Winning an Olympic medal is a major achievement for any athlete and it is a matter of pride for his or her country. Yet the Olympic Games are not only about winning medals. Two Japanese Olympians, Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Ōe, were pole vaulters who shared their medals, blazing a path for Olympic humility and ...
Recently, space exploration has expanded a bit more, with Taiwan’s space efforts being added to the list of countries that have either already set a mark in space or are starting their journey. Taiwan’s National Space Organization (NSO) head Wu Jong-shinn announced on August 24, 2021, that the Taiwanese government will finally begin working on ...
China has been accused by the U.S. and many European nations of carrying out clandestine digital surveillance using its underground network and technology companies, worldwide. A new report states that China’s digital surveillance program, the Golden Shield Project, is being powered by U.S. technology entities. The researchers say a handful of U.S. technology companies supply ...
Through several thousand years of history, the Chinese language has been enriched with phrases based on historical stories. These Chinese idioms have been passed down over the millennia and allow people to express profound meanings in just a few words. Here are some popular Chinese idioms based on the Chinese character for cow (牛). Chinese ...
When Confucius questions two magistrates, they perceive gain and loss very differently. Kong Mie was a nephew of Confucius, while Bi Zijian was a student. Both of them were magistrates of two different counties. One day, Confucius visited Kong Mie. On the way, he saw that many fields were deserted and overgrown with weeds. A group ...
A Chinese official during the Ming Dynasty had to make a wise decision regarding a goose. One day, a local farmer went to the city and brought along his goose. The farmer checked into an inn and left the goose with the innkeeper while he went out to conduct his business. Upon his return, the ...
This is an elegy written by Liu Dongsheng, expressing a son’s love for his mother. His mother had just died and he wrote the poem to express his thoughts and repentance — a son’s love for his mother. Although his mother was just an ordinary rural woman, she was his Jade Emperor in his emotional world. Unfortunately, ...
A recent study indicates that the pro-China amplification machine makes use of fake social media accounts, many of them impersonating Western citizens, to push Chinese government content while attacking those who criticize Beijing. Beijing is reportedly trying to spread pro-China propaganda supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its actions using social media networks. According ...
In the world of ancient Chinese philosophy, there was a Chinese warrior who was very arrogant and so rude that he often bullied his neighbors and they couldn’t live in harmony. One of his neighbors was a white-bearded elderly man who lived with his three sons. One day, the elderly man asked his three sons ...
July 1, 2021, marks the first anniversary of the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. Ching Cheong, a senior journalist with The Straits Times and current affairs commentator in Hong Kong, wrote a summary of the National Security Law’s five historical impacts on Hong Kong. Hong Kong was once a safe harbor ...
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