In the Qing Dynasty (1850-1876) during the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, there was a woman with great filial piety who looked after her mother-in-law. After a tragedy and a misunderstanding, she was accused of a terrible crime. Fortunately, thanks to the keen wisdom of a county magistrate, her case was resolved. In modern ...
As an international boycott of Huawei continues, the Huawei CEO has come forward and held a press conference to declare that they will never hand over any customer data to the Chinese government under any circumstances. However, many experts are not convinced by the official statements given that Beijing’s intelligence laws warn that companies unwilling ...
A delivery service from Taiwan, SF Express, has reignited the debate on the menace of Chinese authoritarianism after it refused to send books to Hong Kong that it deemed were “harmful to China’s politics, culture, and morality.” SF Express censorship The first person who reported the delivery’s refusal to send books was columnist Leung Man-tao. ...
There is a story of a centuries-old brick from the Great Wall. The Jiayuguan Pass in China’s northwest is one of the region’s most splendid landmarks, being part of the Great Wall in Gansu. In the time of the Silk Road, Jiayuguan was famous along the legendary Silk Road route that connected the two worlds ...
Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has adopted a stance that are no Chinese private companies that are free from Beijing’s control. Hence, FIRB is moving forward to treat all Chinese companies, whether they present themselves as private or not, as state-owned firms. The illusion of Chinese private companies A “private company” is an idea ...
When Hong Kong decided to unify with China under the “one country, two systems” rule, Beijing promised that it would respect the city’s culture and democratic values. But this seems to have been just another empty promise made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a bid to make the city a part of the ...
Xi Jinping wants to have the same “one country, two systems” arrangement for Taiwan that it has with Hong Kong. Just recently, China’s top leader Xi Jinping emphasized at the commemorative meeting of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Taiwan Compatriots, in Beijing, that he firmly opposed the two Chinas, one China, One ...
In Chinese society, there has been a saying: “Whenever there is a number 9, chaos is around the corner.” This is in alignment with the concept in Taoism of the interchange of Yin/Yang energy, that is to say: “When Yang reaches the peak, it turns into Yin, and when Yin reaches the peak, it turns ...
A new poll of Taiwanese citizens shows that more than four-fifths of the islanders have no interest in their country being unified with China under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy. The survey comes on the heels of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks that Beijing will use military force if required to make Taiwan a ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has implemented a strict Internet censorship policy in the country that prevents citizens from accessing foreign websites. As a result, many Chinese citizens have been using VPNs to bypass censorship and access the content they desire. But the CCP has started to heavily crack down on VPN users as it ...
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