Se Hoon Kim, a Korean-American student who hails from New Jersey and a graduate student at the University of Rochester, is a regular participant and co-ordinator of events and activities related to human rights abuses in China. Leading up to the time of every upcoming event, Kim would regularly encounter obstruction and intimidation tactics from ...
This is part one of a two-part series on human rights advocate Se Hoon Kim. Se Hoon Kim, a graduate student, is a regular participant, as well as a coordinator of many conferences and seminars related to human rights abuses in China. He was confronted by a group of mainland Chinese students on the campus ...
The street singer, still holding his guitar, calmly answered a few questions from the police, and then smiled and asked the onlookers to sing together. The bald policeman standing opposite the street singer pointed at the street singer, trying to intimidate him to not sing again. The street singer ignored him. He started to play ...
Chinese electric car battery maker CATL has signed a US$4.7 billion deal with German car manufacturer BMW to build an electric car battery manufacturing plant in the European nation to service its next generation of electric cars. The move also underlines China’s growing ambitions to dominate Europe’s electric car industry. CATL’s electric car battery manufacturing ...
An ordinary Hong Kong youth, a quiet street singer, probably did not appear in the parades or rallies during the Hong Kong anti-extradition movement. He was neither a hard nor a soft anti-extradition bill protester. He just played his guitar and sang songs in the street. He used his songs and music to express his ...
The communist takeover of China ended centuries of traditional Chinese lifestyle, bringing about new thoughts and social systems in the country. As a result, modern Chinese society is more a reflection of communist values than traditional values. So what would a traditional Chinese lifestyle look like? The traditional Chinese family The one important thing that ...
Since last year, the song Glory to Hong Kong has become the unofficial anthem of the pro-democracy protesters in the city. After the National Security Law was implemented in Hong Kong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an outright ban was announced against singing the Hong Kong protest song in schools and public areas. Despite ...
Mr. Jones is a 2019 movie directed by Agnieszka Holland based on the life of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who exposed Soviet Russia’s manmade famine in 1933 that ended up killing millions of Ukrainians. Starring James Norton in the title role, the movie is a stark reminder of the dangers of communism and authoritarian rule. ...
In the early 1970s, the United States and China engaged in a series of ping-pong matches that eventually became a trigger for both nations to come to amicable terms. The event, known as “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” is one of the few instances in world history when a sporting event has been used by two nations to ...
“Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.” — Georg Solti It was the summer before my third-grade year, while I was visiting family in Morgantown, West Virginia, that my aunt Veronica sat down to play the ...