We aren’t impressed with its tones
A woman in the Anhui capital of Hefei has recently been showing off her cat’s ability to “speak Chinese.”
The woman claims that she has communicated with her cat for a long time and that he can understand simple emotions and language and can respond appropriately.
As evidence, the woman has shown off two interactions with her pet. In the first clip, she asks the cat, “Do you love me?” and the cats responds “love (ài).”
While in the second, she asks, “Are you tired?” and the cat groans “tired (lèi).”
In case you’re not impressed by this feline’s linguistic skills and feel like you speak better Mandarin than it does, know that the cat is also an expert mouse catcher, so it still has one up on you.
Amid protests and violence across the US, Chinese officials are trolling hard
China has been eagerly lapping up the chaos from the protests and unrest in the United States resulting from the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, though they haven’t quite got the lingo down yet.
In response to a tweet from Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, calling for the US to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying wrote this:
“All lives matter. We stand firmly with our African friends. We strongly oppose all forms of racial discrimination and inflammatory expressions of racism and hatred.”
While China obviously has its own issues with racial and ethnic discrimination, it’s also notable that Hua adopts the “All Lives Matter” slogan often used by those opposed to “Black Lives Matter” movement to dismiss the kind of systemic discrimination and oppression of African Americans that protesters are currently in the street demonstrating against. …
The high price of love
Demonstrating the tremendous cost of love, a woman has become a billionaire overnight.
Du Weimin (杜伟民), the chairman of Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co, has transferred 161.3 million company shares to his ex-wife, Yuan Liping (袁莉萍), as part of the couple’s divorce settlement.
The shares are worth a whopping $3.29 billion.
Following the transfer, Yuan holds about a 24 percent stake in Kangtai, though she has signed over her voting rights to her ex-husband.
Kangtai is a Chinese vaccine-maker which got listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2017 and has seen its stocks surge this year after announcing its intentions to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. …
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