Freshman year student goes to university with dementia grandma
Li Haijian and her aged 91 grandma who brought her up since 3 (photo captured from SingTao Daily)
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Jailed citizen journalist loses half her bodyweight in Chinese prison
Jailed Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has lost half her bodyweight since her detention in 2019, when she began an intermittent hunger strike in protest at her jailing. Zhang, 37, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Shanghai’s Pudong District… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia, August 23, 2021
The White House’s distinction between Far Eastern allies and Afghanistan is consistent with the US strategic pivot during the Obama years: away from the Middle East, toward China. While China interprets the befuddled Afghanistan withdrawal as an indication that the… Read More ›
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In Afghanistan, China is ready to step into the void
The speed and scope of the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan have prompted introspection in the West over what went wrong, and how, after billions of dollars spent on a 20-year war effort, it could all end so ignominiously. China, though,… Read More ›
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China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis
China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature on Friday amended the Population and… Read More ›
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Is democratic leadership as it should be?
The Tokyo Olympic Games, just concluded, were a spectacular success and grateful thanks are owed to our Japanese hosts to make this event so, at a time when we were in the middle of a global pandemic. There were many… Read More ›
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Chinese president vows to ‘adjust excessive incomes’ of super rich
China’s president has vowed to “adjust excessive incomes” in a warning to the country’s super-rich that the state plans to redistribute wealth to tackle widening inequality. According to reports in state media, Xi Jinping told officials at a meeting of… Read More ›
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The new US Air Force secretary wants to ‘scare China’
After being sworn in as the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian, Frank Kendall went straight to the budget books. Kendall, a former Pentagon acquisition chief who is well-acquainted with the world of military technology, immediately immersed himself in the Air… Read More ›
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China finally realises the return of the Taliban poses more risk than it does opportunity
As China watches the chaotic scenes unfold in the Afghan capital Kabul, it is likely seeing more imminent risk than opportunity. Since US President Joe Biden announced in April a full withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, there has… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia August 16, 2021
Taiwan continues to shine. Aide sent to Haiti after a devastating earthquake combines growing ties with Lithuania. China objects—and those are bad optics that China’s speech-control can’t control outside its borders. China has been rewriting religion for years. Hymnals already… Read More ›
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China, Pakistan and their secret wars in Afghanistan
In 2014 then US President Obama announced that he plans to cut the 34000 strong American forces in Afghanistan by 70 percent. He further stated that by 2015 he intended to bring the strength to 5500 and by 2016 a… Read More ›
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China jails Canadian businessman Michael Spavor for 11 years on ‘spying’ charges
Another Canadian national detained by the Chinese authorities days after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver has been handed an 11-year jail term by a court in the northeastern province of Liaoning on spying charges. Michael Spavor,… Read More ›
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Xi’s dictatorship threatens the Chinese state
Xi Jinping, the ruler of China, suffers from several internal inconsistencies which greatly reduce the cohesion and effectiveness of his leadership. There is a conflict between his beliefs and his actions and between his public declarations of wanting to make… Read More ›
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China’s reckless hostage diplomacy increases the chances of war
Xi Jinping’s ascent to the pinnacle of power within China and the Chinese Communist Party has brought with it a more assertive foreign policy in all directions. Under his leadership, China has eschewed Deng Xiao Ping’s wisdom of tao guang… Read More ›
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Shanghai bans English exams amid calls for less English teaching
Authorities in Shanghai have canceled primary school English exams in a bid to lighten the burden on children and parents, amid growing calls for English to be de-emphasized in China’s state schools. The Shanghai municipal government education bureau announced last… Read More ›
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Beijing and the myopia of the left in the West
A few years ago, the economist and historian Giovanni Arrighi published a curious text entitled “Adam Smith in Beijing”, which attracted the interest of geo-political enthusiasts. Arrighi, who left us in 2009, had a truly unique career path. At his… Read More ›
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West’s Anti-lockdown and China’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
Anti-lockdown protestors
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Chinese court upholds death penalty for Canadian charged with drug trafficking
A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence of a Canadian citizen who was accused of trafficking more than 200 kilograms of methamphetamine from China to Australia. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was born in 1982, was one of several Canadians… Read More ›
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Australia flags trade swing from China to India
Australian special envoy and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a free trade agreement between his nation and India would signal the “democratic world’s tilt away from China.” Abbott visited New Delhi last week as Australia’s special trade envoy for… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia, August 9, 2021
India has an aircraft carrier. It just finished its maiden voyage in China’s backyard. Those shipping lanes—one third of ocean-faring trade traffic—which China wants to claim by planting islands next to—most of them pass India. If any of them have… Read More ›
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USA edges China, takes home most gold medals from Tokyo Olympics
It took until the final few medal events of the Tokyo Olympics, but the United States pushed ahead of China to close the 2020 Games as the big winners. The U.S. took home more gold medals than any other country… Read More ›
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China is pushing a big COVID-19 lie that makes a new pandemic harder to prevent
Beijing refuses to give World Health Organization critical data, and pushes a propaganda lie that the virus originated in the United States. As Americans wrestle over how to defeat the delta variant of COVID-19, China’s government is still refusing to… Read More ›
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China unveils 600 km/h Transrapid train
It’s fast, very fast. In fact, it is the fastest train the world. Capable of speeds up to 600 km/h ( (373 mph), China’s high-speed Maglev electric bullet train could very well close the gap between rail-based trains with a maximum… Read More ›
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Chinese Medalists Wear Mao Pins, Then Edit Them Out of Photo Following Controversy
A Chinese Olympic gold medalist posted a social media photo of her and her partner standing on the podium, but something that had been on their jackets went missing: badges depicting the former Communist leader Mao Zedong. Bao Shanju, 23,… Read More ›
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China’s biggest private companies are in chaos. It’s all part of Beijing’s ‘plan’
China’s crackdown on private enterprise has wiped out more than $1.2 trillion in market value for many powerful Chinese companies and stoked fears about the future of innovation in the world’s second largest economy. But the end goal of Beijing’s… Read More ›
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Japan plans to deploy missiles in Taiwan in 2022 to counter China
Japan is planning to deploy missile units on an island 300 kilometers off the coast of Taiwan to counter China’s growing naval presence in the area and defend against a potential Chinese attack. Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a… Read More ›
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Taliban tells China what it wants to hear on East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Afghanistan’s Taliban and China are drawing closer together as the militant group drives to seize power through force in the wake of America’s troop withdrawal. Whether the two sides can build a mutually beneficial alliance, however, will come down to… Read More ›
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2021 Olympic viewership: China vs USA
At least 4 reasons explain the differences between China and the USA on viewership of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. While the viewing of the Games both live and via media reporting in Greater China — mainland, Taiwan Island, Hong… Read More ›
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‘Made in China’ products are running into new international shipping problems
Chinese companies wanting to go global are running into shipping problems. Access to cheap manufacturing at home gave Chinese businesses an advantage overseas. But it’s turning into a disadvantage now, as the pandemic and trade tensions disrupt international supply channels…. Read More ›
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The dubious terms of China’s massive international loan spree
China is the world’s biggest lender to governments. And that’s not just because of its gigantic stockpile of US Treasuries. For much of the past decade Beijing has sought to plug massive infrastructure funding gaps across multiple continents through its… Read More ›
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Analysis of China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative: Genesis and Development
Understanding the foreign policy and geo-economic strategies of countries, especially in such a difficult time when national borders are closed and the “militarization” of cybersecurity (Hopkins, 2012), becomes an important, if not vital, task for each individual country in its attempts to… Read More ›
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China decides to engage with Afghanistan’s Taliban to further persecute Uyghurs
With the United States withdrawing and the Taliban having swept to control of about half of Afghanistan, few observers give the Afghan government much chance of survival. September may be a decisive month, when the withdrawal is complete and American… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia, August 2, 2021
British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is trudging through China’s backyard. Chinese government news “Global Times” describes Britain as trying to relive its old days. China was never happy about getting its ass whipped twice in the Opium Wars, which… Read More ›
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Attacks on foreign journalists in China cast shadow over Beijing’s upcoming Olympics
After promises during the 2008 Olympics, “[f]ew could have imagined the CCP stooping to the level of running campaigns against individual news reporters and outlets, resulting in harassment and death threats against foreign reporters,” writes William Nee. On July 20,… Read More ›
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Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
A couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about his reincarnation. Addressing the room of monks, religious teachers and Tibetan politicians, the Dalai Lama asked… Read More ›
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China orders one member of each Tibetan family to enlist in the military to fight against India
China has been hatching several conspiracies since its defeat on the eastern Ladakh border against India last year. Considering the fact that Tibetan youth can play a vital role in fighting India in the Himalayan mountains on the borders of… Read More ›
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China warns UK as carrier strike group approaches South China Sea
China has warned the UK’s Carrier Strike Group, led by the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth not to carry out any “improper acts” as it enters the contested South China Sea. ‘The People’s Liberation Army Navy is at a high… Read More ›
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China Has Reportedly Launched a Little Baby Version of the US X-37B Spaceplane
A Chinese aerospace manufacturer hailed a successful test flight of a new spaceplane that will broaden China’s reusable spaceflight capabilities. The unnamed craft reportedly takes off like a rocket and lands like an airplane, much like the U.S. Air Force’s… Read More ›
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China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
Beijing’s confrontation with Australia should have been an unequal contest. That’s not how it worked out in practice. “Chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.” That’s how Hu Xijin, the editor of the Chinese Communist Party–run Global Times,… Read More ›
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China looking at expropriating foreign-held tech shares
Those foreigners who hold shares in Chinese tech companies are being warned that all is not well. It is China expert Gordon Chang who explained at Gatestone Institute, where he is a distinguished senior fellow and a member of the… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia, July 26, 2021
While a typhoon largely evaded Taiwan over the weekend, tragedy struck the mainland. Shanghai faced flooding and death while India suffered a landslide in the Himalayas. In a shocking video, one boulder took out a bridge. Several people died. But,… Read More ›
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On This Day In Australia: In 1950, Australia announced they would send troops to the Korean War
Originally posted on Craig Hill:
Third Royal Australian Regiment Only five years after the end of the Second World War, Australia became involved in the Korean War. Personnel from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and… -
What have we learnt in the past century?
It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of Nations with the purpose of preventing such a conflict and slaughter happening again. Regrettably, the only… Read More ›
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China’s borders will likely remain shut for months, but some may be wary of visiting even after they reopen
Last week, the Biden administration warned American companies about the risk of doing business in Hong Kong, citing Beijing’s increasing crackdown on the city. “The bottom line is that businesses should be aware that the risks faced in mainland China… Read More ›
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China Threatens to Nuke Japan in ‘Full Scale’ War if They Intervene in Taiwan
In an ominous new video that was circulated by the Communist Party of China, they vow to use nuclear bombs on Japan “continuously until it’s unconditional surrender” in an all out war if they decide to intervene in China’s planned… Read More ›
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Afghanistan: No Peace Without a Clear Vision
Peace is the absence of war, while war is the absence of peace! A negotiated peace in Afghanistan presents a number of challenges. The duration of the war over several decades has created a number of situations, that requires an… Read More ›
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US-China rivalry rooted in lost trust
As early as 2005 John Gersham and Melvin Goodman alerted against the trend of an over-militarized US foreign policy. The warning has been a recurrent theme of American debate, although it gained little traction. The debate recently spilled into mainstream media… Read More ›
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Overnight News Headlines (Australia): July 20, 2021
Originally posted on Craig Hill:
Children account for 15 per cent of Australian farm deaths, says AgHealth study – 15 per cent of farm deaths are children under 14 years old, according to an AgHealth Australia study; A Ballarat farmer… -
China in the News: July 20, 2021
Ford unveils lower-priced Mustang Mach-E in China to qualify for subsidies – Previously, this was the only Mach-E priced low enough to qualify for China’s EV subsidies. It was joined by Extended Range RWD and AWD versions as well as… Read More ›
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Cadence Column: Asia, July 19, 2021
China faces a three-pronged attack in the realm of public opinion. The Olympics converge with COVID; the third is three levelings up in Chinese military aggression. COVID is seen in the public eye as having mainly originated from China. Even… Read More ›
Featured Categories
Defence & Aerospace ›
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The new US Air Force secretary wants to ‘scare China’
August 18, 2021
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China, Pakistan and their secret wars in Afghanistan
August 16, 2021
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Japan plans to deploy missiles in Taiwan in 2022 to counter China
August 5, 2021
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China warns UK as carrier strike group approaches South China Sea
July 30, 2021
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China Has Reportedly Launched a Little Baby Version of the US X-37B Spaceplane
July 29, 2021
Finance & Economy ›
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Government crackdown wipes $831 billion off Chinese tech stocks
July 8, 2021
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China’s slowing railway investment contributing to signs that economic growth is losing steam, analysts say
June 28, 2021
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Shanghai Extravagance, Silicon Valley Stoics, and US-China Agony
June 21, 2021
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New York Stock Exchange to delist Chinese telecoms firms
January 4, 2021
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EU’s sanity is the basis of the China-EU investment deal 2020
January 4, 2021
Human Rights & Social Issues ›
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Freshman year student goes to university with dementia grandma
August 26, 2021
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Jailed citizen journalist loses half her bodyweight in Chinese prison
August 24, 2021
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China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis
August 21, 2021
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China decides to engage with Afghanistan’s Taliban to further persecute Uyghurs
August 3, 2021
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Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
August 1, 2021
News ›
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Overnight News Headlines (Australia): July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
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China in the News: July 20, 2021
July 20, 2021
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Overnight News Headlines (Australia): July 19, 2021
July 19, 2021
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China in the News: July 19, 2021
July 19, 2021
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Overnight News Headlines (Australia): July 18, 2021
July 18, 2021
Politics & Law ›
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In Afghanistan, China is ready to step into the void
August 22, 2021
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Is democratic leadership as it should be?
August 20, 2021
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Chinese president vows to ‘adjust excessive incomes’ of super rich
August 19, 2021
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China finally realises the return of the Taliban poses more risk than it does opportunity
August 17, 2021
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China jails Canadian businessman Michael Spavor for 11 years on ‘spying’ charges
August 15, 2021
Trade & Investment ›
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China’s biggest private companies are in chaos. It’s all part of Beijing’s ‘plan’
August 5, 2021
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‘Made in China’ products are running into new international shipping problems
August 4, 2021
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China looking at expropriating foreign-held tech shares
July 27, 2021
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US sanctions Chinese solar firms for Uighur human rights abuses
June 24, 2021
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The G7 countries want to help poor countries with infrastructure, without the debt trap and strings China imposes
June 13, 2021
