The China Academy is an intellectual content network dedicated to helping global audiences understand the key dynamics that are driving how China sees the world, from expert voices who resonate with millions of Chinese youths today and who shape policies and narratives in China.
The China Academy is founded by a team of media professionals, trusted by more than 150 million social media followers, and is supported by China’s top think tanks. This is a gateway to understanding the fundamental logics of how China operates from its politics, to business and economics, science and technology.
The China Academy provides Up-To-Date and On-The-Ground insights through video programs and digital courses on www.thechinaacademy.org and a network of distribution channels. It also runs events and conferences, and has a long history of offering research and advisory work servicing government and corporate institutions.
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Why has something as trivial as Europeans buying Chinese air conditioners become such a hot topic in the media? Because European politicians, knowing full well that it would harm the public's well-being, are still "building walls" against China. Why are they doing this? The root cause lies in Europe's "spinelessness" toward the United States.
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China’s Pharma Industry Is on the Cusp of Going Global: An industry once dismissed as a generic drug maker has quietly reinvented itself as a force for innovation.
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In the 1980s, China couldn't even make a zipper that wouldn't jam — products and production lines all had to be imported. By assembling, imitating, then innovating on Western goods, it grew into the world's factory and innovation hub. Many call China the West's best student for this. But there's one Western path China may never follow:
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Alleged Leaked Transcript of DeepSeek CEO’s Four-Hour Meeting: 118 Answers on His Roadmap：
“We will continue to open-source our models, and I believe that even our most advanced models will eventually be open-sourced.”
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2026 Shanghai Creator Bootcamp | August 12 – 14
Discover the full landscape of mainland China’s social media ecosystem and master platform algorithms, creator growth frameworks and profitable cross-border content monetization strategies. Highlights: Headquarters tours of top domestic social platforms, roundtable discussions with premier Chinese content creators, cross-platform operational playbooks, brand-creator commercial matching opportunities.
This exclusive three-day workshop was tailor made for global Chinese-speaking digital creators looking to expand their reach across Chinese social platforms.
Now Open for Registration
Join your fellow creators for:
- Guided on-site tours of two major mainland social media headquarters
- Live panel with four A-list mainland content creators
- Insider growth playbooks for four flagship platforms, coached by veteran account strategists
We’ll also host on-site brand-creator matchmaking sessions. Top-performing creators could lock in brand partnerships worth up to $3,000 USD! Attendance to this segment is optional.
This bootcamp is perfect if you are a:
- TikTok creator
- YouTube creator
- Graphic & long-form content creator
- Entrepreneur building a personal brand
- Any digital creator across all niches
Event Details
The participation fee is RMB 5,000, excluding flights and accommodation. All attendees will arrange their own travel to Shanghai. This workshop is run by our mainland China team, so payments can only be made via WeChat Pay or Alipay.
We’re limiting this cohort to just 30 creators, and we expect spots to close out quickly—inquire now to register.
Important note: All sessions will be conducted entirely in Chinese, so working fluency in Chinese is required for participation.
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After nine years, China's homegrown E-class supercomputer Lineshine has once again topped the TOP500 global ranking. Find out how China achieved this feat amid tightening U.S. chip restrictions.
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For decades, the West has championed political institutions as a safeguard against the abuse of power. Yet Epstein’s files were deliberately kept hidden for a decade. Ancient China’s bureaucracy had a different answer: officials were kept in check twice, once by law and once by morality. The West borrowed elements of this system centuries ago, but skipped one crucial step. Guess which?
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China's EV story did not begin with BYD or CATL. It began decades ago with a question few outside China have ever encountered: Why follow the gasoline-powered path at all when China could move directly into the electric age? In 1992, the scientist Qian Xuesen raised that possibility. Yet more than a decade earlier, in 1976, another Chinese scientist had already bet on lithium batteries as the technology that could make such a leap possible.
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Western headlines called it "forced assimilation." But they left out what China's new Ethnic Unity Law actually says.
The law doesn't just promote Mandarin—it also explicitly protects minority languages, cultures, and lawful rights. The debate is bigger than the headlines suggest. Read what most coverage missed.
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The EU Builds Trade Walls While Europeans Scramble for Chinese ACs. Who Pays for Protectionism?
Amid a brutal European heatwave, Germans have to drive to Hungary, which maintains a more open trade policy toward China, to buy Chinese ACs.
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