Under the surface is a very different tale of the Ukrainian tensions
Campaign to paint Russia as aggressor is huge, but there are cracks
Putin placing troops on Ukrainian border is “no different to last year”
Ukrainian leader tells journalists that Russia isn’t the main problem, the press is
NATO has continuously broken promises made…
2022 Winter Games will be the greenest, most eco-friendly ever Robots and automation will keep athletes and visitors safe Viewers will be treated to 5G broadcasting and 8k high-definition China’s technology skills will be visible at multiple levels Hong Kong will need to learn from the event and follow suit
CHINESE NEW YEAR will…
FOREIGN VISITORS TO the Winter Olympics in China will be able to use the new “electric renminbi” to buy things—even if they don’t have a bank account in the country.
China’s digital currency is being gently rolled out to the public, local and foreign, in huge hunks of cash before a full launch at a…
GENERATING ENERGY? It’s a breeze—literally. China built more offshore wind capacity just in 2021 than the rest of the world managed in total over the past five years, Carbon Brief reported yesterday.
“Its 26 gigawatts now accounts for half of the world's 54 gw total,” said Simon Evans, deputy editor of the science publication. It's…
GUANGDONG PROVINCE NOW has a GDP of the same size or larger than Australia or Canada--and its growth story has only just begun.
China’s workshop region in the south of the country filed Gross Domestic Product figures on Thursday of 12.4 trillion yuan (US$1.95 trillion) for 2021.
Different charts put the top-performing places in different…
It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here.
HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…
GREAT ZEN MASTER Thich Nhat Hanh has just passed away at the age of 95. The news media is summing him up as “the father of mindfulness”, a spiritual exercise widely adopted in the secular world. But in Asia, and to those of us with long memories, he was much more than that.
Thich Nhat…
The widely reported narrative that Beijing tried to impose a law to snatch dissidents from Hong Kong in 2019 was never true
Peaceful demonstrators quickly fled the protests as they realized something dark, violent, and well-organized lay just below the surface
The media simply relayed stories and numbers they were given by one side,…
FOR 109 YEARS, since the Opium War in 1840, China has suffered foreign invasions, semi-colonialisation, extreme poverty, and demonisation. We toughed them out. With the founding of the new China in 1949, we drove out the last colonialists from our land. Since then no country has ever dared to invade us again. Rising from the…
MEDIA CREDIBILITY IS dying at high speed—and trust in liberal governments is following in tandem, according to a new major global survey.
Half of all respondents now view governments and media as “divisive forces in society”, said the huge study, which collected data from 36,000 respondents in 28 countries.
But public confidence in executive-led governments…