Backlink: THE BL The U.S. ambassador lined up in Shanghai for a nucleic acid test, sparking lively discussion, with netizens wondering: Has the Shanghai mayor ever lined up for a nucleic acid test? NetEase reported that Burns took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai on August 31. This is his first official visit to Shanghai after […]
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Backlink: THE BL In the past few days, an article titled “The Research Group of the Chinese Academy of History: New Explorations on the Problem of “Seclusion and Lockdown” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has become popular on the Internet. It is said that it is a signal for Xi Jinping to reverse the car […]
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Backlink: REUTERS The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have affected 33 million people and […]
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Backlink: THE BL The list of books and artists banned by the Chinese regime continues to grow. On Aug. 29, a media outlet reported that several schools received a new list of prohibited books sent to students’ parents. The list includes the works of the cartoonist Guo Jingxiong, the Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai and the writer […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS The Ministry of National Defense said Friday (Sept. 2) it had moved anti-drone guns to the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu following several incidents with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) believed to have flown in from China. […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA India on Friday commissioned the INS Vikrant, its first indigenous aircraft carrier, marking a milestone in its push to reduce its military’s reliance on foreign imports as tensions with China simmer. The 262-meter-long ship, which can accommodate up to 30 fighter jets, cost about 200 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) to build, […]
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Backlink: LIVE MINT Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country about two months ago during the nation’s worst-ever economic crisis situation, returned home from Thailand on Friday, according to news agency PTI. Rajapaksa fled the country on July 13 after protestors in Sri Lanka demanded his resignation and stormed the President’s House in […]
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Backlink: TAIWAN NEWS UMC founder Robert Tsao labels Chinese propaganda as ‘nonsense’. Tsao, the founder of the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), called a press conference to show his national ID card, saying he had renounced his Singaporean citizenship for Taiwanese citizenship. He said he would stay in Taiwan to defend […]
Backlink: THE BL On July 7, CCTV reported that the construction of the main route of the South-North Water Diversion project has begun in Danjiangkou Town, Hubei Province. This project aims to divert water from the Yangtze river from the Three Gorges Dam into the Han Jiang River – a major tributary of the Yangtze. This […]
Backlink: VOA NEWS In a statement, Chengdu city officials said city residents must “stay home in principle” from 6 p.m. Thursday, while non-essential employees were asked to work from home to combat a new wave of infections. Households will be allowed to send one person per day to shop for necessities, provided they can […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on […]
Backlink: THE BL According to the accounts of a former policeman, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) security forces created a so-called “Tough Qigong Squad,” whose members were trained differently. They were forced to endure torture and all kinds of ruthless practices with the aim of forming “strong men” who would be in charge of […]
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Backlink: THE BL The international scientific journal “New Scientist” reported on August 23rd that the heat wave in China was the worst recorded in human history. Although the heatwave has begun to ease, most farmers along the Yangtze River fear the damage from the extreme weather will be severe. Some economists said the affected […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Colorado River Basin meanders through seven U.S. states and supplies water to Lake Powell in the Upper Basin and Lake Mead in the Lower Basin. In turn, these reservoirs deliver water and power to millions of Americans. Pointedly, these drops threaten hydropower generation and municipal water needs for 40 million […]
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