Emperor Yuan of Jin (276 – January 3, 323) was an emperor of the Jin dynasty and the first of the Eastern Jin. His reign saw the steady gradual loss of Jin territory in the north, but entrenchment of Jin… Read More ›
If 2020 was the year of pandemic then 2021 will be the year of creation of new blocks and disruptive technologies. Countries like China will take advantage of a vulnerable world and strengthen their position. This year may go down… Read More ›
The European Union and China’s agreement today (December 30) on a new investment pact is either a sign that Brussels is willing to sacrifice its values on the altar of trade or a clever bit of realpolitik to assert independence… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. ‘Growing body of evidence’ shows COVID-19 leaked from Chinese lab: US official China Is Making It Harder to Solve the Mystery of How Covid Began Different efficacy data for Chinese… Read More ›
The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century that would allow for a system of trade in China open to… Read More ›
China’s central state planner on Monday called on companies to step up imports of spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) and thermal coal to ensure energy supplies ahead of an expected cold spell. Demand for natural gas, a key heating fuel… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Scoop: Trump administration declassifies unconfirmed intel on Chinese bounties Jobs, Houses and Cows: China’s Costly Drive to Erase Extreme Poverty China senior diplomat says U.S. relations at ‘new crossroads’C… Read More ›
Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 – 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works. Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned… Read More ›
Dorgon was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing dynasty. Born in the Aisin Gioro clan as the 14th son of Nurhaci (the founder of the Qing dynasty), Dorgon started his career in military campaigns against the Ming… Read More ›
Drilling operations of the first well of the game-changing but highly-controversial Phase 11 of Iran’s supergiant South Pars non-associated natural gas field officially began last week. Significant gas recovery from the enormous resource will commence in the second half of… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Trump was briefed that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack US forces in Afghanistan Scoop: Trump administration declassifies unconfirmed intel on Chinese bounties The highs and lows of… Read More ›
The Yellow River oil spill was an oil spill in the Yellow River in Shaanxi, China which took place due to the rupturing of a segment of Lanzhou-Zhengzhou oil pipeline on December 30, 2009. Approximately 150,000 litres (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil… Read More ›
These days, many argue that our Covid (C-19) response is a planetary fiasco, whose size is yet to surface with its mounting disproportionate and enduring secondary effects, causing tremendous socio-economic, political and psychosomatic contractions and convulsions. But, worse than our… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Hong Kongers who tried to flee to Taiwan jailed in China for up to 3 years Hong Kong Protesters Who Fled by Boat Are Sentenced to Prison in China China… Read More ›
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese politician, physician, and political philosopher, who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China)…. Read More ›
A Chinese court handed down a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak in China. The journalist stood accused of “picking quarrels and… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Pushback on Xi’s Vision for China Spreads Beyond U.S. Chinese journalist who documented Wuhan coronavirus outbreak jailed for 4 years We Found The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps U.S…. Read More ›
Anymore, it’s not only bad news about China, but continued action in both military and trade. The pressure Washington puts on Beijing keeps finding new ways to keep turning up. Sanctions continue to increase. Military attention rises. And, Japan puts… Read More ›
Lin Sen (16 March 1868 – 1 August 1943) was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1931 until his death. Born to a middle-class family in Shanggan Township, Minhou… Read More ›
When the Brexit vote was taking place in UK in 2016, I was addressing the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents’ Club at a monthly breakfast meeting. When the meeting started it seemed as though the remain vote was winning. However, by the… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. How did the pandemic begin? WHO team to seek answers in China Chinese economy to overtake US ‘by 2028’ due to Covid Five stocks lead China’s vaccine race with benchmark-beating… Read More ›
Emperor Gaozong of Tang (21 July 628 – 27 December 683) was the third emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, ruling from 649 to 683; after January 665, he gave his wife great power over the empire, and imperial… Read More ›
Tens of millions across China are facing power shortages in below-freezing winter temperatures, as three provinces impose curbs on electricity use due to surging demand and a squeezed coal supply. Residents, factories and businesses in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. China to overtake US as world’s biggest economy by 2028, report predicts China to leapfrog US as world’s biggest economy by 2028: Report China set to surpass U.S. as world’s… Read More ›
Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan village in the Chinese province of Hunan on December 26, 1893. One of the most important, controversial and powerful figures in modern history, Mao was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China… Read More ›
These days, many argue that our Covid-19 (C-19) response is a planetary fiasco, whose size is yet to surface with its mounting disproportionate and enduring secondary effects, causing tremendous socio-economic, political and psychosomatic contractions and convulsions. But worse than our… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. China turns off the lights in ‘Christmas town’ as officials race to meet energy targets Why China Turned Against Alibaba’s Jack Ma Halts Ant Group IPO China Targets Jack Ma’s… Read More ›
The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time on 25 December. With an estimated magnitude of 7.6 on the surface wave magnitude scale, and a maximum felt intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale, the quake destroyed… Read More ›
China’s roaring industrial rebound from the pandemic has an unforeseen consequence — the surge in power demand has left factories, office buildings and street lights in some areas straining under an electricity shortage. The country’s local governments are cutting power… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Why China Turned Against Alibaba’s Jack Ma Jack Ma’s Alibaba hit with antitrust probe, Ant Group scrutinized – Business Insider Jack Ma’s Empire in Crisis After China Halts Ant Group… Read More ›
As part of the Geneva Lecture Series concepted and conducted by prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic, former Finance Minister of Greece, Professor Yanis Varoufakis centered his two-hour mesmerizing discussion on the pressing need for new international financial institutions in light of… Read More ›
Shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed, Greenpeace opened an office in Moscow. It enjoyed the patronage of a leading member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and enjoyed Kremlin funding, laundered through a state-owned record company. The green activist group… Read More ›
Du Fu (712–770) was a Chinese poet and politician of the Tang dynasty. Along with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. His greatest ambition was to serve… Read More ›
The United States has imposed export controls on dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s biggest chipmaker SMIC, restricting its access to US technology over its alleged ties to China’s military. The announcement on Friday, in the final weeks of… Read More ›
In October 2020, a Pew Research Center survey found that a median of 61 percent of citizens in 14 major economies hold unfavorable views of China. In countries such as the United States and Canada, negative views have reached historic… Read More ›
Hong Kong is suspending all flights carrying travelers from the United Kingdom after a mutated coronavirus was identified in London. From Tuesday, people who have stayed in the UK for more than two hours will not be allowed to board… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. How the U.S. Misread China’s Xi: Hoping for a Globalist, It Got an Autocrat Alibaba shares fall after reports of anti-monopoly probe by China1 hour ago China forces firms like… Read More ›
On December 23, 1852, the first playhouse in the United States catering specifically to a Chinese audience opened in San Francisco. Located on Telegraph Hill, fronting onto Dupont Street (Grant Avenue today), it sat approximately 1400 people in one large… Read More ›
In September, the Chinese province of Hubei – where the first outbreak of Covid-19 occurred – announced 90 billion yuan (about US$14 billion) of investment in the coal, electricity, oil and gas sectors over the next three years. Provincial bosses described… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Jack Ma’s Empire in Crisis After China Halts Ant Group IPO Jack Ma punishment a lesson for China’s other tech bad boys US strikes at the heart of China’s bid… Read More ›
The Tang dynasty, or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty ruling China from 618 to 907, with the Zhou Dynasty briefly ruling between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and… Read More ›
China and Australia’s trade dispute over coal threatens to escalate into a wider spat over climate change and net-zero emissions targets. The Morrison government will use China’s indefinite ban on Australian coal to accuse Beijing of skirting its climate change commitments, as… Read More ›
Millions of Chinese residents have been left without heating in the middle of winter as cities ration electricity amid a blockade on Australian coal. Australia provided 57 per cent of China‘s thermal coal imports in 2019, which is used to generate electricity… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. China’s Secret War for US Data Blew American Spies’ Cover Westerners Grow Wary of China Travel Over Threat of Detention Exclusive: U.S. to publish list of Chinese and Russian firms… Read More ›
Hu Jintao, the fifth paramount leader of China, was born on December 21, 1942. He is a Chinese politician, who was General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, President of the People’s Republic of China… Read More ›
Readers still can’t get a break from bad news of China. More Chinese companies are added to the notorious “entities list”. The WHO sends a team to China, which isn’t exactly wonderful press. China is the biggest military threat. The… Read More ›
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Jack Ma Makes Ant Offer to Placate Chinese Regulators Jack Ma offered China parts of Ant Group to save IPO China rethinks the Jack Ma model China Moon Mission Brings… Read More ›
The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from Portugal to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20 December 1999. Macau was settled by Portuguese merchants in 1535, during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE) and was subsequently under various degrees… Read More ›
