China quietly took 9 steps toward peace for Palestine
GAZA'S REPRESENTATIVES invited China, Russia and Türkiye to stand with their community in any forthcoming peace deal with Israel and the west.
The Palestinians want the three non-western nations to be “co-guarantors” of the eventual pact that ends the fighting, said the head of the Hamas…
It is sometimes said that America bombs while China builds. What's the evidence, and where are the statistics? Richard Cullen takes us through a historical journey to look at exactly how we got to this point.
LET'S EXAMINE THE ORIGIN and nature of the broad global footprints of America and China which are evident across…
A DEPRESSED, STRUGGLING US basketball player got on a plane to China—and found 5,000 people waiting to greet him at the airport.
“Who are all of these people here for?” bewildered former NBA player Stephon Marbury asked his companion.
“They’re here for you,” his host replied.
Marbury’s jaw dropped open. He was stunned—but he would…
REJUVENATION IS THE HOT health concept in China at the moment. In recent years, Chinese women's definition of beauty has been constantly changing. A few years ago, Chinese girls pursued fair skin and slim bodies. This forms an obvious contrast with the current "beauty without definition" idea which has become the core of Chinese girls'…
CHINA WILL FOCUS on developing independent science and technology resources. This will provide “new productive forces”, leader Xi Jinping said at the Two Sessions, the country’s annual parliamentary meetings.
The plan to upgrade the economy with Chinese homegrown technology emerged as a key theme at the series of gatherings which end today [Monday 11 March…
SOME COMMENTATORS are saying that China's annual parliamentary meeting is undramatic this year. This is because they haven't seen announcements about injections of public money that some economists were hoping for. And growth targets were set modestly, at “around 5%” for GDP growth and 3% for the annual budget deficit.
The BBC’s sour correspondent dismissed…
THE GAME OF rock, paper, scissors started in China, historians believe. The Ming Dynasty writer Xie Zhaozhe wrote in the 1600s that it date back to the Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE).
But the three elements weren’t rock, paper and scissors. The game was called shoushiling (手勢令), or hand gesture command.
The original elements…
“Parents who deeply love their children are always visionary. ”
(“父母之愛子,則為之計深遠。”)
-quoted from a Chinese classic“Annals of the Warring States”(《戰國策》)
THE HOUSEHOLD REGISTRATION SYSTEM, which has been in place in China for thousands of years, still has a profound impact on the lives of Chinese people, and to some extent determines their fate.
Because…
THE UK HAS THE WORST 5G service in the European region, a new survey revealed—thanks to the country's decision to kick out their Chinese partners.
At a city level, London now has the worst 5G coverage of major cities in the region, said a study by internet and quality testing company MedUX. It has a…
THE DEBUNKED “China uses prisoners as slave labor” story turns out to be true—but it’s happening in the United States, not China, a shocking new study shows.
Large numbers of prisoners in the US make products for companies including the world’s largest food manufacturers—and are paid just pennies or nothing at all, according to a…