Tesla recently opened an electric car showroom in China’s Xinjiang territory, a move criticized by a manufacturing group and a U.S. lawmaker, making Tesla the latest American company to face scrutiny over its ties to a region where the Chinese government has allegedly detained scores of Uyghurs and other minority groups. On its official Weibo ...
The Beijing Winter Olympics begins on Feb. 4. It’s probably the most controversial Olympics since, well, the last time the Olympics were held in the same city, back in 2008 with the Summer Games. Back then, the Games’ supporters — and many of those making money in China — said the 2008 event would help ...
Recently, China made a mockery of the British origin spy franchise James Bond by releasing a spoof video. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua mocked MI6 by releasing the spoof video containing a character named James Pond. This is a deliberate attempt at mocking the very popular spy depicted in the 007 films, James Bond. ...
The motivation for Xian Baokang to become a master craftsman came from witnessing the Red Guards’ destruction of a precious and priceless Italian violin that belonged to his mother during a raid on the Xian family’s home during the Cultural Revolution in China. The violin that was wantonly destroyed was more than 300 years old. ...
The COVID pandemic has brought unprecedented changes in human life. People are now being compelled to spend more time at home than ever before, regardless of their jobs and locations. While the COVID pandemic has led to several complications in life, children are faring worse than adults. Children do not have many options for playing ...
“Sorry! My husband is deaf…” This is what Xian Baokang’s wife said to the judges of the 13th Violin Society of America (VSA) International Competition listening on the other end of the phone. The people she was speaking to could hardly believe their ears and kept passing the phone back and forth with everyone asking: “What? ...
The movie Matrix 4 came out on the big screens during Christmas. Recalling the first Matrix movie, the concept of humans living in a metaverse world made by machines and are simply used as energy sources is quite disturbing. However, after walking out of the cinemas, it wasn’t hard to put the concept behind us. ...
In a remote coastal town in East London, South Africa, there lived a couple named George and Helen. George worked long hours on a vineyard in the north end of town every day, while Helen, who was pregnant with their child, stayed at home to rest. Who could ever foretell the amazing fate when two ...
North Korea is taking steps to boost its military power. The country has over 60 nuclear weapons and it keeps on testing missiles from time to time. UN Security Council sanctions and denuclearization summits notwithstanding, the rogue country keeps developing and testing ballistic missiles. The U.S. and its close allies think of North Korea as ...
The growth of China’s military might has made governments in several countries worried and the U.S. cannot take it lightly, for sure. Reports of China developing a hypersonic missile and actually launching a hypersonic missile have been making the rounds and it is worrying U.S. military experts. It is likely that China’s President Xi Jinping ...
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