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China's indoctrination in state elementary schools (and beyond) is a worthy subject of study, and was recently explored in a three-part series looking at Chinese history books.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

If yesterday was typical, about 1,400 children in Africa died of malaria. It is a preventable, treatable disease, and the young victims lost their lives through no faults of their own. Why it is that human beings accept a fact like this as an unremarkable daily event, whereas one murder can grab a headline, is an awkward question. And it raises related questions: Why, for

Since the Tiananmen Square killings it has become fashionable within the Chinese leadership to refer to dissident intellectuals as “scum.” That was Mao’s view, too. In 1942, the chairman, his armies besieged by both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army, took time off for zheng-feng, or rectification movement, in which he laid down rules for “unclean” Chinese authors.

Partnerships between Indonesian and Chinese research institutes are an increasingly prominent part of Beijings soft power strategy to improve its image in the country.

Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?

Partnerships between Indonesian and Chinese research institutes are an increasingly prominent part of Beijing’s “soft power” strategy. Is it working?

ASPI's Center for China Analysis Senior Fellow Chris Johnson writes about Xi Jinping's challenges in 2022 and how he is still predicted to continue as China's top leader after the 20th Party Congress.

It is difficult to say with any certainty how China would have evolved had Zhao Ziyang not been overthrown in 1989. The ostensible cause of his purge was his refusal to endorse martial law and authorize the use of force to suppress the Tiananmen demonstrations (thus “splitting the Party”)—but even before that fateful Politburo meeting and his final public appearance in the

A temple which, in my opinion, is the best in the city but one that surprisingly few people know about or visit, which only adds to its charm. So I give this recommendation at the risk of destroying that peaceful seclusion.