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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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Were masks imported to China in Jan-Feb resold to Mexico at 20-30 times the price in March?

Global News reports In March, the masks sold to China in January and February were being sold back to Mexico at 20 to 30 times the price, according to [Jorge] Guajardo [Mexico’s former ambassador to Beijing]. There doesn't seem to be much doubt…
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Did Chinese users spend 277.4 trillion yuan ($41.51 trillion) on mobile payments in 2018?

According to an article on Entepreneur.com: China had 1.2 billion unique mobile subscribers by the end of last year, making it the largest mobile market in the world. This widespread mobile ecosystem has resulted in a steep growth in mobile…
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Is forced organ donation widespread in China? (强制摘取犯器官的行为已经实施了?)

On December 10, 2018, Sir Geoffrey Nice made the following statement: The Tribunal’s members are all certain – unanimously, and sure beyond reasonable doubt – that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practised for…
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Did Pakistan ever request China to market JF-17s to Bangladesh?

Pakistan requests JF-17 sale to Bangladesh BDMiIitary.com learnt that the Pakistani authorities have requested their Chinese partners to sell JF-17 Thunder light combat aircraft to the Bangladesh Air Force in an effort to decrease production costs…
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Is Falun Gong worse for its practitioners and society than other religions like Christianity?

EDIT: after too broad closure, split into: Have many Falun Gong practitioners forgone medical treatment and died of treatable causes as a result? The Chinese government has made lots of publicity against Falun Gong, but they have a political…
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Is Iraq buying JF-17 Block-3 aircraft from Pakistan/China?

Is Iraq buying JF-17 aircraft? Iraq orders 12 JF-17 fighter jets from Pakistan In recent developments, Iraq has decided to purchase 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III fighter jets from Pakistan. According to reports, the defense deal was approved by both…
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Did China steal technology from the USA to make their J-20?

The Chengdu J-20 is a Chinese fighter aircraft. Wikipedia reports that The combination of an integrated targeting pod with spherically situated passive-optical tracking system is reported similar to the design concept of Lockheed Martin F-35's…
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Does boiling water with solid silver kill germs?

I was in China recently, and the tour guide mentioned that in some parts of China, the water quality is not good (due to pollution). To get around this problem, some locals used solid silver and boiled it together with water, so that "germs in the…
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Is Pakistan or China funding and assisting terrorist insurgents in Afghanistan?

According to Amrullah Saleh, Afghan State Minister for Security Reforms: we are fighting a terrorist group sponsored and assisted by a nuclear state sitting next to us Afghanistan has borders with two nuclear states, Pakistan & China. A Guardian…
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Is the intentional homicide rate in China extremely low?

I've found some sources that show China has a relatively low intentional homicide rate. For example: Wikipedia's List of countries by intentional homicide rate cites the UN Office on Drugs and crime to say that China's intentional homicide rate is…
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Was the "Chinese spy balloon" a project of the University of Fairbanks to study the weather above the North Pole?

When asked about his take on the balloon shot down that the US government say was a Chinese spy balloon, Seymour Hersh says it was more likely a [federally funded] project of the University of Fairbanks, to study the weather above the North Pole.…
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Did the Chinese government kill Falun Gong practitioners for their organs?

Did the Chinese government kill Falun Gong practitioners for their organs? https://www.healtheuropa.eu/forced-organ-harvesting-they-kill-innocent-people-for-their-organs/97306/ Articles such as these claim that the Chinese government is doing so,…
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Did COVID-19 originate in the US Army and brought to China in the Military World Games?

In the past weeks theories about the US Army creating and bringing COVID-19 to China during the Military World Games (Wuhan, October 2019) have arisen. This is not the first time claims that the virus originated in the United States surface (Zhao…
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Did China choose to finance the US after the 2008 crisis?

In today's edition of Le Monde there is an article about the increasing quantity of money in the world, and the problems or benefits that this might yield. In the introduction to the article the authors state that, in contrast to now, the world had…
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Does China display the hammer and sickle above their domestic Gucci outlets?

This post on Dec 1, 2021 by user @ItsMaoCena has the caption, This Gucci manager be panicking every time they open their shop. As it should be. China loves metaphors, and placing the ☭ ABOVE the Gucci logo is a very clear metaphor for the power…
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