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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Is Huang Yanling (a Wuhan virology researcher) the world's first COVID-19 patient?
The Jerusalem Post wrote in Jan 2021
A prominent scientist from the city of Wuhan in China, who has received the title "the world's first COVID-19 patient," has been missing for a year now.
According to various reports, Huang Yanling was the first…
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Are Falun Gong members killed and their organs harvested?
Documentaries like Hard To Believe and Human Harvest make the case that prisoners charged with being members of religious organisations not sanctioned by the Communist Party are killed for their organs.
Organisations wanting to raise awareness cite…
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Are there more English speaking people in China than in the USA?
I have heard there are more Chinese who speak English than there are Americans who speak English. Is this true?
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Did a Chinese farmer spend 16 years learning law so he could sue a chemical company?
According to this meme, a chinese farmer spent 16 years preparing for and ultimately winning a lawsuit against local energy company Qigua Group.
Now I've been digging around a bit and found several references to this story. But all of them refer…
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Does China have motorways with 50 lanes, or at least with 20?
An article from the Daily Mail reports about a giant traffic jam near Beijing, China, in the aftermath of 2015's national holiday week.
Several times, the article insinuates at least a section of the motorway has as many as 50 lanes:
No end in…
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Did ancient Chinese frontline troops decapitate themselves to scare their foes?
From Wikipedia's page on King Goujian of Yue, a king in Ancient China (~500BCE):
King Goujian's army was known for scaring its enemies before battle by forcing its front line, composed of criminals sentenced to death, to commit suicide by…
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Did pills from China seized in South Korea contain the powdered flesh of dead babies?
According to CBS news (May 7, 2012) South Korea cracks down on human flesh capsules from China
(AP) SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled
drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some
people…
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Did (Does?) the Shaolin Wooden Men labyrinth exist?
It is mentioned in nearly every fiction on Shaolin Temple, but did it really exist? Wikipedia didn't mention it at all the last time I read, so I assume it's all fiction. But I haven't had a chance to read any serious literature on the Shaolin yet.…
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Did the US government spend millions of dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly?
According to this site, "Washington is spending $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job." Is this true, and, if so, what program are they referencing?
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Are these suppliers providing Macbook Pros for only US$230?
After requesting some quotes on computers in China-based global trade site Ali Baba, a friend of mine was bombarded with offers via email.
You can see an example in the image bellow.
The prices are too good to be true.
Is it a scam?
Can a Macbook…
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Does China receive billions of dollars of foreign aid and special WTO status for being a "developing country"?
According to this video, "China Just Lost the Space Race!",
China is a so called "developing country" which has for decades been receiving billions of dollars of foreign aid and special trade status in the World Trade Organization because it's just…
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In February 2020, did Tencent release accurate statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus that were 10 times the official figures?
Taiwan News reported the following on February 5:
As many experts question the veracity of China's statistics for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Tencent over the weekend seems to have inadvertently released what is potentially the actual number of…
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Is Huawei the front for a Chinese espionage attempt?
There are a lot of rumors and claims being made that products manufactured by Huawei act suspiciously or in a non-standard way in order to send information "back home" or to facilitate unauthorized access. The more general claim is that Huawei is…
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Do loopholes in the Great Wall face the China side?
There is a pseudoscientific theory popularized by Russian authors Fomenko and Nosovsky which, among other things, claims that the Great Wall of China had been built by peoples living to the north of it who were more advanced than the Chinese at the…
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Does breathing Beijing's air for one hour reduce life expectancy by 20 minutes?
I've just listened to this claim by a BBC journalist in Beijing:
A recent study showed that even breathing this kind of air for an hour can reduce a person's life expectancy by 20 minutes.
This seems almost absurd. Is it based on evidence?
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