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Tufts U. to Shut Down Confucius Institute After Student Protests 7 Apr 2021 Tufts University in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, has announced that it will shut down its Confucius Institute in the wake of student protests. The university, however, said it is ending the Confucius Institute to “focus more on our strong and growing direct relationship” with Beijing Normal University. Student protesters attacked the school’s “shameful collaboration between the university administration an...

CHINA / POLITICS In retrospect, CPC’s 100-years eradicating extreme poverty valuable tips for developing regions: experts By GT staff reporters Published: Apr 06, 2021 10:03 PM Individual and collective model poverty fighters are honored during a grand gathering that is held to mark the countrys accomplishments in poverty alleviation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 25. Photo: Xinhua In a white paper issued Tuesday, China has detailed its rich experience in poverty al...

March 02, 2021 Ruoxis mother found her daughter, then 6, lying on the sofa when she got back home after work one day. The daughter had a fever, refused to eat dinner, cried in a silent way and said she would not go to school the next day. The mother then learned that due to Ruoxis poor performance on a Chinese exam, her teacher had yelled at her and threatened to expel her from school. Ruoxi was frightened. She had studied hard daily until about 9 pm as a grade-one student but achieved low grad...

Belt and Road boost sustainable development Recently, media commentary emerging from European countries suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sharp reduction of Chinese investment in economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. Some people continue to express concern over a perceived debt issue, while others sought to highlight that coal-fired power plants are being built under the BRI framework. To be sure, there are others who have taken cognizance of the new economic ...

When Mao Zedong stood on Tiananmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas.   "Poverty is not socialism," "socialism means eliminating poverty," and "we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform," said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of Chinas reform and op...

Poor air quality can dampen childhood spirit February 10, 2021 Study finds pollution can increase stress, reduce self-esteem in children The toll that air pollution takes on a person’s physical health is well documented. But new University of Georgia research suggests there could be another price too: a child’s drive to be successful. UGA researchers investigated noncognitive traits — patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors — in adolescents who lived in areas of concentrated air po...

Student from Ghana soaks up culture in Shenyang By Wu Yong in Shenyang | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-21 17:14 Share CLOSE Timothy Laryea, an international student from Ghana, West Africa, recently recorded the Zhongjie Street in Shenyang, Liaoning province, with his video camera to share a bit of authentic China with people in his hometown. "I love Zhongjie Street very much. Not only do I eat and play there, I also want to shoot a ...

Could Climate Interventions Slow the Melting of the Cryosphere? By John Moore - 15 December 2020 This blog is based on a new free to access paper published in the forthcoming special issue of Global Policy, edited by C2G. To access the full article, click here. The ice sheets, sea ice and permafrost provide little direct economic benefit to nation states, despite their importance for Arctic indigenous peoples. But they do provide extremely important features that enable the present climate ...

China is thus arguably the modern erau2019s first u201chybridu201d superpower: a global leader that does not yet have a fully advanced economy.