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NüVoices Podcast #128: The Wall Dancers: A Conversation with Journalist and Author Yi-Ling Liu This week, NüVoices editor and freelance journalist Jessie Lau speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, a writer covering technology and Chinese society, about her debut book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet”. 

NEW EPISODE: This week, Jessie Lau speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, a writer covering technology and Chinese society, about her debut book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet”: nuvoices.com/2026/02/18/n...

⏰ Reminder: our 2026 creative non-fiction contest is still open for submissions until 1 March! The theme is ‘In Flux’ – in the era of uncertainty, what are the lingering aftershocks of instability, and how do you respond to the changes?

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Gen Alpha Is Helping Revive China’s Struggling Malls Shopping centers grappling with the shift to e-commerce increasingly focus on kids, hoping their parents will tag along.

Chinese malls are grappling with a consumption slump and the rapid shift to e-commerce. Their solution: activities that cater to Generation Alpha.

China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it’s working Chinese companies control 90% of the humanoid robot market, dominating the technology that will reshape manufacturing and labor. The West is barely competing.

While Silicon Valley spent 2025 polishing its marketing decks for the humanoid future, China was busy shipping the robots.

Nearly 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally in 2025 were Chinese
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-humanoid-robots-unitree-agibot-tesla-optimus/?utm_source=bluesky

To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet In her new book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet,” journalist Yi-Ling Liu examines the country’s censorship, viral trends and growing global power.

“In 2023, 700 Americans studied in Mainland China, down from 15,000 a decade earlier.”
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China’s biotech sector has surpassed the EU to become the world’s second-largest new drug maker.

For global firms, opportunity lies in treating China as a co-innovation hub while maintaining safeguards.

From Lizzi Lee and Huiyan Li in our newsletter
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎
The Nüora Global team wishes everyone a year filled with success, happiness, peace, and good health!
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新年快樂！祝大家萬事如意, 步步高升， 幸福安康 ！

Yesterday, ASPI hosted a panel discussion examining what lies ahead for the U.S.–Japan alliance amid President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy, Japan’s evolving political landscape following Sanae Takaichi’s election, and a new U.S. National Security Strategy 🇯🇵🇺🇸

The Outlook for China-US Strategic Competition in 2026 Insights from Sarah M. Beran.

For other recent insights with Mercy, she interviews Sarah M. Beran—former NSC China and Taiwan affairs senior director and U.S. chargé d’affaires to China—for @thediplomat.com, where they discuss the 2026 outlook for U.S.–China. thediplomat.com/2025/12/the-...

Venezuela, Energy, and the U.S.–China Power Struggle How U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere is forcing Beijing to rethink its approach — and how companies can manage risk

Meanwhile, Beijing is using this to bolster its standing in the Global South while likely assessing operational and strategic lessons for Taiwan.

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Credit: Oil well at sunset. Photo by Jan Zakelj/Pexels

According to Kuo, oil is the pressure point. Control of Venezuela’s reserves reshapes global energy flows, debt exposure, and China’s sourcing options. "If Venezuelan oil exports to China are hampered, China could seek alternative sources of crude oil from Canada, Iran or Iraq," she says.

Image depicts two paper boats - red one with US flag on left and blue one with China flag on right - sitting atop a map.

Venezuela, Energy, and the U.S.–China Power Struggle: In this week’s @nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter, guest expert consultant Mercy Kuo unpacks how U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere is forcing Beijing to rethink its approach — and how companies can manage risk. Link below 👇

And if you missed it earlier, meet Crystal Tai, our managing partner:

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#nuoraglobaladvisors #marketintelligence #riskmanagement #thoughtleadership | Jing Zhang Happy 2026 all 🌄 from a hot air balloon, 4800 feet up overlooking Vang Vieng's jade green valleys and limestone karsts ⛰️ in Laos. 💫 And yes, this how I tried to escape 2026 world news just days in. A...

Meet @nuoraglobal.bsky.social 's Regional Director for Europe, Jing Zhang, former Global Editor-in-Chief of Jing Daily. She's an expert in luxury, fashion, and retail across Asia and China, and we're thrilled to have her as part of our team.

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We broke down BYD’s financials, innovations, and public image in five charts to show where the world’s biggest EV seller stands as it bets on global expansion:
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Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs Europe’s shift toward cooperation over protectionism on Chinese EVs is more political than business-driven.

The EU has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars
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Wind energy for AI is devastating Taiwan’s coastal farming communities
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts

Carney’s China Embrace Widens Gap With US in Trump’s Tariff Era Canada has long stuck closely to the US on China policy, even through a diplomatic crisis over high-profile prisoners. Along with historic trade ties, that alignment is now cracking.

Mark Carney’s dispassionate tone masked a stunning message of realignment: China is a “more predictable” trading partner than the US now, requiring stronger ties with Beijing as a “new world order” takes hold.

“I often say I will be the last generation of oyster farmers here. There’s no way we can fight this.”

The rapid expansion of wind energy is disrupting farming communities in Taiwan
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts/

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To kick things off, we want to introduce some of our team members over the coming days. First up, meet our managing partner, Crystal Tai, a journalist, cultural strategy researcher, and co-author of Honjak: The Art of Living Alone.

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A belated happy new year everyone! Our team has been hard at work getting things off the ground and we have a lot of exciting developments that we're excited to share with you in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned!

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.

It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.

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Tracking China’s Global Tech and Investment Moves Tips from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Malaysia

I spoke last month on how Chinese firms operate across borders amid tariffs and export bans.

I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.

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The tariff exemptions matter.
Note this exemption and link to AI related imports

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The Outlook for China-US Strategic Competition in 2026 Insights from Sarah M. Beran.

And for @thediplomat.com, Nüora guest consultant Mercy Kuo interviews Sarah M. Beran—former NSC China and Taiwan affairs senior director and U.S. chargé d’affaires to China—on the 2026 outlook for U.S.–China strategic competition. thediplomat.com/2025/12/the-...