Healthcare facilities under strain with daily records set for infections. Motorcyclists passing a mural promoting awareness of the Covid-19 outbreak in Jakarta. The country remains the worst hit in South-east Asia with the number of confirmed cases at 549,508 as … Read More
In October, 2,153 Japanese people committed suicide – a number that exceeds the country’s total Covid-19 toll which stood at 2,087 for the entire year to date. Japan has witnessed a sharp surge in suicides, mostly among women, amid the … Read More
Though technologically backward for the most part—in the event of war—the North Koreans could inflict severe damage to South Korea and the U.S. forces stationed on the peninsula. Here’s What You Need To Remember: As Washington ratchets up the pressure on … Read More
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian attends a news conference in Beijing, China. File/Reuters China will respond to the reported visit of a US Navy admiral to Taiwan and firmly opposes any military relations between Taipei and Washington, China’s Foreign … Read More
While Beijing may like to seize Taiwan by any means, it may not actually think the costs of doing so are worth it. Are the United States and China truly on the brink of war over Taiwan? Or could one simply … Read More
Martial signaling notwithstanding, the likelihood that Beijing is about to embark on a major military endeavor in the Taiwan Strait remains fairly low. Here’s What You Need to Remember: Although Beijing is undoubtedly committed to further widening the military imbalance in … Read More
How China rents the U.S. media—and its politicians. The polls told America Joe Biden would win by 8 points. 10 points! The media used those polls as psychological operations to dispirit Donald Trump’s supporters into believing we were alone, destined to defeat, and … Read More
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement was signed yesterday, promising to set trading standards for 10 Southeast Asian countries plus China, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. The deal is a strategic, but mostly symbolic win for China. … Read More
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says Australia is considering taking China to the World Trade Organisation as trade tensions continue to boil over. Earlier in the year, China introduced an 80 percent tariff on Australian barley. “There is a pattern of … Read More
Source: Pixabay Beijing’s 2035 vision for “basic socialist modernization” includes few specific targets and did not specifically mention the United States. China’s total economic size and per capita income “will climb to a new big level” by 2035, with significant … Read More