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‘Our parents did all the hard work. We don’t have to’: China’s seaside haven for the ‘lying flat’ generation

With its magnificently tranquil art gallery, its ‘lonely library’ and its pointy white chapel, Aranya is a blissful oasis for burnt-out urbanites – and architecture firms are now clambering to build there

The Guardian - UK

Victims of Communism Day — 2024

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

Reason

Student Movements Are Often Wrong

We shouldn't assume that student political movements necessarily have a just cause. Far from it.

Reason

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Let’s get the sparrows back

Let's bring back the sparrows - their history, decline, and how we can help them thrive again.

The Hindu

‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger

Millions of people of Chinese origin are nationals of countries other than China and they don’t back Beijing.

Al Jazeera

For many Chinese, there are ‘more important things’ than Taiwan unification

Beijing has not ruled out using force to annex Taiwan, but there is little appetite for war among Chinese people.

Al Jazeera

China's Leaders To Set Growth Goals As Economic Woes Mount

China is set to unveil some of its lowest growth targets in decades when top Communist Party officials begin an annual meeting Tuesday, as the world's second largest economy faces dire headwinds.

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Money, power and the peril of courting Chinese nationalism

Nationalism in China has been invoked for political ends and financial gains, but it is also a destructive force.

Al Jazeera

China's Rise Justifies Sale Of US Steel

The United States needs allies like Japan to help manufacture steel. If Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel can join forces to become more productive in their collective operations and scale a competitive steel industry, it will benefit the national security of both nations.

International Business Times

Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City

‘Speak your thoughts loudly and without considering the consequences,’ says the artist.

Al Jazeera

Xi's Corruption Crackdown Targets Embattled Finance Sector

Since rising to power a decade ago, Xi has waged a constant campaign against deep-seated graft that has led to the punishment of at least 4.7 million officials, according to a 2022 report by the state-run Global Times.

International Business Times

Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrés

A new book reveals how two clubs on opposite sides of George Street – and the cold war – played a key role in Australia’s era of espionage

The Guardian - AU

Wild Swans author Jung Chang awarded CBE in New Year Honours for services to literature

Dr Jung Chang has been made a Commander of the British Empire

The Independent UK

China sanctions a US research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang

China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s northwest

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Doctor and self-exiled activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural China dies at 95

Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States

Salon

Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

It's hard to keep track of Kissinger's crimes — but his handling of the Pakistan crisis of 1971 was up there

The Independent UK

Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction

An official menu for a state banquet signed by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong has been auctioned for $275,000

The Guardian - UK

The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy

He shaped a world of superpowers but to those without power he was ruthless. How did one diplomat hold sway for so long?

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The Guardian - UK

Henry Kissinger dies celebrated, but why? His achievements have long since crumbled

He may have overseen the 20th century, but the champion of US power was also a symbol of its dangerous neo-imperialism, says commentator Simon Tisdall

International Business Times

Kissinger, Giant Of Statecraft, Molded Post-war US History

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

WEKU

Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

The Independent UK

Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts 'zero-COVID' after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its strict “zero-COVID” controls, retired architect Zeng Fanzhi is on the road, displaying stark portraits of life under the policy

The Conversation

Dreams of a 'broken up' Russia might turn into a nightmare for the West – and an opportunity for China

Do names on a map matter? When they are in border territories, the answer is probably “yes.”

The Guardian - UK

Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution

Sons denounce mothers, students attack teachers: firsthand accounts from those caught up in Mao’s ruthless ideological purge during the 60s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it

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