À Yiwu, capitale du «Made in China», le peu d’inquiétude face à la guerre commerciale de Donald Trump La ville de Yiwu est la vitrine de l’industrie manufacturière du pays. Dans une échoppe sont exposées des poupées «ventre mou» des usines alentour. Véronique de Viguerie pour «Le Figaro Magazine» REPORTAGE - Au printemps dernier, le président des États-Unis a déclaré une nouvelle guerre commerciale à l’empire du Milieu en fixant à 30% la surtaxe américaine sur les produits chinois. Mais rien ne semble impressionner son homologue Xi Jinping. Le 31 août 2025 à 11h00 Gardez-vous de vous perdre dans les allées infinies du plus grand marché de gros au monde. L’amusement initial devant les échoppes exiguës débordant de produits familiers cédera vite la place au vertige. Les fêtes de Noël , d’ Halloween ou de l’Aïd n’ont pas de saison sous les néons éclairant les 5 millions de mètres carrés du complexe situé à Yiwu, au sud de Shanghaï, dans la province...
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«Un nid d’espions et de transfuges» : sur la rivière Tumen, la Chine prise en tenailles entre Kim Jong-un et Poutine Des milliers de Nord-Coréens vivraient illégalement dans les zones frontalières du nord-est de la Chine (ici, la ville de Namyang). PEDRO PARDO / AFP Sur les routes de la soie, l’ours russe face au dragon chinois À son extrémité nord-est, la Chine est privée d’accès à la mer par ses encombrants voisins, trahissant les ambiguïtés du partenariat sino-russe Par Sébastien Falletti envoyé spécial à Tumen et Hunchun (Chine). Le 6 août 2025 à 14h56 L’Airbus A320 d’Air China plonge dans l’aube crayeuse quand la voix grésillante du pilote réveille la carlingue. « Veuillez baisser les volets des hublots pour l’atterrissage ! » Le biréacteur heurte brutalement le tarmac de Yanji. Aussitôt, les hôtesses houspillent à grands cris les passagers trop curieux levant un coin du voile camouflant ce petit aéroport du nord-est de la Chine. On ne badi...
China Rekindles Wartime Fury, Stirring Fears of Anti-Japan Hate A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent. Posters for the films “Dead to Rights,” left, and “Dongji Rescue,” second left, at a cinema in Shanghai this month. Credit... Visual China Group, via Getty Images Aug. 30, 2025 The star-studded big-budget epics dominating Chinese cinemas this summer are about the country’s fight against the Japanese during World War II. In movie theaters, audiences have risen to sing the national anthem. Children have been moved to tears, vowing to become soldiers when they grow up. Video Credit... Ziyan.ZIYAN via Douyin One film, “Dead to Rights,” about Japan’s 1937 invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing, follows a group of Chinese who smuggle out photographs and help document the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, an event known as the Nanjing Massa...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn’t Us Illustration: Martin Kozlowski The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation’s capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats. But the military’s deployment in Washington shouldn’t be understood merely as the latest MAGA cut against American democracy. It reflects a new zeal among partisan activists for “occupying” adversarial domestic institutions—the “deep state” for some, Wall Street for others. Occupation wasn’t always so important to reformers—but now it’s close to an obsession. The question today: Can China be the external threat that restores internal cohesion to our politics? Politics hasn’t always been like this. For most of the 20th century, America took strength from its diversity of character and thought. Nazism spurred a nation of immigrants to unite in erecting an “arsenal of democracy.” The “evil empire,” as Ronald Reagan described the Sov...
RATTY RATS SPY ON LESSER RATS China Ups Surveillance of Troubled People to Quell Rising Unrest Aug. 31, 2025 9:00 pm ET A 68-year-old man in China’s Zhejiang province barged into a local government office last year and declared he couldn’t go on living. His neighbors were bullying him, he claimed, and he threatened to take revenge. The man had previously served a prison term. He was financially strained, estranged from his family and had frequent conflicts with neighbors. He was what Chinese authorities call a “five-loss individual”: someone with life setbacks, investment failures, family disputes, mental disorders or “emotional imbalance.” Authorities swung into action. A sprawling new Communist Party agency, the Central Society Work Department, arranged a support plan that delayed some of the man’s debt repayment deadlines and provided counseling and other benefits. Within weeks, the local society-work office declared on social media that the man’s life was “back on track,...