Foreigners
Economy
China shuts 32-year tax loophole used by wealthy Chinese
China has scrapped a 32-year tax exemption on dividends for foreign individuals. The move targets “fake foreign investors” and reflects Beijing’s broader push to tighten cross-border oversight and enforce tax fairness. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Liu Liu gets to the heart of the matter.
Liu Liu
03 Sep 2026
Society
How an American influencer exposed China’s ‘crotch nationalism’
The scandal surrounding an American influencer in China has exposed how quickly pro-China digital personas can turn sour, leaving female victims caught in a crossfire of nationalist judgment. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Liu Liu dives into the matter.
Liu Liu
26 Aug 2026
Society
[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
Economy
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
Politics
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
Society
[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
Society
[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
Society
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
Culture
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
Politics
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