Hong Kong: Stop imitating the EU!
4 July 2020
The British government is acting like the EU in its attempt to exert control over Hong Kong – an irony that seems to escape it.
4 July 2020
The British government is acting like the EU in its attempt to exert control over Hong Kong – an irony that seems to escape it.
Boris Johnson has pledged to give three million Hong Kong residents British citizenship – even though Britain quit the former colony more than two decades ago.
The most extraordinary march in human history changed the balance of forces not only in China but also in the world…
24 August 2017
On 16 October 1934, about 100,000 men and women in China’s Red Army broke out of their surrounded soviet base. Their extraordinary year-long march to the other end of China changed not only the balance of forces in China but also the world.
Extracted from poppies, opium is a highly addictive drug, though it can serve as a medicine. By the end of the 17th century, non-medicinal drug use of opium had appeared in China, particularly around the port of Canton (now know as Guangzhou), where most foreign merchants traded.
19 October 2014
The so-called “pro-democracy” demonstrators seeking to occupy central areas of Hong Kong are for the return of Hong Kong as an independent capitalist statelet, severed from mainland China.