Nation needs to mobilize its soft power resources to win more hearts Kung fu, pandas or Peking Opera are what one would commonly associate with China – but they are also vital cogs in a…
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An inspection of antiques reflected in a mirror of an antique French wardrobe. Western furniture is getting increasingly popular in China. The number of Chinese browsing for antiques in UK auction houses is also growing…
Report: China Surpassed U.S. in 2010 While the IMF forecasts that China will surpass America as the world’s top economy in 2016, it may have already become dog top. As Arvind Subramanian – former assistant director in the Research…
Politicians in the United States must ritualistically assert that the U.S. is and always will be the world’s leading economic, military and political power. This chant may help win elections in a country where respectable…
The Times reports that the United Arab Emirates has shut down the offices of the National Democratic Institute, a nonprofit U.S. agency whose mission is to promote democracy around the globe. The NDI is often called an NGO,…
Chinese police have arrested six people and shut 16 websites after rumours were spread that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. Without factual verification, such unsubstantiated internet rumour has gone viral internationally as…
A man fastens a bamboo rope to a tree during the water-releasing ceremony at Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation project in Southwest China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday. The project was built in 256 BC by…
In honor of the memory of the uprising on JeJu Island on April 3, 1948 known as 4.3, several people held a silent performance in the Columbus Circle area of New York City. The purpose of…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, surrounded by Gulf leaders on 1 April in Istanbul during the second conference of “Friends” of Syria. On March 21, 2012 the UN Security Council unanimously (all 15 members)…
The housing recovery seems to have been a temporary affair. Preliminary data frames March as weak as last October. It looks like lower interest rates boasted sales. Those rates are up from 4.72% to 5.02%….