Since the day the world first lay its eyes on the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube in Beijing, people have been obsessed with creating the perfect stadium, to hold international sporting events. The trend is understandable though with television making these grand engineering and designing marvels appear as symbols of national pride, creativity and capability. [...]

The vaccine manufactured by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd. has received approval from the State Food and Drug Administration’s drug registration department in China. The World Health Organization has stated that the results of clinical trials have been encouraging. The WHO had access to test results and has declared that there is no reason to doubt [...]

As it did in Tibet, the Chinese leadership is repressing the disturbances hardly in Xinjiang. The Muslims Uigures of the area are feeling degraded and stolen of their culture while they suffer in their birthplace under the domain of Han Chinese ethnicity.
Xinjiang (”new border”, in Chinese) is an enormous area that links China to Central [...]

According to Amnesty International, 1,718 people were executed in China in 2008. At least 7,003 face the death sentence. In a secretive regime such as China, nobody really knows if these figures are accurate. Most of these executions were done through the firing squad. There are plans, however, to completely eradicate the use of firing [...]

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’
On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled the tragic square with a [...]

China and Taiwan parted ways in 1949, but China still regards the island nation as part of its territory. Here lies the problem that has been festering for 60 years. To stake its claim and reiterate its position, China has threatened war against Taiwan several times in the past. As far as China is concerned, [...]

A group of prominent Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. talked secretly with China on matters about climate change over the recent months. The visit to China, attended by people who now occupy positions in the Obama government, produced a draft document in March that was meant to be submitted to the White House.
Although the [...]

Beijing has reacted to allegations that China is involved in a global cyber espionage network, claiming that those who concocted these ‘fabricated lies’ have the mentality of the Cold War. These statements were a response by the Chinese government to a report by Canadian researchers claiming the existence of a global cyber espionage network whose [...]

U.S. and China are up against each other in what could be the new Cold War. This is despite their rather functional economic relations. The latest chapter in these two superpowers’ struggle for global hegemony involves the Pentagon’s report that warns about China’s military rise.
The report, currently causing considerable diplomatic friction between Washington and Beijing, [...]

China first demonstrated their conviction to control pollution and fog before Olympics by taking all kinds of measures right from shutting down polluting industries to keeping vehicles off the street. Now they have gone a step ahead and manipulated the very weather by seeding clouds by spraying chemicals. The result though was snowfall instead of [...]