Military tensions, cyber espionage accusations, a brewing currency war; with every passing day, the headlines paint a convincing portrait of an emerging cold war between China and the West. But is this…
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via Mother Jones: In a surprise announcement Tuesday night, the world’s two biggest economies and greenhouse gas emitters, United States and China, said they will partner closely on a broad-ranging package of…
via Space Daily: China will build a global quantum communication network by 2030, said a leading Chinese quantum physicist on Sunday. “China’s quantum information science and technology is developing very fast and…
好哇！ Jon Queally writes at Common Dreams: In a world increasingly populated by drone aircraft, systems designed to counter such machines are increasingly on the mind of world governments. Weapon developers in…
Abby Martin discusses the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, highlighting the long history of tension between mainland China and the autonomous region and how China is responding to mass protests in the…
Well this is one way to make your restaurant’s noodles completely addictive! From South China Morning Post (h/t Oginikwe, who thought y’all might be interested in this since we are importing so much of our…
via Business Insider: BEIJING, China — The Islamic State is flush with cash, territorially ambitious and eager for recognition. But is IS a threat to China? That’s been a question on foreign…
Exploitation at its finest. Even if the Chinese don’t see it that way, it certainly is. via The Guardian: The Dwarf Empire – or, to give it its full name, The World Eco…
Remember the cult killing in a Chinese McDonald’s by members of the Church of the Almighty God? The Economist examines the history of “cults” in China in light of this recent crime. via The Economist:…
[disinfo ed.’s note: The following is excerpted from China’s Cosmological Prehistory: The Sophisticated Science Encoded in Civilization’s Earliest Symbols by Laird Scranton] Integral to both the plan of the ancient Chinese city…
There is no other place in the world that can ease my anxiety or release my troubled mind than the cinema. There’s something special about watching a film on a large screen…
I guess refusing to give out your phone number makes you a demon. via BBC: China is about to try one of the most notorious murders in recent memory. In late May…
via Bloomberg News: More than 150 people suspected of economic crimes from China remain at large in the U.S., China Daily said yesterday, as officials pledge to step up efforts to hunt down those…
Last week, a river in Wenzhou that was once considered to be clean enough to drink from mysteriously turned bright red. Via Tech Times: The river is located at Wenzhou, a popular town…
Well, at least this isn’t as traumatizing as waking up from surgery to find your penis gone. via Science World Report: Mr. Chen headed to the hospital when he started having a severe stomach ache,…
After my cowardly run-in with a cockroach this morning (I screamed like a child, while sending my boyfriend in a bug catching frenzy), I can certifiably say, I hope I never meet…
Cough. Cough. Cough. STICK. Cough. Cough. Add another drawback to acupuncture: possible infection with primary inoculation tuberculosis. That does not sound good. A new paper is published showing a correlation of acupuncture…
Not to make light of the loss of life here, but I sincerely doubt that the cell phone was even going to work after falling into an open-pit toilet. If it did, would…
You may have read my last piece about thorium nuclear energy. If so you know the insanely real capability existing thorium technology has to overhaul energy production not just in the US…
Is Detroit the canary in the coal mine, warning of an impending influx of Chinese land lords? Is it a bad thing? Are these people really even “communists?” Via Detroit Free Press:…
Apparently her husband had forgiven her after she cut off his penis. Then she came back and cut off the rest of his genitals. Via UPI During the first incident, Zhang reportedly…
Today’s waking nightmare via Your Jewish News: A 61-year-old man named Zou of Beijing, China, had to undergo emergency surgery to remove 42 pearls that were embedded in his body for years…
Is this a sign that China is becoming a nation with a legal system that can actually protect its citizens against oppressive government? Suing the Chinese government could have been a one…
Well. This isn’t good. Needless to say, the Pentagon isn’t happy about the Captain’s public remarks, but that doesn’t make them any less likely to be true. China and Japan have been…
The New York Times has a short film exploring life inside one of China’s hundreds of boot-camp-style treatment centers for electronics-addled youth who spend night and day gaming online, in some cases allegedly wearing diapers to avoid taking bathroom breaks. The camp director compares the internet to “electronic heroin” and warns that the teens “know the internet inside and out, but nothing about human beings.”
Questions abound: Is China at the forefront of what will become a global epidemic of Compulsive Internet Use? Are computers being scapegoated for problems that are in fact more subtle and complex? Could you survive several months cold turkey?