The Later Yan (384-407 or 409) was a Murong–Xianbei state, located in modern-day northeast China, during the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms in China. All rulers of the Later Yan declared themselves “emperors”. The Northern Wei was a dynasty founded… Read More ›

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2025: End Game China – The Balkinization
”Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones.” – Chinese President Xi Jinping on a state visit to Nepal in Oct 2019. The above statement clearly indicates the nervousness of… Read More ›
Pneumonic Plague is diagnosed in China
Two cases of the fatal and highly infectious illness, which is related to bubonic plague, were found in Beijing, prompting fears of an outbreak. Two people in China were diagnosed with plague, setting off a panic on Tuesday about the… Read More ›
China can’t kick its coal habit despite Beijing’s big climate pledges
On the coal-rich plains of Inner Mongolia, thick white smoke curls from the huge chimney of a thermal coal power plant which the Chinese Communist Party had pledged to stop constructing two years ago. The huge Mengneng Xilin Thermal Power… Read More ›
China ‘UFO’ may have been the fourth of China’s midcourse ICBM interception tests
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: China Review News Agency says in its report that in the evening of May 23, web users in Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and other provinces witnessed a… Read More ›
China Secretly Conducts Second Flight Test Of New Ultra High-Speed Missile
China recently conducted the second flight test of a new, ultra-high-speed missile that is part of what analysts say is Beijing’s global system of attack weapons capable of striking the United States with nuclear warheads. The latest test of the… Read More ›
China’s anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas
A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China’s plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond. The problem is worst in northern China,… Read More ›
China’s anti-graft storm begins in earnest
Since Bo Xilai was given the verdict of life imprisonment, China’s mass line campaign has been developing into an anti-corruption campaign. On September 24, Reuters reported that China would audit military officials in a move to fight graft. On September… Read More ›
China to cut coal use and shut polluters in bid to clear the air
China unveiled comprehensive new measures to tackle air pollution on Thursday, with plans to slash coal consumption and close polluting mills, factories and smelters, but experts said implementing the bold targets would be a major challenge. China has been under… Read More ›
China: DF-21C aircraft carrier killer missiles show their strengh in Gobi Desert
PLA Pictorial: Draw your bow for shooting on a horse in the vast desert, a great general once said. In midsummer, a certain unit of the Second Artillery Corps went fully out with all its equipment to the Gobi Desert…. Read More ›
India-China ties under new Chinese leadership
China, which already has a new party leadership since the Party Congress in November last, will be having a new State leadership from next month. Xi Jinping, who took over as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China… Read More ›
China’s bloggers must use real names under proposed law
New legislation governing the internet, which officials claim is aimed at combating online vigilantes and privacy breaches, is proving controversial on the mainland because it will require bloggers and bulletin board users to register using their real names. Many internet… Read More ›
Change of guard, but no change in policy; an in-depth analysis from India
It is undeniable that the transfer of power to the fifth generation leadership at the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been smooth and orderly; especially the rule providing for the retirement of cadres above the age… Read More ›
Radioactive coal ash from mines near uranium deposits falls on China cities
Huge newly discovered reserves of much-needed uranium are in danger of being destroyed amid a row over digging it up. And as China‘s nuclear and coal sectors battle over the sites where the radioactive heavy metal lies buried, experts say… Read More ›
China’s bloggers ridicule congress delegates’ sycophantic speeches
Self-important party delegates attending the national congress have become the target of ridicule online on the mainland blogosphere. Some delegates, while discussing a report delivered by party chief Hu Jintao when the congress began on Thursday, were criticised for sycophantic… Read More ›
China boasts of ‘world-class’ uranium deposit discovery, but experts wary
SCMP reports: “Nuclear industry experts remain wary of China‘s grand claims for the Inner Mongolia reserve, saying there have been exaggerations in the past “China announced the discovery of a “world-class” uranium deposit in Inner Mongolia yesterday but kept its… Read More ›
China’s reserve of talented leaders: Hu Chunhua
Hu Chunhua, 49, is regarded as a rising star who may be Xi Jinping’s successor 10 years later. He is now party boss of Inner Mongolia. When he attended NPC (China’s legislature) meeting last March, he showed his populist side… Read More ›
China moves long-missing Mongolian dissident to “luxury resort”
China has moved a prominent ethnic Mongolian rights activist to a “luxury resort”, a rights group said on Thursday, in the first account of his whereabouts in more than a year since he was put under house arrest. Hada, who… Read More ›