Shanghai

This Yom Kippur, Chabad Shanghai emissaries reflect on absence of inherent antisemitism in China

Shanghai’s Jewish community doesn’t announce itself with a grand facade. It lives in a modest building, adapted over time into a full community hub with a small synagogue.

Rabbi Shalom and Rebbetzin Dina Greenberg of Shanghai with The Media Line's Giorgia Valente.
CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin during a ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, on Sunday. It is tempting to argue that fortune has been on China’s side, says the writer.

Xi’s SCO moment: Strategy or an accident of history? - opinion

Defense ministers from across the world, applaud following a group photo, before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' Meeting in Qingdao, Shandong province, China June 26, 2025.

'New world order' awaits results of China-India rapprochement - analysis

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, March 11, 2025.

Mediation and condemnation: BRICS nations weigh in on Israel-Iran attacks


Is China the next world peacemaker? - opinion

Just last month, China successfully brokered a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement and indicated that it wishes to play peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine.

 CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER Qin Gang attends a conference in Shanghai, last week. He has told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that Beijing is ready to help facilitate peace talks.

Protester breaks silence on China's crackdown on COVID demonstrators

"Even though zero-COVID is over, these people who sacrificed their freedom for us are still in prison."

 Police officers stand guard as people protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions and hold a vigil to commemorate the victims of a fire in Urumqi, as outbreaks of the coronavirus disease continue, in Beijing, China, November 27, 2022.

Shanghai Passover: Celebrating the holiday in China's COVID lockdown

Recollection of the lockdown Passover Seder of 2022 in Shanghai, China.

 AN EMPTY Shanghai street on Passover 2022.

Iran opposes US by joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization - analysis

The SCO includes countries in Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and China but no Western countries.

 Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Russia pushes for authoritarians to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization - analysis

With the exception of India, the countries that attend the SCO are generally authoritarian regimes.

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Qingdao, China, on June 9

Shanghai lockdown reduces CT contrast dye supplies worldwide

CT scan appointments in Israel and abroad are being canceled or postponed because hospitals don't have enough contrast dye for all appointments.

 CT Scan machine

China COVID jitters flare up as parts of Shanghai resume lockdown

Shanghai had recently eased heavy COVID curbs, but China has stuck with a "dynamic zero-COVID" policy aimed at shutting down transmission chains as soon as possible.

 A resident gets tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a sealed area, after the lockdown placed to curb the COVID-19 outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 8, 2022.

Shanghai lockdown stalls launch of China's most advanced aircraft carrier

Following a lockdown, shipyards in Shanghai are now running out of workers as Chinese authorities have ordered all Shanghai state-owned enterprises to send employees to fight COVID-19.

 COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai

Meretz MK to become Israel’s highest ranking female Arab diplomat

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi will be the first Israeli Arab woman to hold such a senior diplomatic position.

 MK GHAIDA RINAWIE ZOABI attends a Special  Committee on Arab Society Affairs meeting, in the  Knesset in June

From Nazi Germany to Shanghai to California, a story of Jewish success

Heinz Meyer fled Nazi Germany, and struggled his way to success through China, before establishing himself in the United States.

Henry (Heinz) Meyer outside Hamburger Henry, where he made gourmet hamburgers in the 1980s