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Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...

Two recent waves of purges — the first beginning in 2023 and ending in the middle of last year and the second beginning in ...

They are blamed for a dozen high-level assassinations, over two hundred suicide attacks, and its war against the government has cost more than seventy thousand lives. In May 2009, the Sri Lankan ...

Chinese cyber troops are waging a silent but aggressive “shadow war” in Philippine cyberspace, using social media to manipulate public discourse, spread disinformation, and suppress critical ...

On March 5, China escalated rhetoric in response to U.S. tariffs, announcing that the country is prepared to fight America in “any other type of war” and that “we’re ready to fight till ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

“If the U.S. insists on waging a tariff war, trade war, or any other kind of war, China will fight till the end,” he told reporters.

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.

and by the US just after World War II. So the Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium will reinforce Chinese dominance of global manufacturing, which has already reached historic levels. There’s a ...