Foreigners

[Big read] From Egypt to Russia: Chinese men looking overseas for love

Facing steep bride prices and mounting pressures at home, some Chinese men are finding wives abroad. Three men share how marriages with women from Egypt, Indonesia and Russia reshaped their lives. Lianhe Zaobao associate China news editor Sim Tze Wei speaks to the couples about their journeys.

Sim Tze Wei

12 Mar 2026

China’s K visa: A talent magnet in a jobless storm?

China’s announcement of a K visa to attract foreign talents in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields has gotten Chinese youths worried about greater competition for limited jobs. But the impact of the K visia may be overhyped, says academic Ghulam Ali.

Ghulam Ali

08 Oct 2025

Sanseito: Japan’s rising party doesn’t trust America — or China

As embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba deals with the latest defeat in Japan’s upper house election, larger questions remain over the inroads made by conservative parties such as the Sanseito. Japanese academic Shin Kawashima looks at where Japan’s foreign policy and security plans are headed.

Shin Kawashima

13 Aug 2025

[Big read] Building trust is key: How a Singaporean doctor is changing Tsinghua University

Change and reform is never easy, more so when efforts are made by a foreigner. But that is exactly what Singaporean doctor Wong Tien Yin is doing in the medicine faculty at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He speaks to Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Sim Tze Wei about his work, building trust, the “Chinese” way of doing things, and how Singaporean youths are too “comfortable”.

Sim Tze Wei

02 Jan 2025

[Video] #Chinatravel vlogs: Can foreign vloggers change how the West sees China?

Garnering millions of views on social media, #Chinatravel vlogs by foreign creators are presenting an often positive image of China to the world, to the point where some critics say the depictions are verging on propaganda. ThinkChina’s Yi Jina explores the issue.

Yi Jina

27 Sep 2024

Can boosting immigration resolve China’s population crisis?

Lianhe Zaobao Beijing correspondent Sim Tze Wei takes a look at the measures China could take to alleviate its population crisis, such as delaying the retirement age and relaxing immigration policies, and whether they would prove effective.

Sim Tze Wei

12 Sep 2024

Venice Biennale 2024: Troubled worlds on art’s stage

Keong Ruoh Ling decodes the 60th Venice Biennale 2024, seeing it as a framework of understanding the world. The stories of those on the margins — the migrants, the outsider artists, the global south — come together in a patchwork of artworks. In the theatre of the geopolitics of art that is the Venice Biennale, one sees the different acts playing out.

Keong Ruoh Ling

16 Aug 2024

Attacks on foreigners in China could spur anti-Chinese sentiment

Despite the Chinese government labelling them as isolated incidents, cases of foreigners being attacked or detained in China are rising, says Japanese academic Shin Kawashima.

Shin Kawashima

03 Jul 2024

Mutual mistrust: People-to-people exchanges between China and the West seriously impacted

Mutual mistrust and fear between China and foreign countries is mounting, especially amid the self-imposed travel restrictions on both sides for high-level executives. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Han Yong Hong assesses that such developments are accelerating the decoupling between China and foreign countries, with little hope for reversal.

Han Yong Hong

09 Oct 2023

[Picture story] The Boxer Rebellion: A wound in China's modern history

The Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century goes down in history as proof that if the Chinese are weak, the West will take advantage and China will pay the price. It is a constant reminder to the Chinese of their past humiliations and guides their dealings with the West today. Historical photo collector Hsu Chung-mao shares illustrations of the tumultuous times during that period.

Hsu Chung-mao

25 Jun 2021

Why the US is an unreliable partner to Southeast Asia

Canadian academic Shaun Narine says that as long as the Republican Party remains a viable political party capable of gaining power, the US will be politically unstable, and as a result, be an unreliable ally in the future.

Shaun Narine

16 Mar 2021

Cambodia: Hard landing for China's soft power?

Since the early 2000s, there has been an influx of Chinese nationals, investment, and development assistance as part of China's projection of its soft power in Cambodia, most prominently in Sihanoukville. All this has led to resentment among Cambodians, amid China's seeming efforts to turn Sihanoukville into Cambodia's Shenzhen.

Jing Jing Luo, Kheang Un

12 Oct 2020