Backlink: THE BL On October 1 – China’s National Day – the streets of Beijing, especially the areas around Tiananmen Square were heavily guarded with plainclothes police everywhere. Some netizens discovered a strange sight: the Beijing hotel a short distance from Tiananmen Square was completely dark, the road in front of the Forbidden City was also dark. […]
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Backlink: THE BL From beef skewers, steak, tofu skin, to sweets such as steam buns, soy milk and bubble tea. According to Chinese blogger Xin Jifei, any meal can be made with all kinds of strange ingredients nowadays. Xin is giving his viewers a craving for popular street food recipes that he says are […]
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Backlink: THE BL In view of the deep fall of the yuan, the People’s Bank of China has reportedly told the country’s main state-owned banks to prepare to get rid of their dollar holdings and exchange them for offshore yuan. […]
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Backlink: THE BL In July, a vast parcel of agricultural land in Levy County, Florida, was acquired by a company with strong ties to the Chinese military. They plan to set up an experimental primate laboratory, causing great concern in the country. The Beijing-based JOINN laboratory has purchased 1,400 acres, for $5.5 million, in the small […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES Hundreds of students enrolled at China’s Zhengzhou University in the capital of Henan Province gathered in protest of new lockdowns enacted across school grounds. Crowds were seen chanting across campus, on balconies and in dormitories — demanding an end to the country’s prolonged lockdowns, and calling for the “restoration of basic human dignity.” […]
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Backlink: THE BL China has recently witnessed unprecedented capital outflow including foreign investment and people’s savings. The liquidity crisis is spreading across China, depositors’ protests have become a hot topic despite repression from authorities. At this point, the digital yuan (e-CNY) is probably the Chinese Communist Party’s perfect solution in preventing those customers from […]
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Backlink: THE BL Prices of commodities in China sharply dropped as the country’s currency yuan depreciated against the dollar to the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis and fear about China’s growth. Base metals, including tin, copper, and aluminum traded in Shanghai, suffered heavy losses on Monday. […]
Backlink: LIVE SCIENCE The “first-of-its-kind” achievement paves the way for cloning endangered species. A Chinese pet-cloning company has announced the birth of the world’s first cloned Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), which was carried to term by an unlikely surrogate mother — a beagle. […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Bleak overall outlook for sector as sales tumble and losses mount. A select group of state-backed Chinese property developers are emerging as relative “winners” in the crisis engulfing the country’s real estate sector, as they take advantage of private rivals’ distress. […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Sri Lanka falls into debt crisis while Pakistan is strapped for cash. China’s once-unstoppable Belt and Road Initiative has hit a speed bump, with many loans to emerging economies falling into repayment problems, forcing Beijing to tread lightly on lending. […]
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Backlink: THE BL Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, has been in lockdown for more than a month, making life very hard for the people there. However, the pandemic has not stopped. A resident said the government put people under centralized isolation in a large area. The isolated environment was in poor conditions, and people got cross […]
Backlink: THE BL On the afternoon of September 22, the topic “unidentified flying objects (UFOs) emitting giant light beams filmed in many places in Xinjiang” appeared on Baidu’s hot searches. The video shows the UFO casting a giant white light. From the evening of September 21 to the early morning of September 22, residents of Karamay, Altay […]
Backlink: THE BL On September 21, the CCP held a seminar on defense and military reform in Beijing. According to Tass Russian News Agency, at the meeting, Xi Jinping said, “It is imperative to conscientiously summarize and apply successful experience in reforms, to master new situations and understand the requirements of the tasks, to focus on preparing for […]
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Backlink: THE BL In August alone, China had to deal with a series of calamities, which affected dozens of millions of people. As The Paper reported, China’s Ministry of Emergency Management held a press conference on September 16. The ministry’s spokesman Shen Zhanli pointed out that the country faced numerous natural disasters last month. […]
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