Satir

Satire: Nothing to see says the IOC

Just before the Paris Olympics a doping scandal dating back to the Tokyo Olympics was revealed. Long story short, 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a powerful banned substance but WADA, the international IOC backed anti-doping agency, was not allowed to visit
4 augusti, 2024

Satire: TikTok dilemma in the US

TikTok is now closer than ever to be shut out from the American market, as the Congress yesterday with a strong bipartisan majority passed a bill that will force its Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the US assets of the app or
14 mars, 2024

Satire: German companies profiting on Xinjiang slave labour

This week was not a good one for the ethic footprint of German companies in China. First, chemicals producer BASF was urged by politicians around the world to exit Xinjiang, as media reports exposed human rights abuses by its Chinese partner company.
15 februari, 2024

Satire: Ma Ying-jeou got a trust issue

Today it’s finally time for Taiwan to elect a new president! In the past week the relation with China has played a major role in the discussion between the candidates, which was also the case in the last election given the development
13 januari, 2024

Satire: An old man with the biggest gun of the Wild West

Earlier this week Xi Jinping went to the US for the first time since 2017. This time he met an American leader who sometimes appears a tad less energetic than his predecessor, which Chinese state media also wasn’t shy to capitalise on.
18 november, 2023

Satir: Xi jagar kablar under ledning av Putin i Östersjön

I onsdags skrev jag artikeln ”Sabotage i Östersjön identiskt med hur Kina förstör kablar kring Taiwan” här på Kinamedia, som nu blivit oktobers mest lästa artikel med över 15 000 visningar. Att kinesiska fartyg nu förstör gasledningar och undervattenskablar i Östersjön är
27 oktober, 2023

Satire: China embraces the ”resistance” of Hamas

Since Hamas indiscriminately attacked Israeli civilians last weekend, Chinese authorities have refrained from condemning its actions or even from mentioning the terrorist group by name. Indeed, as Niklas ”@KluddNiklas” Eriksson depicts in his latest cartoon for Kinamedia, Beijing doesn’t even classify Hamas
16 oktober, 2023

Satir: Sagostund med Xi Jinping

Den senaste veckan har Kalla fakta TV4 avslöjat hur tiotals kommuner använder läroböcker från Kinas kommunistparti i undervisningen av kinesiska som modersmål. Det framkom även att Kinas ambassad hade agerat för att få in dessa böcker i svenska skolor. ”Anmärkningsvärt naivt”, kommenterar
27 september, 2023

Satire: Taiwan’s Tank Woman

As Kinamedia noted yesterday, the Chinese military has stepped up its activities around Taiwan considerably in the past couple of days. Chinese Fighter jets is taking new routes across the median line of the Taiwan Strait, a record number of 20 military
13 september, 2023

Satire: Xi’s afraid of clean water

For over a week now, China has reacted strongly against the decision to release treated waste water from a nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, into the Pacific Ocean. Apart from diplomatic protests, an import ban on Japanese seafood and calls for boycott
5 september, 2023

Satire: Xi charms Macron

This week cartoonist Niklas ”@KluddNiklas” Eriksson makes a brief comeback here at Kinamedia with a new masterpiece. Always with his finger on the pulse of current events, he simply couldn’t refrain from depicting French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China earlier this
19 april, 2023

Satire: Merry Xhristmas

In this week’s satire for Kinamedia, cartoonist Niklas ”@Kludd-Niklas” Eriksson wishes everyone a Merry Xhristmas or perhaps a Merry X(i)mas, with a Christmas card portraying Xi Jinping in front of his own Christmas tree decorated with some of the satire published on
26 december, 2022

Satire: China replacing zero-Covid with usual restrictions

The big China story this recent week is the sudden de facto abandonment of its zero-Covid strategy, by lifting several restrictions regarding testing and quarantine as well as travelling and lockdowns. As this week’s cartoon by Niklas ”@Kludd-Niklas” Eriksson here on Kinamedia
12 december, 2022

Satire: Fruit of knowledge under lockdown in China

One of many breathtaking Covid incidents in China as of late is the lockdown of Apple supplier Foxconn’s factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province. After cases were observed inside the plant, which employs some 200,000 people, thousands of workers were locked up inside
28 november, 2022

Satire: Scholz goes on business trip to China

Earlier this month, Olaf Scholz stirred up some serious discontent among his Western allies as well as his own ministries by being the first European leader to visit China and meet with Xi Jinping after the Party Congress where Xi last month
14 november, 2022

Satire: Xi carries out Hu from the party

She carries out who? Well, Hu Jintao was certainly carried out by Xi Jinping’s allies from the party (congress) that ended last week. In this week’s cartoon for Kinamedia, Niklas ”@Kludd-Niklas” Eriksson uses a custom designed drone to stress the high tech
31 oktober, 2022

Satire: Elon Musk gravitating towards China’s stance on Taiwan

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk earlier this month created headlines by suggesting new referendums and a ”neutral” Ukraine. Unconcerned about the widespread criticism on his geopolitical instincts, Musk a couple of days later went ahead to put forward a recommendation in
17 oktober, 2022

Satire: Apple leading the Escape from China

Last week, Apple announced that its new iPhone will be manufactured not only in China but also in India, due to reasons ranging from geopolitical tensions with the US to Covid-19 induced lockdowns and supply chain problems. As Kinamedia’s cartoonist Niklas ”@Kludd-Niklas”
3 oktober, 2022

Satire: Arriving to Uzbekistan

Last week, Xi Jinping made his first trip out of China for almost 1,000 days, travelling first to Kazakhstan and then to Uzbekistan where he meet with his ”no limit friend” Vladimir Putin. Putin came to the meeting weakened by Russia’s setbacks
19 september, 2022

Satire: Coal against climate change and recession

Chongqing, Sichuan and other parts of central or western China has just experienced the worst heat wave and drought ever on record. The solution: to replace decreased electricity generation from hydropower with even more coal power. The Chinese economy is in serious
29 augusti, 2022
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