Populous eastern Asian nation which has undergone a myriad of changes over the years, but remains one of the oldest civilizations in the world.
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Did Donald Trump say that "global warming was a hoax invented by the Chinese"?
In the Presidential debate of 26th September, Hillary Clinton claimed that "Donald Trump said that global warming was a hoax invented by the Chinese" . Trump replied several times "I did not say that".
Did he say (or write) that?
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Have China and India more than doubled carbon emissions since 2000 while U.S. emissions have fallen?
The following meme has been shared circa Dec 2019 on social media and several blogs:
The text reads:
China's Carbon Emission Change Since 2000: +208%
India's Carbon Emission Change Since 2000: +155%
United States's Carbon Emission Change Since…
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Can Chinese people read the literature of 2,500 years ago as easily as yesterday's newspapers
Bill Bryson in his book The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way, on page 110, writes:
An equally useful advantage of written Chinese is that people can read the literature of 2,500 years ago as easly as yesterday's newspapers, even…
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Were COVID-19 patients in Wuhan welded into their apartments to enforce the lockdown?
The Sun ran an article in Feburary 2020 covering viral social media videos purportedly showing citizens in Wuhan having their apartment doors welded shut during the COVID-19 lockdown. The wording of the article implies (without fully stating) that…
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Did the Wuhan Institute of Virology engage in coronavirus gain-of-function research?
Hannity said on Foxnews:
The Wuhan facility was experimenting with gain of function with
coronaviruses
NewsMedical defines the term "gain of function research" as:
Gain-of-function research refers to the serial passaging of
microorganisms to…
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Do 1.4 million Chinese people die each year because of air pollution?
This claim is made in an article published on december 18th on the online version of the French newspaper Le Monde.
Des études scientifiques ont estimé que près de 1,4 million de Chinois meurent chaque année, directement ou indirectement, de la…
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Does China control 85% of the supply of rare metals used in lithium batteries?
A selected letter in The Guardian talking about electric vehicles claims:
The rare metals in lithium batteries are produced only in inconvenient places. More than 85% of the world’s supply comes from China. How dependent will that make us upon…
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Do Chinese drivers intentionally hit to kill pedestrians (after injuring them)?
Disclaimer: the article actually contains a gruesome enumeration of cases, you might wish not to read it.
According to Slate the Chinese law is:
should you hurt someone (with a car?), you will provide for their care until death
should you kill…
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Did GitHub collaborate with Chinese authorities to remove the “#2020 nCov memory” page on GitHub?
The #2020 nCov memory page [former URL] was a GitHub page. Qz explains:
The project, which was started by seven volunteers based around the world, chronicles and collects personal narratives and Chinese news reports on the disease. “The purpose of…
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Are there more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people total in the U.S.?
This claim was made popular by being said in the movie The Social Network. It exactly says:
Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China
than there are people of any kind living in the United States?
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Was the virus which causes COVID-19 made in a Chinese lab?
This idea was discussed in the Washington Times
(no longer available at the original site: on archive.org.
The article discusses whether SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) could have been made in a Chinese bio-weapon lab:
Dany Shoham, a…
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Are 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities put into political camps?
Reuters:
Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs and
Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for
indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang…
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Did Chinese school textbook maps (c. 1951) "depict China as stretching even into the central Asian republics"?
In Marshall (Prisoners of Geography, 2015) writes:
In 1951, China annexed Tibet (another vast non-Han territory) and by then Chinese school textbook maps began to depict China as stretching even into the central Asian republics.
Is the claim (in…
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Were the families of the protesters killed during the Tiananmen Square Massacre billed for the bullets used?
The History Channel documentary series Declassified episode Tiananmen Square features this quote:
Is there any known record of the families being invoiced for either:
the costs associated with breaking up the protests; or
a 'Bullet Fee' for the…
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Did China shut down a port for one COVID-19 case and did this closure have a bigger impact than the blocking of the Suez canal?
Journalist Fabian Kretschmer claimed in a DW interview (at 1m56):
For every case you have to shut down a factory, you have to shut down a port. In May, for example, they had to shut down the Yantian port near Shenzen, and that was basically the…
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