A NEW FACE just grabbed the title of Richest Person on the Planet—and he was lifted into that spot by Mrs Chinese Taitai.
Taitai is a Hong Kong term for middle or upper class ladies, roughly equivalent to the western term “ladies who lunch”.
And the man is Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH—who has suddenly…
Taiwan has been invaded – and this is not clickbait. The Chinese island really has been invaded: by the United States.
An invasion is when troops from one country get their boots on and go violate agreements in another country.
And Greater China is one country. The One China principle has been accepted for decades,…
HONG KONG IS QUIETLY making deep connections to both Mainland China and the wider world to secure its future.
The city is:
Testing next-generation Chinese government digital currency for use in cross-border payments; Gathering mainland currency to a level of almost one trillion renminbi; Issuing bonds for China’s stand-out performers, such as Shenzhen and Hainan…
THE UNIVERSITIES OF Greater China will lead the world of education in the coming century, if they can continue to collaborate internationally, a top Harvard professor said yesterday at a forum organized by Our Hong Kong Foundation.
The concept of modern universities began in Germany, but that country was overtaken by the United States in…
THE LEADER OF Bolivia said it didn't want interference in its lithium deals from the destabilizers of democracy – the United States.
“We don't want our lithium to be in the [U.S. military] Southern Command's crosshairs, nor do we want it to be a reason for destabilizing democratically elected governments or foreign harassment,” said Bolivian…
NEGOTIATIONS ARE TAKING place for talks between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Europeans are upbeat. “We very much hope that the phone call will take place as soon as possible,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told CNBC this week.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a supporter of the peace…
IT'S EVERY ACTOR'S dream to be in a hugely successful movie franchises such as John Wick and Star Wars.
But when Donnie Yen sees the scripts for such movies, he sighs.
You can probably guess what he tends to see, even in big budget productions with the highest paid writers and producers on board. For…
A HUGE DINOSAUR that makes a giraffe look small roamed northwest China 160 million years ago, scientists said yesterday.
The massive beast had an enormous neck and would have weighed about 70 tons.
The news came from a new analysis of bones found in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 1987. Scientists realized they were…
BREAKING NEWS: China brokered a surprise peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Representatives of the estranged Middle Eastern nations emerged from a meeting in Beijing with an agreement to reopen embassies and other long-severed ties.
"This is a victory for dialogue, a victory for peace, offering major good news at a time of…
TOP INTELLECTUALS IN THE U.S. stood up this week to speak out for China—and demand a stop to the powerful militaristic country’s drive to start an unnecessary war in East Asia.
The White House claim this week that they did not want conflict with China is “Denial and information distortion bordering on propaganda,” said Stephen…
