CHINA, BRAZIL, AND several other countries this week became legal guardians of the creatures of the High Seas. Leave that giant squid alone!
But the United States and Russia declined to sign to join them.
After 20 years of legal tinkering, the United Nations this weekend launched can international agreement to protect marine life—and the…

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“SELL US WEAPONS parts we need to make missiles and drones to use against you.” A bizarre argument is running in East Asia. Japan’s war-thirsty new leader Sanae Takaichi announced her country would remilitarize and threatened to go to war with China.
Then came an “oops” moment. Takaichi seemed to have not realized that to…
BREAKING NEWS: The number of opioid deaths in the US and Canada fell dramatically as the Chinese government took action to make life difficult for international drug labs, scientists discovered.
Deaths were rising to huge numbers before “the trend began to sharply reverse in mid-2023, dropping the annual rate of fentanyl overdose deaths by over…
A young law student from Hong Kong took a working journey deep into mainland China’s Shanxi province. Tang Chun-man found extraordinary reminders of the country’s dramatic history – but he also found himself taking an internal journey to gain an appreciation of two legal systems, different in many ways, but both grounded in the universal…
WEST’S REAL CRISIS IS ENERGY, NOT POLITICS
THE NATIONS of southeast Asia are about to follow China in overtaking the United States and Europe in modern electrification, a new study showed.
China already overtook the OECD, a club of mostly rich western nations, in 2015, but the rest of the region is following suit,…
CHINA BROUGHT A GIFT to the United Nations’ 80th General Assembly session yesterday: soil and rocks from "the dark side of the moon”.
It was powerfully symbolic.
The country was as poor as the least developed African nations in the 1960s, when the super-rich US was making its pioneering voyages to the moon—but China has…
SCIENTISTS ARE IN SHOCK today after the discovery of a million-year-old early human skull in China.
The finding of the Homo longi (“dragon man”) skull in China will force a re-examination of long-held beliefs about the journey of modern humanity across the world, from its roots in the Australopithicine proto-humans which originated from Africa.…
1. National Day is not a day – it’s a week. It starts on National Day, 1st of October, but the State Council adds another six days of holiday to turn it into Golden Week in the Mainland China.
2. Many people wrongly believe that the first National Day was Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the…
‘U.S. Department of war’ is a more honest title—and that is proved by the extraordinary story of a forgotten 1964 letter from China
TLDR SUMMARY: The world knows the importance of the nuclear “no first use” pledge but forgets that only two countries signed it, neither of which are in the west
IN 1964,…
IF AN ENEMY ATTACKS, the Chinese will defend their nation with the East Wind, a hurricane of power that will destroy his ship.
Then from the waters will rise a Giant Wave. And from the skies will fall a Sudden Thunderbolt.
If any enemies survive to continue their assault, a Cloud Arrow and a fire…
