KUALA LUMPUR: When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Malaysia in April, the symbolism was overpowering. It was Mr Xi’s first visit to Malaysia in 12 years; his last, in 2013, had seen both countrie...
09.12.2025 Channelnewsasia.com and 1 sitesR emarkable success notoriously brings its own problems. Wild Swans, first published in 1991 and written by Jung Chang with the help of her husband, Irish-born historian and writer Jon Halliday, had a...
09.15.2025 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesIn March 2000, a package from the U. S. Congress arrived at Shanghai's Fudan University. Inside was an American flag that had flown over the Capitol — sent as a gesture of appreciation for Xie Xide, t...
09.13.2025 Wuft.org and 60 sitesIn a world increasingly driven by technology and green energy, a seemingly obscure group of 17 metallic elements known as rare earths has quietly become one of the most critical resources on the plane...
09.16.2025 Thedailystar.net and 1 sites“So we won the First World War, ” said President Trump. “We won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between. And then we decided to go woke, and we changed the name to Department of Defense. ” Trump spoke those words last week in announcing that, henceforth, the Defense Department would be called the War Department, its name from 1789 until the National Security Act changed it in 1949. The Korean War — America’s first “forever war” — broke out within months of the establis...
09.16.2025 Yahoo.com“He [Mao] said that for all his projects to take off, maybe half of China would have to die. That incredible evil was a great shock to me. ” Credit: Antonio Olmos/Guardian / eyevine/Headpress Save Log...
09.12.2025 Smh.com.au and 2 sitesAs China commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, it does so with a profound sense of historical reckoning. From a nation once mired in poverty, rural backwardness, ...
09.12.2025 Punchng.com and 1 sitesA Chinese military band takes part in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing’ s Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. [AFP] Parades,...
09.14.2025 Standardmedia.co.ke54 In today’s China, ideology no longer marches through the streets. It slips seamlessly into citizens’ daily lives through algorithms, mobile apps, and AI-powered technologies. What began as Mao zedo...
09.16.2025 World-today-news.com and 1 sitesThe recent military parade in China and US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Department of Defense have created a spectre of heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington, while also raising fears about global peace and secu...
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