Court orders Chinese version of ‘The Voice’ to use a different name

Dutch copyright holder Talpa Media handed production rights for next four seasons of popular programme to Zhejiang Tangde in January

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The Voice of China is the mainland’s popular licensed version of the format by Talpa Media of the Netherlands. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Published: 2:59pm, 22 Jun 2016Updated: 11:49pm, 22 Jun 2016

The television production company behind the first four seasons of The Voice of China, a popular adaptation of the Dutch reality talent show The Voice, has been ordered by a Beijing court to use a different name for its singing competition.

The ruling follows a bitter legal dispute between Star China Media and its former partner Talpa Media, the Dutch production company that owns the format of the show.

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How China overtook the US in hypersonic arms and may leave air defences ‘powerless’

A big reason is the long-range CJ-1000, the world’s first and so far only operational land-based scramjet-powered hypersonic missile

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China’s CJ-1000 hypersonic cruise missile is capable of striking high-value naval and aerial assets from thousands of kilometers away. Photo: CCTV

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Published: 6:00am, 19 Feb 2026Updated: 10:26am, 19 Feb 2026

With the unveiling of the long-range hypersonic CJ-1000 missiles, China has surpassed the United States in the critical race to field practical scramjet propulsion systems, according to a mainland military magazine.

Alongside the ship-launched YJ-19, the CJ-1000 road-mobile cruise missile was one of two hypersonic missiles powered by advanced air-breathing scramjet engines on show during the Victory Day military parade in Beijing in September last year.

They are the world’s only two operational scramjet-driven hypersonic missiles besides Russia’s ship-based 3M22 “Zircon”. The CJ-1000 is therefore the first and to date only land-based variant of its kind.