After three decades of a policy that limited most families in China to one child, the most significant overhaul of its family planning rules in over 35 years is not going as planned. Instead of welcoming the news, many families in China have said that one is enough, with many citing the rising cost of living ...
The most important subjects children can learn aren’t graded. Those lessons are in strong character and moral values, yet we seldom receive instruction. Here are some of the best gifts to help introduce those great lessons and build character in your children. Developing companionship For children, the warmest love comes from the companionship of parents. ...
Please go here for Part 1 On October 13, The Epoch Times published an article about how CCP officials rank first in the world for corruption over a billion dollars and listed five specific examples to illustrate the general phenomena of corrupt officialdom. Two cases were discussed in Part 1, and here in Part 2, we ...
By now, most people know that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become the most corrupt political entity in the world. How vast and how deep does the corruption of the CCP run? In these two articles, we discuss five specific cases to illustrate the greedy behavioral patterns and gluttonous habits of these entitled and ...
The life of Xuyun, the most eminent monk in modern China, is a legendary tale. He lived through five emperors of the Qing Dynasty and witnessed a century of upheaval and monumental changes caused by war in China. At the age of 112, Xuyun was severely beaten several times but miraculously survived and recovered, shocking ...
One does not just symbolically show support for Taiwan without the risk of antagonizing China. Or, more specifically, infuriating Beijing like Germany’s Parliamentary visit to Taiwan did recently, when a delegation of 6 German lawmakers met with Taiwan’s President Tsai-Ing Wen on Monday, October 3. The group from Germany arrived the day before and planned ...
Please go here for Part 1 From 2007 to 2012, when the now disgraced Bo Xilai was CCP Secretary of the municipality of Chongqing, he launched a massive “strike down” campaign. Under the pretext of suspected underworld crimes, he corruptly charged and arrested a group of private entrepreneurs and confiscated hundreds of billions of yuan ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has spent billions of dollars over the years pushing its narratives by various means through its multi-billion dollar media influence campaigns. Often, it’s done covertly, especially their trying to control how others cover China. In fact, such efforts have ramped up in the past few years according to a new ...
Everyone in the literary and nonacademic world is familiar with Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), usually referred to as Leo Tolstoy. He is affectionately known throughout the world simply as Tolstoy. The Russian author Tolstoy is considered one of the world’s greatest novelists. Gorky, another Russian writer, once said: “It is impossible to know Russia without ...
The poems by Zhuo Wenjun to her husband Sima Xiangru are legendary in Chinese history. Zhuo Wenjun, the daughter of an iron tycoon in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 25), is one of the best-known tales. Her story was recorded in both Shi Ji (Historical Records) by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty ...