Tag Archives: China

Taiwan’s ban on mainland Chinese social media app RedNote has sparked fierce pushback on the island, making the platform a top download as users rush to access it through workarounds. The island’s interior ministry announced on Thursday it had ordered local telecoms and internet providers to block access to the app, also known as Xiaohongshu, for one year over “rising …

The US Congress is readying votes on a sprawling bill that would restrict US outbound investment to China in sensitive sectors as well as federal government contracting with Chinese biotechnology companies, two controversial measures that were left out of similar legislation last year. The provisions were included in a compromise defence bill released on Sunday after months of negotiation. Votes …

China now has “a world-class Navy,” retired Rear Admiral Mike Studeman, a former Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, told The Cipher Brief. “It’s not, ‘Hey, we’re going to achieve this in 2049.’ And it’s just not in the numbers, it’s in the quality. These ships are modern by any standard.” The recently commissioned Fujian is the first Chinese …

Late one night in southern Nepal last month, whispers spread of an unusual wedding taking place. Inside a modest home, an 18-year-old girl was about to be wed to a Chinese national nearly twice her age. The match was illegal. Nepal’s minimum age for marriage is 20, and the bride’s youth alarmed onlookers. Police were called and the ceremony in …

An eight-year-old boy in eastern China has ignited a heated online discussion after he chopped his mother’s gold necklace into small pieces and gave them to classmates as gifts. The boy’s unusual act, which was only discovered after the month it was carried out, left his mother angry and amused while his father beat him as a punishment because they …

Fears of a new conflict have flared once again after China was accused of an “extremely regrettable” and “dangerous” act. Japan and Australia have demanded “strict preventive measures” after Chinese military aircraft reportedly locked radar onto Japanese fighter jets near Okinawa. It appears that the fallout between Japan and China is continuing to escalate, as just a month ago Japan’s …

Ground has quite literally been broken on a Chinese-funded project to modernise the Tanzania-Zambia railway after years of negotiations, amid intensifying “corridor wars” as major powers compete to shape transport and trade networks across not just Africa but also Eurasia and beyond. The US$1.4 billion upgrade will restore the 1,860km railway, known as Tazara, a vital corridor linking Zambia’s Copperbelt …

Known as ‘death by a thousand cuts’ or ‘slow slicing’, this chilling method of execution was used in China, and the name barely scratches the surface of the horrors it entailed. Until its prohibition in 1905, criminals across China, Vietnam, and Korea could be sentenced to Lingchi, a form of torture resulting in a slow and agonising  death. Convicts would …

Chinese medical experts have created an ultra-efficient stem cell approach to Parkinson’s disease, raising prospects for treatment for a condition for which there is no known cure. While researchers around the world are exploring stem cell therapies to replenish lost dopaminergic neurons, the team of neurology specialist Shi Jiong at the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and …

An AI image creator startup left its database unsecured, exposing more than a million images and videos its users had created—the “overwhelming majority” of which depicted nudes and even nude images of children. A US inspector general report released its official determination that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put military personnel at risk through his negligence in the SignalGate scandal, but …