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News Headlines May 8, 2015: Tesla Receives $800 Million in Orders for Battery, UK Opposition Party Leaders Resign, Putin Fires Generals
Chinese president arrives in Russia, meets with Putin from Russia Today Tesla’s Battery Receives $800 million in Orders Leaders of Opposition UK Parties Resign in Wake of Tory Victory United Nations Inspectors Discover VX and Sarin Gas at Location in Syria Water with Potential for Life Found on Saturn’s Moon, Enceladus Vietnamese Mail Order Bride […]
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Year One: PRC Premier Xi Jinping’s Leadership
Following a routine trip to a retirement home in Beijing, Xi Jinping’s celebrity has been enough to cause people to make pilgrimages to the location in Sijiqing and trace the “presidential route” that the Premier of the world’s second largest economy took when he visited the pensioners living there. It is expected that some 7,000 […]
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Something Special in the Air? Rumblings of a Purge from Beijing, PRC
In the wake of the DPRK’s Jang Song-thaek’s purge, reports have emerged that People’s Republic of China security chief Zhou Yongkang may be under investigation for corruption charges. Until his retirement last year, Zhou was a member of the PRC’s Politburo Standing Committee and exercised great power in Sichuan province, managing the oil revenues and […]
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People’s Republic of China Cracks Down on Government Extravagance
Following public outcry over extravagant government buildings, the People’s Republic of China has ordered a halt to new construction and officially moved forward with plans to curtail government excess in the future. Among the most egregious examples: Chengxing County Government Building ($97.7 million), Chengdu City Government Building ($195.5 million), Harbin City Government Building ($293 million),Shunde […]
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North Korea and the Opportunity for a Chinese-Led Solution
Often the People’s Republic of China takes a lenient stance towards its ally the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is why it was surprising that China signed a UNSC resolution condemning North Korea’s missile tests and authorizing the imposition of further sanctions on the regime in Pyongyang. China’s willingness to rein in its […]
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Protestors in Guangzhou Decry the People’s Republic of China’s Strict Censorship Laws
Protests in the Chinese state of Guangzhou have erupted after a New Year’s editorial in the newspaper Southern Weekend was censored and transformed into a more pro-Communist Party of China message than the reformist manifesto it was prior to censorship. The editorial apparently exhorted the government in Beijing to enforce the rights guaranteed to the Chinese […]
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Xi Jinping: World Awaits Official Announcement of Ascendancy, Raises Questions About Future Direction of the World’s Second Largest Economy
With the beginning of the 18th National Congress of the People’s Republic of China yesterday, the world awaits the official announcement of Xi Jinping’s ascendancy to the leadership of the Politburo’s Standing Committee, as is widely expected. The question of who will be joining Xi Jinping at the top is what presently concerns most China […]
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The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: Japan and China on the Brink?
Could Japan and China go to war over something as small as the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands? Al Jazeera explores this question in the above video documentary. Background China’s Future Leader Warns Japan Over the Senkaku Islands Dispute Riots in China [Al Jazeera]
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China’s Future Leader Warns Japan Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute
The future leader of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has warned Japan that it should respect China’s territorial sovereignty with regard to the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. After days of protest in the Chinese capital of Beijing and the dispatching of monitoring ships by the PRC navy, China’s future leader […]
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