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An American designer who spent 16 years in Shanghai wrote an essay in the NYT highlighting the virtues of raising her children under the eye of the Chinese government.

ShutterstockChina’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961. Unlike the famine, whose effects were temporary, and followed by steady population growth, this downturn will be long-lasting, even if it is followed by a temporary rebound in births, bringing forward the day the world’s population peaks and starts to shrink. The National Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday that China’s population fell to 1.412 billion...

For the first time in a long time, a year can begin with a realistic assessment that Australia-China relations are on an upward trajectory again. After winning last May’s federal election, the new Albanese government set “stabilisation” as the objective for Canberra’s relations with Beijing. Rather than reaching for something loftier, “stabilisation” made sense given the new Labor government was inheriting a relationship in its worst state since 1972, the year the Whitlam government moved to recognise Beijing (instead of Taipei) as China’s sole legal government. Under the previous Morrison government, there had been no senior-level political dialogue for more...

 Kim Keat offers Claypot Hokkien Mee Being present at most food courts and hawker centres, Hokkien mee is indisputably one of Singapore’s hawker staples. A friend who knows my obsession with Hokkien mee sent me a picture of Kim Keat Hokkien Mee’s Claypot Hokkien Mee, and I had to try this unique riff on a classic for myself. 12 Hokkien Mee Stalls In Singapore Every Local Foodie Must Try Food at Kim Keat Hokkien Mee We went straight to the stall and ordered what we came here for – Claypot Hokkien Mee ($10/$15/$20/$25/$30). We got the smallest portion, which feeds two,...

They say "behind every strong man is a strong woman." I’ll add that inside of every 151-foot-tall strong woman are two park rangers, perched in the corners of her crown, advising you on the best angles for your photos. “If you look down, you can see her tablet,” one of them said after my ascent last week. “I don’t want to see the tablet!” the woman arriving behind me screamed. She had no malice against the written word or aversion to its July 4, 1776 inscription; she was just afraid of heights. “If you’ve made it here, honey,” the friendly...