• Mon-02-2025
Slithering Into the Year of the Snake (January 28, 2025, ChinaSource)

As we welcome the Year of the Snake, our team has prepared a short video to send heartfelt New Year’s blessings to all our readers! We also invite you to explore our archive of articles that delve into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of the Lunar New Year. Wishing you and your family a joyful and blessed Lunar New Year! 蛇年大吉,“蛇”么都有!

  • Mon-02-2025
Tithing as Proof of Citizenship (January 27, 2025, China Partnership)

Tithing is a way believers actively live out their faith by storing up their treasures in heaven, because it demonstrates where their allegiance lies and where their hearts long to be. A Christian’s tithe to the church is much like a passport; it is proof of heavenly citizenship.

  • Mon-02-2025
Snake in the Chinese Culture and Serpent in the Bible (January 27, 2025, ChinaSource)

When the Year of the Snake arrives on the Chinese lunar calendar, the Chinese people routinely say something auspicious related to snakes, such as “The snake travels a thousand miles, and I wish all is well with you,” “The golden snake welcomes the spring, bringing you good fortune, longevity, peace, and health.” But in Chinese culture, the snake is not only a symbol of health, wealth, wisdom, agility, and mystery, but also considered to be a symbol of cunning, malice, and danger.

  • Mon-02-2025
Practicing Faith Through Hospitality During Spring Festival (January 26, 2023, China Christian Daily)

People may boast of their wealth or status with lavish banquets, but Christian hospitality aims to glorify God. In practicing hospitality over the Spring Festival, we can focus on sharing the gospel and conveying God’s grace in every act of kindness. We can use our homes for evangelism, with tables set with love, offering a feast of faith, love, and wisdom, and sharing God’s love with more people.

  • Mon-02-2025
How Our Church Prays (January 23, 2025, China Partnership)

Praying for the city isn’t just a vague exercise. It requires you to understand the city. To pray with purpose and meaning, we need to understand the beauty, brokenness, and idols of the city. This has also helped us experience remarkable growth in evangelism.

  • Mon-02-2025
China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing (January 31, 2025, Financial Times)

Satellite images show a roughly 1,500-acre construction site 30km south-west of Beijing with deep holes that military experts assess will house large, hardened bunkers to protect Chinese military leaders during any conflict — including potentially a nuclear war.

  • Mon-02-2025
DeepSeek Is a Win for China in the A.I. Race. Will the Party Stifle It? (February 2, 2025, The New York Times)

DeepSeek has shown that it might be possible for China to make A.I. cheaper and more accessible for everyone. The question, though, is how the ruling Communist Party manages the rise of a technology that could one day be so disruptive that it could threaten its interests — and its grip on power.

  • Mon-02-2025
China’s silence over Russia–North Korea ties an opportunity for the US (January 2, 2025, East Asia Forum)

Relations between North Korea and Russia have developed rapidly over the course of 2024. For the first time in two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea, culminating in a mutual defence pact. As a result of ever-closer relations, North Korea sent 10,000 soldiers to fight alongside Russia against Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. This alliance has alarmed officials in Washington and Beijing.

  • Mon-01-2025
China’s economic performance: New numbers, same overstatement (January 16, 2025, Atlantic Council)

Spoiler alert: Based on all indications, authorities will report economic growth within one- or two-tenths of 5 percent, exactly as planned more than twelve months ago. That result will be political, underscoring Beijing’s assertion that it has the means to steer the economy to whatever result is desired. But is that the growth rate that objective economists would arrive at?

  • Mon-01-2025
China-linked hacker group targets victims in East Asia with malicious VPN installers (January 23, 2025, The Record Media)

A previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacker group has been targeting users in East Asia in a new espionage campaign. The threat actor, tracked as PlushDaemon, compromised a virtual private network (VPN) installer developed by the South Korean firm IPany to deploy custom malware on the victims' devices.