A tearful American-born Chinese figure skater triggered a fierce backlash on Chinese social media for slipping up during her performance two days in a row at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The 19-year-old burst into tears before she could finish her routine, after falling twice and finishing last during the team event’s women’s singles free skating on…

A renowned Chinese economist has been banned from posting on his Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat accounts since Jan. 12, days after publishing his birth rate boosting suggestions. Ren Zeping, a former member of China’s economic think tank and once chief economist of deeply indebted property giant Evergrande, suggested that the Chinese government print 2 trillion…

It used to be said that crime doesn’t pay. But now, according to the IRS, not only does crime pay, but that pay is a taxable asset—and they want a cut. The Internal Revenue Service is now saying that criminals need to report income from crime when they file their taxes. The IRS website now…

An internet control agency in China fined social media giant Weibo 3 million yuan ($470,000) on Dec.14 for repeatedly publishing illegal information on the heavily censored internet. For the year to November, Sina Weibo, the country’s most popular microblogging platform, has faced 44 fines totaling 14.3 million yuan ($2.2 million) by the Cyberspace Administration of…

HONG KONG—More commonly known for sparking debate on Twitter, Elon Musk was the centre of speculation on Weibo on Tuesday after the Tesla CEO posted a poem on the Chinese site that some took to be an extension of his clash with the U.N’s World Food Program. Musk and World Food Program (WFP) head David…

BEIJING—Three pet cats that tested positive for coronavirus were put down in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, state-backed media reported, leading to a social media backlash at what some viewed as overkill in local efforts to contain the virus. The owner of the cats was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Sept. 21 and the local…

The Chinese regime has made investments in two of the nation’s most significant technology firms—ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns global video app TikTok, and Weibo, China’s version of Twitter—in a move apparently intended to bolster its sway over the nation’s technology sector. In April, ByteDance sold a 1 percent stake in its Chinese subsidiary,…

SHANGHAI—Chinese authorities have arrested a top public relations executive at Chinese social media giant Weibo Corp, local Chinese media reported widely on Aug. 10 and confirmed to Reuters by a company source. According to an internal memo sent to staff and seen by Reuters, Mao Taotao, director of public relations at Weibo, which is partly…

BEIJING—A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, or “Little Red Book,” was unavailable on Sunday after it issued a post on Friday, June 4, the anniversary of the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, a highly sensitive date in China. The Friday post on its account on China’s Twitter-like Weibo…

Last weekend, while social media platforms across China were flooded with posts mourning the death of Yuan Longping, lauded as China’s “father of hybrid rice,” some dissident voices did not escape from the Chinese regime’s clutches. China’s top agricultural expert Yuan, who is praised in state media for developing the world’s first high-yield hybrid rice…