Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary-General of NATO, has said that the organization is carefully monitoring China’s growing presence in the Arctic. Beijing has been investing heavily in the region, as it contains huge reserves of oil, gas, and other mineral deposits. Arctic ambitions In an interview with CNBC, Stoltenberg said that NATO has to assess the ...
Jung Chang, who was born during the tumultuous period, witnessed the horrors of the Cultural Revolution firsthand and later wrote a book that became a global bestseller — Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. In the 1960s, Chairman Mao Zedong of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a movement to uproot capitalism and traditionalism from ...
China’s repressive policies against the Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang are getting labeled as state-sanctioned racism. Zhao Lijian, the deputy chief of mission for the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, wanted to counter this through tweets from his Twitter account. But instead of providing proof that Beijing is not torturing the Uyghurs, Zhao tried to justify the ...
Loneliness is a growing problem across the world. But in China, the government’s unnatural one-child policy of the past decades has exacerbated the problem. Many experts feel that China will soon become the world’s loneliest place, beating neighbor Japan. Karaoke A 2017 study of about 10,000 Chinese people found that almost 25 percent of those ...
Ghana has taken strict steps to curb the illegal trade of rosewood trees since 2012. However, this has not stopped China from illegally acquiring rosewood from the African nation, as revealed in a recent report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Ghana’s loss “Since 2012, over 540,000 tons of rosewood — the equivalent of 23,478 ...
China is seeing a big resurgence in public interest in traditional Chinese medicine. Modern medicine (allopathy) is thought to be less holistic when compared to centuries-old traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). As such, there are attempts to combine the two medical systems to create the best of both worlds. Traditional Chinese medicine According to TCM, a ...
Slavery is said to be a system that belonged to the past. Countries across the world have condemned it and made slavery a punishable offense. But in China, slave labor camps prosper with the blessings of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ‘Four Corners’ exposé of China’s forced labor camps Four Corners, a program broadcast by ...
China has ordered hotels that serve halal food in Beijing to remove any Arabic or Islamic symbols if they wish to continue operating in the city. The new order is part of a broader policy for Islamic sinicization in China. Sinicization of Islamic culture The owners of the restaurants were told by the local authorities ...
I-Space has become the first company from China to successfully launch satellites into orbit. Previously, Chinese companies like LandSpace and OneSpace tried to launch satellites, but they failed. Into space The rocket, Hyperbola-1, measures 65.6 feet in length and was designed by I-Space. After launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia, the ...
The education culture in China is relatively stressful for children. Right from a young age, children are pressured into several activities designed to get them into good schools, colleges, and eventually, a great job. However, many parents are choosing nowadays to move away from this typical rat race and opt for Waldorf schools, which emphasize ...
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