China’s Social Credit System

BEIJING: China held its first classical music festival since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, featuring musicians from the former epicentre of Wuhan in an attempt to aid in the psychological and emotional healing process.Zou Ye, a composer from the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected late…

Reconstruction of M. pentelicus from Shuitangba by Mauricio Antón. Credit: Mauricio Antón Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, are about 6.4 million years old, indicate monkeys existed in Asia at the same time as apes, and are probably the ancestors of some of the…

(Source: CBS Sports) After spending the past season in China with the Beijing Ducks, former NBA Champion Jeremy Lin announced earlier that he will not return to China in the upcoming season and will bid for an opportunity to return to the NBA. Speaking to his fans on his personal…

Police say the group is suspected of providing the boat and funds to help the 12 activists who were trying to get to Taiwan.Police in Hong Kong said on Saturday that they had arrested nine people who were suspected of helping the 12 residents detained by the mainland authorities after…

Yang Hengjun disappeared after arriving in Guangzhou in January 2019 and has not been allowed to see his family.Australian writer Yang Hengjun is to face trial in Beijing on an espionage charge, having been detained in China with no access to his family since January 2019, friends said on Saturday.…

Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Aakash Jhaveri) It’s no secret that the past year has been tough for Huawei. While it continues to manoeuvre past hurdles and claim growth, the picture might not be as rosy as it seems. A new report claims that Huawei is actually considering selling…

Home News Appliances (Image credit: Medium) The US government, it is said, is directly appealing to many techno companies, especially those Taiwan to cut their ties to China. Among the companies under pressure to move out of China are suppliers to Apple and Samsung. And these companies are typically moving…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being used to try to cure a host of diseases and raise better crops and…

The U.S. is "leading the world in economic recovery," President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday on Twitter, a declaration that economists were swift to rebuff."It is tenuous, at best," Nick Mazing, director of research at the data provider Sentieo, said in an email.Several measures of economic recovery show that the U.S.…

In a recent piece for Human Events, I argued that true Marxism, far from being dead, is alive and well in today’s United States, and progressing along the path Marx prescribed it would back in the mid 1800’s. I further argued that because Marx was clearly wrong in his fundamental…