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Hainan offers duty-free import on most products, and adds a 30% local value requirement for tariff-free access to mainland China.
Hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand are linked to Chinese-Cambodian funds that have corrupted Thailand’s elite.
In 1958, thousands were mobilised to build a secret city called 404 in the Gobi Desert, enduring brutal sandstorms and living in makeshift shelters.
Founded major publications, including Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, shaping American journalism and pioneering a multimedia corporation.
Tensions between the Soviet Union and China escalated in the 1960s, culminating in a seven-month border conflict in 1969
Escaped Communist China aged 12 by fishing boat and rose from factory worker to build a garment empire.
Countries vary in capability, goods vary in complexity, and capability growth depends on patterns of specialisation.
Blue Willow china is a classic tableware pattern featuring a transfer-printed design inspired by Chinese art, depicting a serene outdoor setting with consistent elements across various porcelain items.
DeepSeek did not bypass export restrictions; instead, they optimised their chips for maximum memory efficiency, and their well-optimised low-level code was not limited by chip capacity.
Chairman Mao promoted Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for political reasons, despite not believing in its effectiveness or using it personally.
A cyberattack linked to the Chinese government targeted U.S. broadband providers' networks.
The rice theory suggests that cultures in areas where paddy rice farming is prevalent tend to be more collectivist due to the high labor demands and need for cooperation that rice cultivation requires.
In 1957, he reportedly suggested to a Yugoslav visitor that China’s vast territory and large population could withstand significant losses.
Niall Ferguson attempts to explain why the West led the world in recent centuries, and what this could mean for the future.
A potential war over Taiwan could cost approximately $10 trillion, equating to 10% of global GDP, far exceeding the economic impacts of the Ukraine war, Covid pandemic, and Global Financial Crisis.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s nuclear arsenal was slightly over 200 warheads.
Chinese food in the West is often Cantonese due to early Chinese immigration during a time when Western palates were conservative.
Henry George was a prominent Gilded Age economist whose book ‘Progress and Poverty’ influenced Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China. Sun’s political philosophy, the Three Principles of the People, especially the principle of mínshēng, reflected Georgist ideas.
At the end of the Korean War, only a third of Chinese POWs returned to Communist China; the majority went to Nationalist Taiwan, marking a propaganda achievement.
By their own measures, the Chinese Communist Party has enslaved at least 2.6 million Uyghurs.
To stimulate the economy. Also: ⅕ of apartments in urban China are unoccupied.
Arm has a lot of risk in China. Most interesting is an ongoing power struggle with their fired China CEO.
Totalitarianism aims to eliminate free thought, transforming citizens into an “unthinking machine.” It doesn’t merely seek compliance, but rather seeks to break the will of individuals until resistance is impossible.
In the media, we hear many competitive narratives about the evolving state of global power. We are entering a multi-polar world; China is surpassing the States; Europe will be a superpower; India is going to roar passed China. I thought it would be helpful to take a look at the GDP data to see what it tells us.