THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below.
As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically…
There are 14 remarkable findings about China, Hong Kong, the US, free speech and elections, in the latest edition of the world's largest survey of democratic attitudes, which has just been released
CHINESE PEOPLE FEEL better democratically represented by their system of governance than citizens of any other nation feel about their own, a major…
There may be some truth in the stereotype of the geeky Chinese student, skilled at science and mathematics
China is producing three graduates in science and engineering fields for every two in America, a study showed.
The students are focusing on aeronautics, drones, space exploration, and a home-grown GPS system
THE PICTURE AT the top…
YURI GAGARIN, the first man in space, is believed to have said that exploration “is not the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process that humanity carries out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.”
In terms of exploring the heavens, Chinese people might be…
There are a huge number of good things you can say about the United States—and of course there are bad things too. Exactly the same is true about China. Yet the world’s most populous country is harshly and relentlessly criticized by the U.S. for shortcomings that are actually more prevalent in America. Jerry Grey reports.…
SMILE PLEASE! Archeologists have found toothbrushes more than a thousand years old – and they are remarkably similar to modern ones. They had the same shape, although were made of bone, not plastic. And instead of the nylon brushes of today’s equivalents, the ancient ones had hog bristles. There were different varieties, just like today.…
THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers.
The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…
China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…
LADIES, WOULD YOU consider marrying a younger man? Yes please, say Hong Kong women. Thousands of them have been going north into Mainland China to find younger males to wed. The border closures have halted the process, but demographers expect it to restart before the end of the year. The bride-older-than-groom trend, rare across…