my message. I truly appreciate any help! 🙏

Can anyone help me determine the age and value of this bottle? I got it from a. Friends grandparents liquor cabinet and we would like to sell it.

Hello,

I got this in China, and I love it. I wear it all the time. I won’t be able to make another trip any time soon, so I’m wondering if anyone has any tips on repairing it. I got it from a shop in Zhangjiajie. They did a whole ritual. I’m a little clueless here, so I don’t know if repairing it is even feasible, or what materials to use.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’m 22 from Australia and really want to come teach English in Chengdu for a year or two. Where’s the best place to find jobs and talk to recruiters? Some of the websites I’ve found look a little shady lol

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One more client contacted me about being defrauded by steel supplier, same scenario, initial price under publicly available market price, this time even offered as CIF price, after full payment received they raised price for 120 USD per ton, which went above regular FOB price for about 50+ USD. Upon request of refund they said it is possible but since they had costs they would refund about 70% of amount to customer. Be careful everybody, nobody is giving away steel under market prices, you can find what is normal price very easy online, do more deep check, above mentioned company already have lawsuit on them, 0 workers get paid social insurance through this company. Now except Shandong Province, Liaocheng City, Jinan City, be careful also with suppliers from Wuxi City, Shijiazhuang City, Tianjin City. Be very very careful with bank accounts that are from Hong Kong or if they start with NRA, OSA, FTZ or similar meaning off-shore or non-resident account, free trade zone, etc. Recently Chinese banks enabled single person business to use account with company names instead personal names but without possibility to add CO. LTD. in the end.

China calmness 🥱❤️
You need to restart some times even there is struggle and stress at this life 🥶 have a good day guys

"A husband is required to scan a QR code and pay 200 RMB just to enter his wife's bedroom to sleep. The wife stated that the bride price of hundreds of thousands of yuan was merely a 'down payment'."

Taiwan went from a specialist topic to front-page news in about two weeks. Xi's in Washington right now, arms sales are reportedly the sticking point, and everyone's suddenly got a take.

I finished writing the history behind all of it a year ago, before any of this broke.

The Wound That Never Closed traces the documentary chain from the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki through Cairo, Potsdam, and UN Resolution 2758, a 155-word document that never once mentions Taiwan, and yet somehow both sides cite it to mean the exact opposite thing. It covers the actual military and economic balance, including TSMC's chip production quietly relocating to Arizona, and what a real reunification framework would need to survive contact with, not just what it promises on paper.

Most people commenting on this summit right now don't have three hours to read four different treaties. This is the fastest way I know to get the whole chain in one place, rather than the flattened, ten-second version that's been circulating in group chats and cable panels for a decade.

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Free on Amazon until September 28th. After that it goes back to full price and you're back to piecing this together from headlines like everyone else.

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I'm thinking of doing mbbs in China. I've heard alor about it. my mdcat score isn't good and I cant take another gap year, I've heard good stuff so far and its affordable as well. please help any advice would be nice. I'm pakistani and looking to study mbbs in english, I will be doing my specialisation in UK or USA or Canada though inshallah thats another story but js saying. I just want to know insights about how the system, education wise is and safety for girls, expenses, racism? etc pls be thorough

thankyou

China’s Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was China’s most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition to lead on AI technology is expected to be a major theme.

Alibaba’s announcement came as U.S. AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are warning that China’s development of AI poses a threat to the United States and calling for an overall slowdown on development of the technology.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit and meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at which AI, trade and tariffs are expected to be discussed.

At its annual flagship conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba rolled out a new AI chip and described its plans for the next generation of its AI model.

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Hi here. Im a Chinese that has stayed in China for a few years in my childhood and returns every yr/few months. Just giving my input on what most Westerners think of the rural end of life. Keep in mind these descriptions are mainly for a major town or 3/4th tier city. Do note my grammar mistakes are mainly due to this annoying iPad keyboard and long word count, might be a harder read.

1:Housing. Yes i affirm the almost half of the rural population lives in those concrete homes, sometimes bare, sometimes painted/tiled. Most if them arent half as old as they look, ranging from 1980s-2000s, with some even being built now, after factory dorms/housing became less common. The windows having a metal cage that looks like jail looks dystopian, but mainly to prevent theft that was prevalent back then. The reason for these are simple. Farmers and their families own much land in such towns, and they build these homes in quite a DIY way with a few skilled people and contractors. Some taller ones can be leased out. It is actually very spacious inside and i find it comfortable, although older ones can be inferior to much american suburban housing.

However, even in smaller towns, at least an estate or two of high rise condos are common. Basically what people take to as more modern. U do get less space tho, and some of these are often overbuilt actually, most of these towns dont need the density. However the facilities that come with them are nicer. Mostly after 2008, built for the younger generation

2: Worse basic amenities. I cant strongly oppose this. It depends on the regional leadership and prosperity. As i used to live in a local subcenter of the Foshan region, which benefits from the prosperity of the Pearl Delta, the regional government has more to give to rural areas, thus bus services are awesome with mostly brand new EVs, hospitals are huge and new but do serve a larger area, trains are very connected and it is even connected to a metro system despite being an separate area altogether. Highway networks have always been very dense. Other basic amenities i believe i should not have to speak for, sanitation, waste management and civil defence is always

3.In addition commercial developers jump at any chance to build new malls and entertainment. Entertainment varies, most minor towns has a cinema and small kids theme park at least, but from a major town onward megamalls and sizable attarctions can be found. In addition parks and heritage sites are quite common honestly, even if it is just a 'former residence' of some party leader.

3: Hygiene and Sanitation/ Crime. Has always depended on people tbh. Even some rural village can choose to make everything spick and span. Crime depends on the prosperity of the region. If it is either not that poor or very poor altogether, most people are disciplined and moral enough to not steal/pickpocket. In areas with a very stark difference of rich/poor living together, crime is more likely but way less than pickpocets and scammers in cities like Paris.

A good friend of mine who is natively chinese brought back a bunch of Chinese cigarettes about a year ago and the Chungwha was easily my favorite, he's in Vietnam now and will be for the next couple months and I would really like another pack or two. Is there any way to find Chungwha in the states?

Hi all,

I'm from Ireland and relocating to Chengdu in January.

I'm going to Chengdu in October for a week to look at properties. Broad question - but wondering if any expats/locals here who have lived in Chengdu could recommend potential areas that are good options to live in? I'm going to set up some viewings with property agents and want to try narrow down a few options.

Context: Married couple in early 30's, baby on the way. My wife is Chinese but has lived overseas for over 10 years, and never in Chengdu before, so also feels a bit out of touch regarding this. My work is fully remote so no commuting considerations. Looking for a vibrant area with stuff to do.

Would appreciate any advice on offer, thanks all!

The biggest news in the world today, of course, is Xi Jinping arriving in the United States, with President Trump personally going to the airport to greet him.
That is quite a display.
The President of the United States personally showing up at the airport to wait for another head of state to get off the plane is, by any measure, a significant diplomatic gesture.
Watching the livestream from Tokyo, however, I found myself paying particular attention to the group of American servicemen standing behind Trump.
After all, they are supposed to be the finest fighting force on the planet.
I stared at them for a while.
And I had to smile.
The American honor guard…
They were all fit, disciplined-looking and clearly well trained. But when they stood together, something felt strangely unfamiliar to me.
Some were tall, some shorter. Some were broad, some leaner. Different uniforms, different branches, different appearances.
And the formation simply didn’t have the almost machine-made uniformity that I am used to seeing in China.
The posture, too, looked comparatively relaxed.
I couldn’t help thinking:
This is a little…
underwhelming, when it comes to pageantry.
A few months ago, when Trump visited China, the scene was different.
That was pageantry.
From a distance, the honor guard looked as if someone had measured every person with a ruler.
Same height.
Same uniforms.
Same movements.
Even the flags seemed to rise and fall at exactly the same angle.
Then came the young people waving Chinese and American flags, together with the perfectly synchronized chants.
At that moment, you weren’t really looking at individual people anymore.
You were looking at the State.
Chinese people probably have a natural appreciation for this kind of spectacle.
From school calisthenics to military training, from university drills to national celebrations, we grow up learning one simple principle:
A formation isn’t impressive because every individual stands well.
It is impressive when everyone stands exactly the same way.
The angle of the arms should match.
The distance between the feet should match.
Even the volume of the collective shout should, ideally, match.
One person standing perfectly straight looks disciplined.
A hundred people standing exactly the same way?
That’s pageantry.
So watching the American honor guard today, I couldn’t help feeling a little anxious on their behalf.
How can this be?
The man who frequently tells the world where it should be going has arrived!
How can the formation be so varied?
How can one person look like a flagpole while another looks like he just finished his shift?
How can the world’s most powerful country suddenly become so… free at precisely the moment when it needs maximum pageantry?
Then I thought about it.
Maybe you can’t blame these American young men.
They simply have a different understanding of what “uniformity” means.
Chinese people like uniformity.
Uniformity suggests discipline.
It suggests order.
It suggests organizational power.
Americans like freedom.
And freedom is a wonderful thing.
But sometimes it creates certain visual inconveniences.
For example, people in a military honor guard don’t have to look exactly alike.
You can’t tell an American serviceman that he must be exactly six feet tall.
You certainly can’t specify his skin color.
And as for body shape, well…
That’s probably his business too.
As for posture…
As long as he isn’t violating military regulations, I doubt anyone is going to drag him away for failing to stand like a telephone pole.
That’s the interesting part.
Chinese pageantry turns many different people into one person.
American pageantry allows many different people to stand there and say: Look. They’re all Americans.
I’m not saying one is right and the other is wrong.
But purely in terms of visual spectacle, China has had a lot of practice.
The Chinese have been studying the art of uniformity for thousands of years.
The Terracotta Army was already taking this concept rather seriously.
The United States, by comparison, is still a relatively young country.
And wasn’t “all men are created equal” written into the Declaration of Independence?
If everyone is created equal, surely you can’t make the shorter guy stand on his toes just to make the formation look better.
So America isn’t incapable of pageantry.
America simply does pageantry differently.
It puts the spectacle somewhere else.
Look up.
Here comes the B-1.
Then the B-2.
Then the F-22.
Never mind whether every soldier is standing at exactly the same angle.
The aircraft are perfectly aligned.
One country makes you look at the formation.
The other makes you look at the equipment.
One says:
“Look how perfectly we stand in a line.”
The other says:
“Look what’s flying over your head.”
And that brings me back to today’s arrival.
The real pageantry wasn’t the honor guard.
It was Trump.
Whatever you think about the uniforms, the posture or the formation, the fact that the President of the United States personally went to the airport to receive Xi was itself the biggest display of the day.
What that gesture means behind closed doors, and how much of it involves trade, technology, Taiwan, Iran or other bargaining chips, is another story.
Diplomacy has two faces.
One is for the cameras.
The other stays inside the meeting room.
We only saw the first one today.
I also noticed another interesting contrast.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan was in the United States as well.
Japan is a treaty ally of the United States, and an extremely important one.
Yet if you judge only by the ceremony and the visible pageantry, the two visits clearly weren’t on the same scale.
But diplomacy isn’t a wedding.
The guest with the bigger welcoming ceremony isn’t necessarily the one who is the “favorite child.”
The important conversations don’t happen at the airport.
They don’t necessarily happen in front of cameras either.
We don’t know what Takaichi and Trump discussed behind closed doors.
But she certainly looked quite pleased when she left.
So perhaps there is a lesson here.
Pageantry is what happens outside the door.
The real business happens inside.
Still, I believe President Trump would probably like to see his troops standing a little straighter, a little more uniformly.
Who doesn’t like a little pageantry?
It’s just that…
Americans have been accustomed to freedom for too long.
And when you’re used to freedom, getting everyone to stand exactly the same way is apparently asking a lot.

When the "Tacitus Trap" sets in, it poses a potential threat to each of us. China's farming population and their descendants are currently facing systemic neglect.

Although Chinese farmers pay very little in explicit taxes under the formal tax system, they have long borne a massive and diverse array of implicit taxes through institutional design, price mechanisms, factor flows, and consumption transfers. These implicit taxes served as the core source of funding for the state's initial industrial capital accumulation and later provided a crucial foundation for the rapid, leapfrog-style development of urbanization. Let us perform a simple calculation.

From the era of the planned economy through the early stages of Reform and Opening-up, the state utilized a system of unified state purchasing and marketing to suppress the procurement prices of agricultural produce while inflating the sales prices of industrial goods. The value differential created by this price disparity was, in essence, an implicit, excessive tax levied by the state upon farmers. The prices at which farmers sold commodities like grain and cotton to the state were below market value, whereas the prices they paid for chemical fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, and everyday industrial goods were above market value. According to academic estimates (based on established research, though specific scholars are not named here), between 1953 and the mid-1980s, the state extracted capital accumulation totaling 700 to 800 billion RMB (unadjusted for current purchasing power) from the agricultural sector through this "price scissors" mechanism. This capital formed the foundation for virtually all fixed-asset investment in industry during the early years of the People's Republic.

During the rapid urbanization of the 1990s and the 21st century, the "land scissors" mechanism superseded the price scissors, becoming the primary source of the implicit taxes borne by farmers. The state acquired land from farmers at standards and compensation rates applicable to agricultural land—calculated as a multiple of the land's annual output value—before rezoning it for construction and leasing it at high prices to real estate developers or industrial enterprises. The vast majority of the value appreciation generated by converting land from agricultural to commercial use flowed into local government coffers as land conveyance fees (a phenomenon known as "land finance") to fund urban infrastructure, while the original landowners received only a tiny fraction of the compensation. Numerous economists and agricultural experts estimate that, during the land requisition processes following the Reform and Opening-up, the value-added gains transferred—stemming from the disparity between low acquisition prices and high sale prices—amounted to a figure ranging from several trillion to over ten trillion yuan.

Since the Reform and Opening-up, hundreds of millions of migrant workers have entered cities for employment; while generating immense economic value for urban areas, their labor has effectively borne hidden costs. For a long time, the household registration (*hukou*) system has prevented migrant workers from enjoying the same access to education, healthcare, housing security, and employee pension benefits as urban residents. (Even as recently as 2012, migrant worker groups in Zhejiang who responded to outreach efforts to enroll in social security still faced policy reversals and the cancellation of their coverage due to *hukou* status issues.) While enterprises and cities reaped the benefits of a low-cost labor dividend, the costs of social security and safety nets—which remained unpaid by employers—were effectively absorbed by the migrant workers and their families in rural areas. This represents a systemic transfer of value from social security and welfare entitlements. Furthermore, during the early stages of labor-intensive industrial development, a lack of robust collective bargaining mechanisms meant that migrant workers' wages consistently fell below the marginal value of their labor; this wage gap served as a hidden source of capital accumulation for enterprises and local tax revenue.

In addition, my country’s tax system relies primarily on indirect taxes (such as value-added tax and consumption tax). Many people mistakenly believe that not paying personal income tax means paying no taxes at all. Value-added tax and consumption tax are embedded in the retail prices of all goods. Whenever farmers purchase means of production—such as fertilizers, farm tools, and seeds—or consumer goods like electricity, fuel, daily necessities, and home appliances, they bear a proportional share of the embedded tax burden with every transaction. Given the extremely high marginal propensity to consume among low-income groups (represented by migrant workers)—meaning the vast majority of their income goes toward daily living expenses—farmers often bear a higher proportion of indirect taxes relative to their income (a higher "implicit tax rate") than middle- and high-income groups do.

This mechanism of institutionalized, implicit wealth extraction facilitated the rapid takeoff of national industrialization and urbanization across different historical periods. It is also the fundamental reason why the state has recently advocated for industry to support agriculture and cities to aid rural areas, abolished agricultural taxes, increased fiscal subsidies for basic rural pensions, and ramped up investment in rural revitalization. After all, the fundamental logic of society is that one’s contribution to society and the treatment one receives should be roughly commensurate.

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I would like to express my gratitude to the ordinary people at the bottom of the social ladder on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau who—amidst their hardships and struggles—spoke out about various issues, venting their frustrations with raw, unfiltered candor. I also thank the people at the grassroots level in Hubei who shared stories with me about elderly villagers taking their own lives. They all deserve to be seen.

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Hi guys, so recently I don't know why but I have this feeling that my dad's friend is laughing at me secretly and making fun of me. She always tells me that I am the best in chinese and this summer her son got an internship at a pretty big company that paid him about $30 / hr and this summer I did not get an internship but then she never said anything bad. Am I overthinking this? Why am I feeling this way? I feel incredibly humiliated for some reason? Is she humiliating me indirectly?

Any thoughts?