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Mines, magnets and Mao: How China built its global rare earth dominance
Low environmental standards helped China become the world's low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...
The Print6d
China should look for Mao Zedong’s reincarnation, not Dalai Lama’s: Sikyong Penpa Tsering
Penpa Tsering, the head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) or ‘Sikyong’, on Friday hit back at the Chinese government’s persistent claim to the next Dalai Lama and said the government should ...
China’s Rare Earth Origin Story, Explained
Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...
The Party’s Interests Come First — the political upbringing of Xi Jinping
The first biography in English of China’s president’s father highlights how even reformers bow to state ideology ...
Manila Standard1dOpinion
Arbitration’s 10-year damage
"The Philippine proxies are only hammering away at China, which exposes the targeted anti-China US agenda behind them" The ...
China's Disappearing Generals Put Questions Over Xi's Grip
China's Central Military Commission is its smallest in decades highlighting the personalization of Xi Jinping's control even ...
Monopoly in the making: How China quietly built a global rare earth dominance over decades
China quietly built a near-monopoly in rare earth metals through decades of strategic investment, innovation, and state-led ...
India Today on MSN5d
'Panchen Lama has no influence in Tibet' says Tibet government-in-exile head
In an exclusive interview with India Today Global, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration, ...
Foreign Affairs3d
The Fantasy of a Grand Bargain Between America and China
Even today, in the throes of a norm-busting trade war with China, there is talk of some kind of leader-to-leader grand ...
At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing: his reincarnation
For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...
Unlike Zohran Mamdani, most Dems want prosperity — not class warfare
Mamdani’s own platform may seem more anodyne, but it is a distilled sampler of socialism’s greatest failures: nationalized ...
China Digital Times6d
Harbinger of History - China Digital Space
Pieces by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other Party leaders argue in favor of liberal democracy, human rights and personal freedoms, and even admiration for the United States.