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 ›
Month: December 2020
China and Iran start drilling in this super giant gas field
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 ›
China in the News: December 31, 2020
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 ›
December 30, 2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China
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 ›
2020 – A year when distancing became social
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 ›
China in the News: December 30, 2020
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 ›
December 29, 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China
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 ›
China jails journalist for four years over Wuhan coronavirus reporting
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 ›
China in the News: December 29, 2020
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 ›
Cadence Column: Asia, December 28, 2020
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 ›
December 28, 1931 – Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China
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 ›
Of BREXIT and all that
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 ›
China in the News: December 28, 2020
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 ›
December 27, 683 – Death of Gaozong of Tang, of the Chinese Tang dynasty
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 in China facing winter power blackouts, rationing
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 ›
China in the News: December 27, 2020
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 ›
December 26, 1893 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), was born in Shaoshan, Hunan
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 ›
Living antifascism: There is no health without freedom
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 ›
China in the News: December 26, 2020
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 ›
December 25, 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people
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 struggles to keep the lights on amid sky-high demand
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 ›
China in the News: December 25, 2020
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 ›
What new institutions do we need for a new international green deal to be feasible?
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 ›
China’s green NGO climate propaganda enablers
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 ›
December 24, 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di
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 ›
US blacklists Chinese companies including SMIC
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 ›
What do Chinese people think about developed countries?
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 suspends flights from United Kingdom
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 ›
China in the News: December 24, 2020
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 ›
December 23, 1852 – 1st Chinese theatre in US, the Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
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 ›
Claim: China’s Covid-19 recovery is not green enough
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 ›
Today’s News About China – December 23, 2020
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 ›
December 22, 880 – Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong
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 ›
Chinese embargo of high quality Australian coal is increasing CO2 emissions
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 ›
China suffering mass blackouts following Australian coal embargo
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 ›
Today’s News About China – December 22, 2020
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 ›
December 21, 1942: Birth of Hu Jintao, 5th paramount leader of China
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 ›
Cadence Column: Asia, December 21, 2020
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 ›
Today’s News About China: December 21, 2020
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 ›
December 20, 1999 – Macau is handed over to China by Portugal
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 ›
Foreign investors in China face security review
Foreign investors in Chinese industries from defense to tech will from next year face an extra layer of scrutiny to ensure their activities do not undermine national security, the country’s top economic planner said Saturday. Under the new rules, overseas… Read More ›
Today’s News About China – December 20, 2020
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Chinese and Russian vaccines remain unproven — but desperate countries plan to use them anyway Trump Signs Bill That Could Remove Chinese Stocks From U.S. Taiwan’s planned submarine fleet could… Read More ›
December 19, 1984 – Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China
In the Hall of the People in Beijing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement committing Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of… Read More ›
Reds and Greens: China’s useful idiots sing the praises of the world’s largest polluter
Environmental NGOs like Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, being dupes or worse, sing the praises of the world’s largest polluter. Two decades ago, most economists — including me — believed that as a country became… Read More ›
Today’s News About China: December 19, 2020
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Trump Signs Bill That Could Remove Chinese Stocks From U.S. Trump signs bill that could kick Chinese firms off U.S. stock exchanges Trump’s ‘America First’ policies leave Biden with major… Read More ›
December 18, 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire “Yuan”, marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China
As Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai reigned from 1260 to 1294 over one fifth of the world’s inhabited land area. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan, the founder and first great leader of the Mongol Empire. If… Read More ›
China to expand its fleet of coal power plants by 10%
The future of coal looks like an ice cream truck parked half a kilometer down a mine shaft in China’s Shanxi province. The yellow and white vehicle is equipped with a 5G router from Huawei Technologies Co. to gather data… Read More ›
December 17, 1996 – Sun Yaoting, China’s last known eunuch, died
Sun Yaoting died on December 17, 1996. He was the last surviving imperial eunuch of Chinese history. Generally, a eunuch is a man who has been castrated to serve a specific social function. n China, castration included removal of the… Read More ›
China has more than 100 journalists behind bars amid ‘total control’ of media
China was among the world’s biggest jailers of journalists in 2020, continuing a pattern of total state control over the media begun under ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “core” leader Xi Jinping. “China, which arrested several journalists for their coverage… Read More ›
Today’s News Headlines About China: December 17, 2020
All the latest Chinese news headlines from around the world. Chaos at the top of China’s biggest chipmaker China’s Top Chipmaker Slides After Co-CEO Abruptly Quits SMIC Management Team Undergoes Shakeup – Yet Again China Charges Hong Kong Activists Caught… Read More ›
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